Sarcopyramis.'] LX. MELASTOMACEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) 541 



opening by 4 valves at the top. Seeds numerous, obovoid, covered with pro- 

 minent raised points, raphe not excurrent. 



1. S. nepalensis, Watt. Tent. Fl. Nep. t. 23; Cat. 4088; Benn. PL 

 Jav. Rar. 214. S. lanceolata, Wall. Cat. 6290; Benn. I. c. ; Kurz in Journ. As. 

 Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 77. S. grandiflora, Griff. Notul. iv. 678 ; Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 639. 



NIPAL and SIKKIM, alt. 4000-9000 ft. ; plentiful. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4000-6000 ft. ; 

 plentiful. BURMA and MALAY PENINSULA ; Griffith, Kurz. 



Stem often 2-6 in., succulent, weak, sometimes 18 in. with thick woody branches. 

 Leaves 2-4 in., from ovate to lanceolate, long-acuminate ; petiole -1 in. Calyx-tvhc 

 glabrous, sometimes with minute bundles of hairs between the bases of the teeth. 

 Petals scarcely ^ in. Fruit about \ in., quadrangular, mouth of the calyx-tube very wide. 

 Triana reduces (in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 77, 78) to this species Sonerila Naudi- 

 niana Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. i. pt. i. p. 565 with syn. But Miquel removed this plant 

 from Sarcopyramis because it had 6 stamens : there is no authentic specimen of it at 

 Kew. * 



12. 



IJerbaceous small shrubs with very short stems. Leaves opposite (or the ter- 

 minal leaf solitary), large, petioled, orbicular, cordate, 7-9-nerved. Flowers in 

 a peduncled dense head, purple. Calyx-tube campanulate, glabrous or with long 

 bristles near the top, teeth 4 (rarely 3), acute, long-setose. Petals 4 (rarely 3), 

 ovate, acute, glabrous. Stamens 8 (rarely 6), equal ; anthers elongate, scarcely 

 produced at the base, connective without appendage. Ovary adnate to the bot- 

 tom of the calyx- tube, 4- (rarely 3-) celled, glabrous at the apex ; style filiform ; 

 ovules very numerous, placentas large axile. Capsule broadly funnel-shaped, 

 opening by 4 valves at the top. Seeds ellipsoid, somewhat obovoid, with glan- 

 dular hardly raised dots, raphe slightly excurrent along one side of the seed its 

 whole length. DISTKIP. Species 2 ; one Malayan, one Bornean. 



1. P. rotundifolia, Blume in Flora, 1831, 507 ; leaves glabrous or 

 puberulo-glandular beneath, flower-heads with ovate bracts beneath. Korth. in 

 Verh. Nat. Gesch. Sot. t. 57 ; Naud. in Ann.^Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xv. p. 332 ; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 5282 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 77. Melastoma rotundifolium, 

 Jack in Trans. Linn. Soc. tdv. 12 ; DC. P)-odr. iii. 149. 



MALACCA ; Griffith, Maingay. ? TENASSEEIM or ANDAMANS, Heifer No. 2266. 



Leaves usually 4-9 in. diam., obtuse or acute, entire, usually red beneath ; petiole 

 2-5 in., with long pendent coarse bristles or nearly glabrous. Bracts to the flower 

 head red, in. wide and upwards. Calyx-teeth from short-ovate with a mucro to 

 ovate-lanceolate attenuate. Capsule about \ in., fruiting pedicel about in. Hei- 

 fer's No. 2266, in fruit, shows the capsule trigonous with smooth almost convex faces : 

 the other typical examples show the fruit 6-8-ribbed, the ribs prominent : in all these 

 the fruit is over-ripe and the wall partly broken down. Heifer's plant may be a 

 new species or even a new genus ; but the leaves are exceedingly like the well-marked 

 leaves of Phyllagathis. 



13. HXARUZKIA, Blume. 



Twining shrubs ; branches round, thickened at the nodes. Leaves opposite, 

 short-petioled, coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, cordate at the base, 3-nerved from 

 the base besides two submarginal nerves, entire, tomentose beneath. Cymes 

 axillary ; flowers 3-5, large, pedicelled, purple or white. Calyx-tube cylindric, 



