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acute. Fruit ovoid, '3 in. in diam. Bet. Mag. t. 4321 ; Morren in Ann. 

 See. Hort. Gand. V, 281 ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XV, 291 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, p. 540 ; Triana in Linn. Trans. XXVIII, 87 ; 

 C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. M. Br. Ind. II, 549. Melastoma eximium^ 

 Blume Bijdr. (not of Jack). Melastoma speciostcm, Reinw. ex Blnme, 

 in Flora, 183 J, 516. 



Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 798. Pfnang ; Bullett 203; 

 Curtis 874; King's Collector 1595. Perak ; Wray 3218 ; King's Collector 

 2652. Distrib. Moluccas, Java, Sumatra. 



3. Medinilla heteranthera, King, n. sp. Epipytal and terres- 

 trial; branches slender, smooth, reddish when fresh, drj'iug dark 

 purplish-brown. Leaves of the pairs somewhat uneqnal, ovate-lanceolate 

 to lanceolate, acuminate, the base slightly narrowed, glabrous, 3-nerved ; 

 length 2'5 to 5*25 in. ; breadth 1 to 1*8 in. ; petioles 3 to '8 in. Panicles 

 terminal on the branches, half as long as the leaves, coiymboselj 

 cymose, 5- or 6-flowered, minutely bracteolate. Flowers '75 in. long, 

 their pedicels much shorter. Calyx-tuhe cylindric, the mouth wide and 

 with 4 broad, shallow teeth. Petals 4, ovate-lanceolate, shortly acumi- 

 nate. Stamens 8 ; anthers unequal, the larger four twice as long as 

 the shorter four, all curved, much acuminate and with two tubercles 

 at the base in front, the shorter 4 with a short spur on the connective 

 behind, the larger with no spur. Fruit globular-ovoid, crowned by the 

 wide calyx-limb, '35 in. in diam. 



Perak ; Scortechini 341 ; Ki7ig's Collector, 3291, 3644, 6304, 6904 ; 

 Wray 397 ; at elevations of from 3000 to 4500 feet. 



This resembles M. Horsfieldii, Miq., — a species from Java «ind Borneo— which 

 however has 5-meroas flowers, obovate petals and leaves of thinner textnre. 

 According to Scortechini the petals are waxy white tinged with red and the stamens 

 are yellow. 



Var, latifolia. Leaves broadly elliptic, shortly acuminate, the base 

 cttneate, 25 to 3' 75 in. long and 1'5 to 2 in. broad. 

 Perak; King's Collector ^011 ) Wray 2QQ. 



4. Medinilla venusta. King, n. sp. Epiphytal, 2 to 4 feet long, 

 glabrous; branches stout, with large, scattered tubercles, glabrous. 

 Leaves large, opposite, thinly coriaceous, sessile, elliptic, shortly acumi- 

 nate, narrowed to the base, boldly 3-nerved above the base with often 

 a faint, small, basal, marginal pair ; length. 6 to 9 in. ; breadth 2*75 to 

 4 in. Cymes much shorter than the leaves, laxly umbellate, axillary 

 or from the axils of fallen leaves, about 6-flowered ; the pedicels 

 slender, bibracteolatc at the base. Floivers nearly I in. long. CalyX' 

 tube campanulate, '35 in. long, with a narrow, obscurely 4-toothed limb. 



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