62 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Tenini:nla. 



Pelals 4, broadly ovate, acute. Stamens 8 ; anthers equal, linear-lanceo- 

 late, much acuminate, curved, the tubercles at the front of the base 

 as long as the posterior basal spur from the connective. Fruit 

 unknown. 



Perak; King's Collector 2390. 



5. Medixilla Hasseltit, Blume in Flora, 1831, p. 513. Epiphytal 

 on trees, 3 or 4 feet high ; branches slender, terete, pale, more or less 

 prominently warted (the warts black). Leaves opposite, coriaceous, 

 oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed to the rounded base, 8-nerved, 

 ■with sometimes a faint, additional lateral pair ; length 4*5 to 5*5 in. ; 

 breadth 1*25 to 1'75 in; petioles '15 to '35 in. Cymes axillary or from 

 the axils of fallen leaves, less than half as long as the leaves, (more than 

 half as long in var. Griffithii), broader than long ; the branches divari- 

 cate, 8-12-flowered, minutely bracteolate. Floicers '35 in. long. Calyx- 

 tuhe campanulate-cylindric, somewhat constricted below the minutely 

 4-toothed mouth. Petals 4, obovate-oblong. Stamens 8, equal ; the 

 anthers linear-oblong, somewhat curved, the base with two short, black, 

 conical protuberances in front and a similar one behind. Fruit globular, 

 truncate, '2 to '25 in. in diam. Miq. Fl. Ind. I, pt. I, 542 ; C. B. 

 Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 547 ; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 

 586. Melastoma laiirifolium in Wall. Cat.' 4084 (not of Blnme). 

 Medinilla crassifolia, Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVIII, 86 (in 

 part). 



Malacca; G^H^^/i (Kew Distrib.) 2282; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 

 797, WalUcli 4084, Perak ; very common. Singapore ; Anderson. 

 SuNGEi LTjong ; Bidley 2205, Selaxgore ; Curtis 2334 ; Uidley 286. 

 Pangkore ; Curtis 1642. 



Distrib. Java, Sumatra. 



Var. Griffithii, C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 547. 

 Cymes much branched, more than half as long as the leaves, many- 

 flowered. 



Malacca; Grifith (Kew Bistrih.) 2282. 



6. Medinilla Scortechinii, King, n. sp. Epiphytal, 3 or 4 feet 

 high ; stems as thick as a goose-quill, the bark brown (when dry), 

 sparsely verrucellate. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, glabrous, sessile, 

 stem -clasping, oblong-ovate to oblong, shortly acuminate, the base 

 sub-cordate, 3-nerved, with occasionally a faint pair at the margin ; 

 length 45 to 65 in. ; breadth 1*5 to 275 in. Panicles cymose, axillary, 

 rather shorter than the leaves, very lax, spreading; the branches 

 slender, minutely bracteolate at the divarications ; the branchlets 

 compressed, sometimes 2--winged. Floicers nearly '4 in. long, on pedicels 

 as long as themselves. Calyx-tube campanulate, the mouth not much 



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