on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IF. 217 



except the inflorescence, which he calls a panicle, whereas it consists of from 

 one to five terminal flowers, each supported by an undivided pedunculus. 

 This difference, however, may have arisen either from his having used the 

 term panicle without strictly attending to its definition, or from his having 

 taken this part of his description from the figure of the Katou Kaduli : he 

 could not take it from the Kadali, where the flowers are evidently disposed in 

 racemes. The figure of the M. Malabathrica, however, given by M. Lamarck 

 (///. Gen. t. 361./. 1.) represents only three nerves, while the inflorescence is 

 not a panicle, but three terminal one-flowered pedunculi, a difference between 

 the figure and description for which I cannot account. 



In the Hortus Kewensis neither Kadali nor Katou Kadali is quoted for the 

 M. Malabathrica (iii. 46.), which I consider is proper, neither being the plant 

 described by the elder Burman. The only figure quoted in the Hortus Kew- 

 ensis is in the Botanical Magazine of Mr. Curtis (No. 529.), where, indeed, the 

 Kadali and Fragrarius niger are quoted ; but then the figure, by the number of 

 nerves and the size of the flower, sufficiently shows that the M. quinquenervia 

 hirta major of the elder Burman (Thes. Zeyl. Ibh.t. 73.) is actually meant. 



In the Hortus Bengalensis (33.), in general very accurate, the Kadali is 

 quoted for the M. Malabathrica, which, therefore, should be added to the 

 synonyma of the M. aspera of Burman ; and the M. aspera of Dr. Roxburgh 

 must be some other plant, which I have had no means of ascertaining ; but it 

 may perhaps be the following, or Ben Kadali. 



Dr. Jack, in his valuable paper already mentioned (4.), quotes as usual the 

 Kadali and Fragrarius niger for his M. Malabathrica ; but the leaves of his 

 plant have five nerves, and it is not therefore that of Rheede and Rumphius ; 

 nor, on account of its inflorescence, is it the plant of Burman (Thes. Zeyl. t. 73.), 

 which I presume is Dr. Jack's M. obvoluta. 



Ben Kadali, p. 89. 

 No figure is given of this plant ; but as it is stated to be very like the pre- 

 ceding, we may infer that its leaves have three nerves, and therefore, as I have 

 said, it may be the M. aspera of Dr. Roxburgh. It is evidently a very distinct 

 species from the Kadali, and also from the Melastoma Malabathrica of Curtis, 

 both of which have the alternate stamina much longer than the other five ; 



