64 Matenah for a Flora of iJie Malayan Teninsula. 



in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV, 14; DC. Prodr. Ill, 149. J/. /aZZaa^, Wall. 

 Cat. 4080. ? M, glauca, Griff. Ic. PL As. 637. M. vacillans, yar. pallens, 

 Blurae, Bijdr. 1074. 



In all the provinces except the NicoLar and Andaman Islands. 

 DiSTRiB. Java, Borneo. 



7. DissocH^TA CELEBicA, Blume, Mus. Bot. I, 36. A slender 

 creeper ; yoang brandies, petioles and under surfaces of the leaves, also 

 the panicles, densely clothed ^ith rusty, scurfy, stellate tomentum. 

 Leaves 3-nerved, membranous, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, the base 

 rounded, the apex shortly acuminate ; upper surface glabrous except the 

 stellate-pubescent midrib ; length 2*5 to 5 in. ; breadth 1 to 2 in. ; petiole 

 •2 to "25 in. Panicles lateral and terminal, the former slightly longer and 

 the lateral several times longer than the leaves, ebracteate, the branches 

 divaricating, the ultimate branches cymose, 3-flovrei'ed. Flowers '3 in. 

 long (including the stamens). Calyx-tuhe oblong-campanulate, slightly 

 "widened and 4-tcothed at the mouth, somewhat longer than the pedicel. 

 Petals 4, broadly oblong, blunt. Stamens 4 ; anthers equal, short, blunt 

 and with no apical appendage, opening by 2 apical pores. Frtiit 

 sub- globular, croTvned by the narrow limb of the calyx, faintly 8-ribbed, 

 sparsely pubescent or sub-glabrous, '15 to '2 in. in diam. C. B. Clarke 

 in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 544; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 561 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 530 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVIII, 83. 

 D. microcarpa, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XV, 72 ; Miq. I.e. 523. 

 J), bancana, Miq. I.e. 529. Melastoma fallax, Wall. Cat. 4050 ; ? Jack 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV, 13. M, ruhiginosum, Wall. Cat. 4052, partly. 



In all the provinces except the Nicobar and Andaman Islands ; 

 common. Disteib. Bangka, Celebes, Borneo. 



Var. contracta^ King. Panicle solitary, terminal, short, condensed, 

 not longer than the leaves. 



Pekak ; King's Collector 2911. 



8. DissocH^TA INTERMEDIA, Blume in Flora, 1831, 493. A some- 

 what slender creeper, resembling D. celehica in its other parts, but 

 with larger flowers ("5 in. long), pointed in bud ; larger fruit ('2 to "25 in. 

 in diam.); calyx-tube with a truncate, toothless mouth; ovate, acute 

 petals, and longer stamens narrowed to and appendiculate at the apex. 

 Blume, Mus. Bot. I, 35, tab. V; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XV, 72 ; 

 Miq.Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 524; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVIII, 

 83, tab. VII, fig. 89 f. ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 544 ; 

 Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 562. Melastoma ruhiginosum^ Wall. Cat. 

 4052 (in part). 



Malacca; Griffith (K.D.) 2287; Eelfer (K.D.) 2286. Penang and 

 SiKGAPORE ; Wallich, Perak ; ScortecMni. Distrib. Java, Borneo. 

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