Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 5^ 



or acute; upper surface glabrous; length 25 to 5 in. ; breadth 1*2 to 

 2'2 in. ; petiole '3 to '5 in. Panicles both axillary and terminal, ilie 

 former shorter than the leaves or slightly exceeding them, the latter 

 longer, all rather lax, the branchlets divaricating, cymose, and "with a 

 few short, linear, deciduous bractlets. Flowers nearly 1 in. long (in- 

 cluding the stamens). Calyx-tuhe oblong-campanulate or funnel-shaped, 

 densely lepidote-stellate ; the mouth expanded and obscurely 4-toothe.l. 

 Petah obovate-obloBg, blunt, glabrous. Stamens 8, usually equal (four 

 sometimes shorter or obsolete) ; basal processes long, linear, sub-erect. 

 Fruit cylindric-campanulate, sub-glabrous, crowned by the slightly 

 enlarged limb of the calyx, "25 in. long. Blurae, Mus. Bot. I, 36 ( excl. 

 syn. Korth.); Naudin in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XV, 69, tab. 4 fig.; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 528 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVIII, 

 83j tab. VII, fig. 896 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 544 ; 

 Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phau. VII, 557. Melastoma pallida, Jack in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. ZIV, 12 ; DC. Prodr. Ill, 150 ; Wall. Cat. 4049. Bissoclixta 

 ovalifolia and B>^ superha^ Naud. I.e. 76 and 77. D» a^trotricha, Miq. I.e. 

 Suppl. 318. 



In all the proviuces excej^t the Nicobar and Andaman Islands ; 

 eommon. 



The four stamens which [are usuaHy shorter than the other are sometimes 

 obsolete. 



6. DibSOCHJETA GRACILIS, Blume in Flora, 1831, 498. A strag- 

 gling or scan dent shrub ; young branches slender, bluntly 4-angled, 

 the nodes swollen and transversely ridged, minutely scaly like the 

 petioles, leaves and panicles. Leaves 5-nerved (the lateral pair slender), 

 broadly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, rounded at the base and shortly 

 acuminate at- the apex; length 3 to 4*5 in.; breadth 15 to 1*8 in.; 

 petiole '2 to '4 in. Panicles axillary and terminal, the former shorter 

 than, and the latter longer than the leaves, slender, spreading, lax, 

 many-flowered'; bracts few, narrowly oblong, caducous. Floiuers '35 

 in. long, on filiform pedicels longer than themselves. Calyx-tuhe 

 narrowly campanulate, minutely stellate-pubescent, the mouth glabrous, 

 sub-truncate, everted*, and obscurely 4-toothed\ Petals 4, broadly ovate 

 or sub-orbicular, blunt. Stamens 8 ; four large, perfect, rather short, 

 with a broad* truncate 2-pored' apex ; the four imperfect small, narrow 

 all with two erect, filiform flat basal appendages. Fruit sub-globular, 

 crowned by the narrow limb, almost glabrous, "1 to "15 in. in diara. 

 Korthals Verb. Niat. Gesch. Bot. 237 ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, 

 XV, 75 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 526 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 XXVIII, 83, tab. VII, fig. 89c; C. B'. Clai'ke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 II, 544; Gogu. in DC. Mbn. Phan. VIl, 559. Melasioma pacile, Jack 



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