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carnation. The nearest ally of this is M. montana, Cogn. — a New Guinea species — 

 "which has however, longer flowers, a wider calyx-tube, more slender branches which 

 are moreover smooth, and narrower leaves narrowed at the base. 



14. PoGONANTHERA, Blume. 



Shrubs ; branches round, minutely scaly. Leaves opposite, petioled, 

 oblong or ovate, entire, glabrous, 3-nerved. Flowers small, pulverulent, 

 in small, terminal panicles having opposite, cymose branches. GalyX' 

 tube narrowly campanulate, subqnadrangular ; limb 4-toothed. Petals 

 4, oblong-lanceolate. Stamens 8, equal ; anthers oblong, acute, opening 

 by a terminal pore, not produced at the base ; connective at the base 

 bearded behind with a tuft of hairs, not spurred. Ovary half-inferior, 

 4-celled, with a tuft of hairs at the apex ; style filiform ; ovules very 

 many, placentas axile. Berry small, globose, 4-celled, crowned with 

 the calyx-limb. Seeds very many, obovoid- oblong, smooth. Distrib, 

 Species 2 ; Malayan. 



PoGONANTHERA PULVERULENTA, Blumc in Flora, 1831, 521. An 

 epiphytic shrub, all parts (but especially the calyx-tube) bearing 

 pale yellow scales ; the stems sparsely lenticellate. Leaves rather 

 fleshy, ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate, 

 the base more or less narrowed and bituberculate, 3-5-nerved: the 

 margins obscurely crenate and slightly reflexed ; upper surface glabrous, 

 the lower paler and minutely pulverulent ; length 3 to 6-5 in. ; breadth 

 1*75 to 3 in. ; petiole '25 to '6 in., stout. Panicles terminal, 2 to 3 in. 

 long and equally broad, cymose, the branches spreading. Calyx-tube 

 sub-cylindric, constricted below the expanded 4-toothed mouth, very 

 scaly. Petals 4: J ohlong, densely scaly externally. Stamens 8; anthers 

 lanceolate, the connective with a tuft of hairs at the base behind. Fruit 

 pisiform, '15 in. in diam. Korfch. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. t. 65 ; Griff. 

 Notul. IV. 678; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. T, 553 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. XXVIII, 89; C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 550; 

 Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 610. P. rejiexa, Blume in Flora, 1831, 

 521 ; Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 24 ; Naud. Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XV, 

 303, tab. 15, fig. 1 ; Triana I.e. 89 ; Beccari IVlalesia, II, 241, tab. LIX, 

 4-5. P. sqtiamulata, Korth. (ex Blume) Mus. Bot. I, 24. Melastoma 

 rejlexa, Reinw. ined. (ex Blume in Flora, 1831, 521). M. rubicunda, 

 Jack in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV, 19 ; Wall. Cat. 4086. M. pulver^ilentay 

 Jack in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV, 19; DC. Prodr. Ill, 149; Blume 

 in Bijdr., 1072. 



Singapore; Perak; Malacca; Penang ; common. Distrib. Java, 

 Sumatra, Borneo. 



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