526 LX. MELASTOMACE2E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Oxyspora. 



Leaves 4-5 in. (in some examples attaining 14 in.), ovate, aciite; petiole 1-2 in., 

 at its apex are some rough bristles. Longer stamens with the anther-cells diverging 

 below the truncate base of the connective where the filament is attached. Fruit 

 f by i in. 



2. O. vag-ans, Watt. Cat. 4075, partly; branchlets petioles and nerves of 

 the leaves beneath with some scattered patent villous hairs, capsule elliptic pro- 

 minently narrowed below the enlarged calyx-mouth, seeds blunt-headed with a 

 sharp right angle at the top of the back and a very short point at the top in 

 front. 0. vagans, var. a. Wall. PL As. Rar. p. 78 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxviii. 73 ; Kurz For. FL i. 505. Melastoma vagans, Eoxb. Hort. Seng. 33 ; 

 Fl. 2nd. ii. 404. Homocentria vagans, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xv. 308. 



MISHMEE; Griffith. KHASIA MTS., alt. 1000-3000 ft., common. CHITTAGONG ;. 

 Roxburgh. 



A rather smaller shrub than the preceding with the panicle generally more 

 slender. Longer stamens with the anther-cells slightly produced at the base, con- 

 nective having added to its base a linear spur. Wall. Cat. 4075 contains some 0. 

 paniculata not any 0. cernua. 



3. O. cernua, Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 73; glabrous, capsule 

 elliptic truncate hardly narrowed below the calyx-mouth, seeds simply falcate. 

 Kurz For. Fl i. 505. O. vagans var. ft. Wall. PL As. Ear. p. 78. Melastoma 

 cernua, Hoxb. Hort. Seng. 33 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 404. Allozygia cernua, Naud. in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xv. 309. 



MISHMEE; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2262); CHITTAGONG, alt. 0-1000 ft.; 

 H.f. T. 



A shrub, generally resembling 0. paniculata. Leaves commonly 6 in., attaining 

 1 2^ in. in some examples ; petiole 2 in. Eachis of the panicle somewhat sharply 

 quadrangular at the base, but cannot be said to be 4-winged in any of the specimens 

 at Kew (as Eoxburgh states it to be). Longer stamens with the anther-cells shortly 

 produced and diverging below the truncate base of the connective where the filament 

 is attached. 



5. 



A climber, ascending to the top of the highest trees, when in blossom ting- 

 ing the forest red. Leaves opposite, petioled, oblong or obovate, obtuse, fleshy. 

 Flowers terminal, in few-flowered umbels or solitary, large ; peduncles stout, 2- 

 bracteolate. Calyx urn-shaped, rose-purple ; limb shortly 4-toothed, greenish. 

 Petals 4, fleshy, a fine red. Stamens 8, equal ; anthers at the attenuated summit 

 opening by one pore, at the base shortly produced, connective having a horn 

 about % in. at the base. Ovary inferior, 4-6-celled ; style simple, filiform ; ovules 

 very many, placentas axile, fleshy. Capsule globose, 1-celled by absorption of 

 the septa, opening at the apex by 4-6 valves. Seeds very many, minute, 

 prismatic. 



1. XL. Walkeri, Hook.f. in Gen. PL i. 752; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxviii. p. 75, t. vi. fig. 70. Pachycentria Walkeri, Thwaites Enum. 107. 

 Medinilla ? Walkeri, Wight III. i. p. 217 ; Gardn. in Calc. Joum. Nat. Hist. 

 viii. p. 11. 



ANAMAIXAYS; Col. Bedd ome. CEYXON, alt. 3000-5000 1't. ; Wight; Walker; Gard- 

 iier, Thwaites. 



Stems in their lower part creeping up trees like ivy, hence flattened with the leaves 



