8onerila.~\ LX. MELASTOMACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) 530 



37. S. XLurzii, C. S. Clarke-, leaves orbicular nerved from the base, 

 pedicels 3-5 with many patent hairs, capsule short (Kurz). S. amabilis, Kurz 

 in Flora, 1871, 290. 



SIKKIM; Eungait Valley, alt. 4000-5000 ft., Kurz; Rung bee Valley, alt. 2000- 

 3000 ft., Juffrey. 



Leaves -f in. diam., with many long patent hairs, subentire, cordate at the base ; 

 petiole ^-15- in., with long patent hairs. Peduncle 1-2 in., with many patent hairs ; 

 pedicels crowded, snbumbelled. Petals in., broadly elliptic, obtuse, rose-mauve. 

 Anthers narrower upwards, hardly acuminated. 



Capsule oblonff funnel-shaped, distinctly trigonous. 



38. S. G-riffithii, C. IB. Clarke ; leaves glabrous minutely dotted puber- 

 ulous beneath, capsule f in. funnel-shaped, pedicel nearly | in., seeds with very 

 minute points raphe prominently excurrent on one side near the top. 



MALACCA, Mount Ophir ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2300), T. Lobb, Maingay 

 No. 781. 



Stemless, or the stem l-2 in. Leaves J^-l in., ovate, glabrous or with scattered 

 bristly hairs above, minutely denticulate, subciliate, nerves from near the base ; petiole 

 $-1 in. Peduncle 1-4 in., 2-6-flowered ; raceme short, glabrous or nearly so. Petals 

 in., broadly elliptic, acute. Anthers long, attenuate. 



39. S. nudiscapa, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 78 ; leaves with 

 flaccid scattered hairs beneath, capsule | in. narrow funnel-shaped, pedicel much 

 shorter, seeds with very small minute raised points raphe scarcely excurrent. 



MERGUI ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2303). TENASSERIM or ANDAMANS, Heifer 

 (Kew Distrib. No. 2303). 



Nearly stemless. Leaves 1-2 in., very thin, ovate or elliptic-oblong, obtuse, nearly 

 entire, somewhat pinnate-nerved ; petiole 0-f in. Peduncle l-l in., 3-8-flowered ; 

 raceme short, glabrous or nearly so. Petals % in., elliptic, acute. Seeds hardly half 

 as large as in any other species. 



40. S. violse folia, Hook.f. ms. ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 77; 

 glabrous, bundles of rufous bristles -| in. about the base of the petioles, capsule 

 | in. funnel-shaped usually shorter than the pedicel, seeds with minute raised 

 points raphe not excurrent. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 78. 



MOTJLMKIN ; Lobb No. 356. 



Stemless. Leaves 1-2 in., ovate, entire or minutely denticulate, 5-nerved, the upper 

 two nerves often branching from the midrib at a point some way above its base ; pe- 

 tiole ^-2|in. Peduncle 1-3 \ in., 3-8-flowered. Petals ^ in., mauve, elliptic, acute. 

 In this and the next species the rufous bristles at the base of the petiole are exceed- 

 ingly like those in S. arguta and 8. squarrosa, but they are in numerous tufts (not 

 2 only and quasi-stipular as in those species) and the petiole is not jointed on a 

 tubercle of a woody stem as in those species. 



41. S. khasiana, C. S. Clarke ; bundles of rufous bristles |- in. about 

 the base of the petioles, leaves usually with scattered bristly hairs above, capsule 

 -} in. oblong shorter than the pedicel, seeds with minute dots raphe not ex- 

 current. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 4000-5000 ft.; Mamloo, Kalapani, H. f. $ T.; Jarain in 

 Jaintea, C. B. Clarke. 



