530 LX. MELASTOMACEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Sonerila. 



1. S. tenera, Itoi/le HI. 21o, t. 45; stem 2-4 in. erect little^divided, 

 pedicels 0- in., anthers short oblong truncate hardly narrowed at the top. 

 Wall. Cat. 4098 parti)/. 



SUBTROPICAL WESTERN HIMALAYA, Boyle, Edgeworth. CHOTA NAGPORE, alt. 

 1000-2000 ft., abundant ; C. B. Clarke. 



Stem weak, sometimes winged, puberulous or minutely pubescent. Leaves - in., 

 ovate, nearly entire, equal or unequal, with a few scattered lax hairs ; petiole less 

 than in. Calyx-tube puberulous and with a few scattered lax hairs ; teeth (at time 

 of flowering) ovate, acute, as long as broad. Petals |- in., ovate, acute, rose-purple. 

 Capsule nearly in., trigonous, elongate funnel-shaped, ribs between the angles very 

 obscure, often narrowed at the base so as to be subsessile. Seeds ovoid, smooth ; 

 raphe not excurrent. Wallich has distributed with Eoyle's S. tinera. a Tavoy plant, 

 S. stricta, and Eoyle has not detected the error, The pubescence of the stem as 

 given in the figure of Eoyle is very unlike nature. Triana has named Eoyle's ori- 

 ginal specimen "potius S. brachyandra, Naucl." a Manilla species, and has made 

 Edgeworth' s specimen and some Khasian ones of S. stricta the type of S. tenera. 



2. S. Stricta, Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 4394; stem 3-7 in. erect often 

 branched, pedicels in fruit often nearly \ in v anthers ovate much narrowed at the 

 top. 



KHASIA MTS., alt, 3000-4000 ft., plentiful. PEGU to TENASSERIM, frequent. 



Stem more or less puberulo-pubescent, and also with long lax spreading hairs. 

 Leaves \-\ in., lanceolate or elliptic, narrowed at each end, with scattered lax hairs. 

 Calyx-tube puberulous and with a few scattered la^ hairs, teeth broader than long. 

 Petals ^~ in., obovate, rose-purple. Capsule 5 in., trigonous, elongate funnel-shaped, 

 ribs between the angles very obscure. Seeds ovoid, smooth ; raphe not excurrent. 

 The type of this species is S. burmannica Wall. Cat. 4098, but the striking form 8. 

 stricta was first published and the name must therefore be maintained. The true S. 

 Eottleri Wall, is a Courtallum species and widely different, but Wallich seems in 

 hand-and-eye distribution to have mixed the present species with it. 



VAR. typica ; leaves with a few denticulations, uppermost sometimes in whorls of 

 4, often purplish beneath. Moulmein ; Lobb No. 347 ; Parish, JSfo. 427. 



VAR. burmannica, Wall. Cat. 4098 ; leaves usually entire or nearly so. S. tenera, 

 Wall. Cat. 4098 partly; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc, 1877, pt. ii. 78. S. Eottleri, Wall. 

 Cat. 4097 partly. Sonerila sp. 5 Griff. Notul. iv. 676. 



3. S. erecta, Jack in Mai. Misc. et in Hook. Sot. Misc. ii. 63; stem 8-12 

 in. firm erect with opposite branches, racemes secund, flowers sessile, capsule 

 long-cylindric subtrigonous, seeds hemi-ellipsoidal covered with glandular raised 

 points, raphe shortly excurrent and overtopping the seed. Wall. Cat. 4092 ; 

 Benn. PL Jav. Rar. p. 217 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 563 ; Nmid, in Ann. 

 Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xv. 324 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 75. 



MOULMEIN, Lobb. PINANG, Wallich. MALAYA, Maingay. DTSTRIB. Malaya. 



Stem bifariously hairy. Leaves f in., equal or unequal, lanceolate, slightly ovate 

 at the base, hairy on both surfaces, subentire or minutely denticulate, sessile and long- 

 petioled on the same plant, Racemes 2-6 -flowered. Calyx-tub, minutely pubescent. 

 Petals in., ovate, acute, rosy. Anthers ovate, much narrowed upwards. Fruits f- 

 in., 5- in. apart. 



ft Species of Ceylon and the South Deccan Peninsula. 



4. S. zeylanica, W. $ A. Prodr. 322; branches quadrangular nearly 

 glabrous, anthers y^-^ in. ovate narrowed upwards, capsule | in. funnel-shaped 

 subtrigonous with 6 prominent ribs. Am. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag.u. 307 

 (Oeylanica) ; Naud. 'in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xv. 321 ; Thwnites Enum. 109 ; 

 Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 75. 



