52 Materials for a Flma oj the Malayan Peninsula. 



glabrous, length 3 to 45 in. ; breadth 1 to 1-75 in. ; petiole '15 to '3 in. 

 Panicle solitary, terminal, thickened at the nodes, broadly pyramidal, 

 much branched. Flowers -75 in. long. Calyx-tuhe longer than the 

 pedicel, cylindric-tubular, the mouth not everted but with four linear 

 elongate teeth. Petals 4, broadly lanceolate, blunt. Stamens 8, equal, 

 all perfect, elongate and narrow, the apices much prolonged into a rather 

 thin appendage, the base with two delicate, filiform appendages. Fo-uit 

 ovoid- globose, crowned by the persistent calyx-limb, densely setose- 

 lepidote,- '4 in. in diam.'^ Cogu. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 556. 



JoHOKE ; at the base of Gunong Panti ; King's Collector 197 ; 

 llidley 4185. Distrib. Borneo. 



4. DissoCH-ETA BRACTEATA, Blume in Plora, 1831, 495. Young 

 branches with a transverse ridge at the nodes, petioles and panicles 

 more or less densely clothed with sub-decidaous, rusty, stellate hairs, 

 and the under surfaces of the leaves sparsely so. Leaves membranous, 

 5-nerved (the marginal pair faint), ovate-lanceolate, the base rounded 

 and often sub-cordate, the apex acute or shortly acuminate ; upper 

 surface glabrous, the lower sparsely stellate-hairy ; length 8 to 4*5 in. ; 

 breadth 1*25 in. ; petiole '2 to '3 in. Panicles much bracteate, both 

 axillary and terminal, the former shorter, the latter longer, than the 

 leaves ; the branches few, divaricate. Floivers 1*2 in. long (including the 

 stameus), in cymes at the ends of the branchlets, each subtended by, 

 and while in bud enveloped in, a membranous, obovate, blunt, stellate- 

 pubescent, more or less permanent bract about "5 in. long. Calyx-tuhe 

 twice as long as the pedicels, cylindric-campanulate, the mouth slightly 

 widened and minutely 4-toothed. Petals broadly elliptic, blunt, 

 glabrous. Stamens 8, much curved, long, linear, the base with two long 

 flattened, linear, upward-pointing appendages. Fruit ellipsoid, crowned 

 by the rim of the calyx-tube, '6 in. long. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 529 ; 

 Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXYIII, 84; C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. II, 543 ; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 598. D. hracteosa, Naud. 

 in. Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XV, 76 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. T, pt. I, 527. 

 Melastoma hracteatum, Jack in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV, 9 ; Wall. Cat. 

 4044, partly. 



Penang ; Wallichf Cat. 4044 ; Curtis 2298. Malacca ; Maingay 

 791. Distrib. Borneo, Haviland. 



5. DissocH^TA pallida, Blume in Flora, 1831, 500. A shrubby 

 creeper, 20 to 50 feet long ; yoang branches thickened and with inter- 

 petiolar ridges at the nodes, sparsely covered with minute stellate-hairy 

 scales like the petioles, under surfaces of the leaves and the panicles. 

 Leaves sub-coriaceous, 5-nerved (the lateral pair faint), elliptic-ovate 

 to ovate, the base rounded and sub-cordate, the apex shortly- acuminate 

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