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elongate narrow apices bearing 2 or 3 bristles ; filaments from oae-fourtli 

 to one-half of the length of the linear stamens. Ovary 4i-ano-led, 

 the apex with a truncate cartilaginous rim. Korth. in Yerh. Nat. 

 Gesch. Bot. 252, t. 57 ; Naud. in Ann. So. Nat. Ser. 3, XXV, 332 ; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 5282; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, 559 ; Triana Melast., tab. VI, fig.* 

 73; C.B.Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 541 ; Cogn. in DC. Mou. 

 Phan. VII, 518. Melastoma rotundifoUa, Jack in Trans. Linn. Soe 

 XIV, 11 ; DC. Prodr. Ill, 149. 



Malacca ; Griffith, Maingay. Selangore ; Ridley 7327. Perak • 

 Scortechini, King's GoUector, Wray. Distrib. Burma, Sumatra, Java • 

 common. 



Rather variable as to size of leaves and as to the number of bristles oa their 

 petioles. The teeth of the calyx also vary as to the length of the acuminate apex 

 and as to the number of bristles. 



10. Marumia, Blume. 



Twining shrubs; branches cylindric, thickened at the nodes. 

 Leaves opposite, short-petioled, coriaceous, cordate at the base, 3-nerved 

 from the base besides two submarginal nerves, entire, stellate-tomentose 

 beneath. Cymes axillary; flowers 3-5, large, pedicelled, purple or 

 white. Calyx-tube narrowly campanulate, tomentose (and often bristly 

 or stellate-hairy) ; lobes 4, deep, persistent. Petals 4, obovate. 

 Stamens 8, unequal ; anthers elongate, opening by a single pore • 

 connective of the longer anthers carrying in front two lono* bristles 

 and behind often one or two spurs or several twisted bristles. Ovary 

 at the base (or half its height) adnate to the calyx, 4-celled, densely 

 hairy at the apex ; style filiform ; ovules numerous, placentas axile. 

 Berry ellipsoid, crowned by the calyx-limb. Seeds numerous, oblong- 

 ellipsoid, with glandular scarcely raised dots, raphe slightly excurrent 

 along the whole length of one side. — Distrib. Species 10, Malaya, 

 Borneo and the Philippines. 



Calyx-tube without bristles ... .. ... 1. M. nemorosa. 



Calyx-tube very bristly : — 



Teeth of limb of calyx half as long as the tube, 

 oblong, acute : upper surface of leaves not reti- 

 culate ... ... ... ... 2. M. rhodocarpa. 



Teeth of limb of calyx one-fourth as long as the tube 

 or less, broadly triangular, blunt ; upper surface of 

 leaves much reticulate ... ... ... 3. M. reticulata. 



1. Marumia nemorosa, Blume in Flora XIV, (1831), 505. A 

 straggling climber ; all parts except the upper surfaces of the leaves 

 the petals, stamens and ovaries covered with dense rufous or paJe stellate 



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