528 LX. MELASTOMACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Blastus. 



7. BLASTUS, Lour. 



A shrub with round branches. Leaves opposite, petioled, oblong-lanceolate, 

 3-5-nerved. Flowers very small, in axillary clusters ; peduncles short, without 

 bracts. Calyx-tube oblong, puberulous, limb shortly 4-lobed. Petals 4. Sta- 

 mens 4, equal ; anthers attenuate at the top, opening by one pore, cells pro- 

 duced and diverging at their bases; connective without appendage. Ovary 

 inferior, 4-celled, puberulous at the apex ; style filiform, simple ; ovules very 

 many, placentas axile, paired. Capsule small, obscurely 4-furrowed, opening at 

 the summit by four pores. Seeds very many, raphe long, testa long-linear, 

 produced at each end much beyond the small oblong nucleus. 



1. B. cochinchinensis, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 527 ; Seemann Journ. Sot. 

 i. 281. Anplectrum parviflorum,'J9en^A. Fl. Hongk. p. 116. 



ASSAM ; Masters. EAST BENGAL (prob. North-East Assam) ; Griffith. DISTRIB. 

 Hongkong and Formosa. 



A shrub 6 ft., glabrous, innovations minutely puberulous. Leaves 3-4 in., lanceo- 

 late or elliptic-lanceolate ; petidte -f in. Peduncles in fruit 5 in. or less. Fruit less 

 than in. broad. 



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8. OCKTKOCKARIS, Blume. 



Small erect glabrous shrubs, branches round. Leaves opposite, petioled, ob- 

 long or lanceolate, 3-5-nerved, minutely denticulate-serrulate. Flowers minute in 

 :axillary clustered cymes, rarely in axillary and terminal lax cymes. Calyx-tube 

 obovoid, smooth ; teeth 5, small, persistent. Petals 5. Stamens 10, equal ; an- 

 thers oblong, obtuse at the top opening with one pore, at the base shortly pro- 

 duced ; connective without appendage. Ovary inferior, 5-celled, glabrous at the 

 apex ; style simple, filiform ; ovules very many, placentas axile. Capsule glo- 

 bose, 5-valved, enclosed by the membranous calyx-tube. Seeds very many, irre- 

 gularly club-shaped. DISTEIB. Species 4 or 5, extending from Singapore to 

 Borneo. 



1. O. paniculata, Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Sot. 247, t. 64; leaves 

 opposite very unequal, panicle terminal. Blume Mus. Sot. i. 40 ; Naud. in Ann. 

 So. Nat. ser. 3. xv. p. 307, with Jig. ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. i. pt. i. 556 ; Triana 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 74. Melastoma oxyphyllum, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 

 4083. 



SINGAPORE; Wallich. DISTRIB. Malaya. 



Branches quadrangular, nearly glabrous, becoming minutely rusty towards the 

 panicle. Leaves attaining 5 in. by 2, lanceolate, 5-nerved, glabrous or minutely rusty 

 on the nerves ; petiole f in. Panicle H by If in., rusty puberulous, short-peduncled ; 

 branches opposite, supported by small linear bracts ^- in., the ultimate pedicels 

 ~-| in. Calyx-tube campanulate, nearly glabrous ; teeth 5, minute. Petals 5, f in., 

 ovate, subacute, rose-purple. Fruit (not ripe) i in. diam. subglobose. 



2. O. jajranica, Blume in Flora, 1831, 523; leaves somewhat fleshy 

 3-nerved secondary nerves obscure, cymes 1 in. axillary, pedicels in fruit scarcely 

 i in. Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xv. 307 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 556*; 

 Kurz For. Fl. i. 507. Melastoma ? littoreum, Wall. Cat. 4087. 



TENASSEBIM, Heifer (Kew Distrib. No. 2277). SINGAPOEE ; Wallich, Griffith No. 

 2278, T. Anderson, Maingay. DISTRIB. Java. 



