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cymose, 1- to 3-flowered ; bracts small, caducous. Flowers 1'5 in. long 

 (including the stamens), pedicels much shorter than themselves. 

 Calyx-tube narrowly campanulate or funnel-shaped, the mouth widened 

 and with 4 blunt, triangular teeth, densely stellate-hairy outside. Petals 

 obovate-oblong, blunt, reflexed. Stamens 8; curved, elongate-linear, 

 acuminate, with two bristle-like appendages at the base in front, laci- 

 niate behind. Fruit ellipsoid, succulent, crowned by the enlarged teeth 

 of the calyx-tube. C, B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 543; 

 Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 557. Melastoma^hracteatum, Wall. Cat. 

 4044 (in part). 



Penang; WalUch 4044; Griffith (K.D.) 2268; Maingay (K.D.) 

 788 ; Curtis 740, Malacca ; Wallich, Singapore ; mdlet 213 ; nidley 

 5187. JoHORE ; King's Collector 224. Perak ; Scortechini 235. Distrib. 

 Borneo. 



2. Dissoch^ta punctulata. Hook. fil. ex Triana in Linn. Trans. 

 XXVIII, 83. Young branches thickened but not annulate, clothed like 

 the petioles, under surfaces of the leaves and the inflorescence with 

 minute, rusty scales. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-ovate, the base rounded 

 and not cordate, the apex acute or very shortly acuminate ; 5-nerved, 

 the marginal nerves very slender ; upper surface glabrous ; length 3 to 

 4-5 in. ; breadth '75 to 1-75 in. ; petiole '25 to '4 in. Panicles solitary, 

 terminal, several times longer than the leaves, the branches and 

 branchlets short and the latter cymosely few-flowered, bracts small, 

 linear, deciduous. Flowers '75 in. long (including the stamens), on 

 pedicels shorter than themselves. Calyx-hibe infundibuliform, the 

 mouth with a broad, everted, wavy, obscurely toothed edge, deciduously 

 scaly. Petals 4, ovate, sub-acute, glabrous. Anthers 8, equal, curved, 

 cylindric, attenuated to the 1-pored apex, the base with two long, 

 geniculate, upward-curving, narrow, flattish appendages. Fruit succu- 

 lent, urceoiate, slightly warted, sub-glabrous, crowned by the slightly 

 enlarged mouth of the calyx, "4 in. long. C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. II, 543 ; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 555. 



Malacca; (rrzif/i^^ (K.D.) 2291 ! Maingay 1^2. Singapore; Ridley 

 3918, 4803. Selangore ; Bidley 2015. Johore ; Ridley 3246, 2106. 

 Penang; Walker y etc. 



3. Dissoch^ta hirsuta, Hook. fil. ex Triana Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 XXVIII, 83. A strong creeper with slender branches only slightly 

 thickened at the nodes ; all parts except the upper surfaces of the leaves 

 and the petals densely clothed with deciduous, stellate hairs mixed with 

 long, stiff, spreading, curved hairs. Leaves membranous, lanceolate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, 5-nerved (the lateral pair slender), the base rounded 

 and slightly cordate, the apex shortly acuminate ; upper surface 



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