542 LX. MELASTOMACEJE. (0. B. Clarke.) [Marumia. 



tomentose (and often bristly or stellate-hairy) ; lobes 4, persistent. Petals 4, 

 obovate. Stamens 8, unequal ; anthers elongate, opening by a single pore ; con- 

 nective of the longer anthers carrying in front two long bristles and behind 

 often one or two spurs or several twisted bristles. Ovary at the base (or half 

 its height) adnate to the calyx, 4-celled, densely hairy, at the apex; style 

 filiform ; ovules numerous, placentas axile. Berry ellipsoid, crowned by the 

 calyx-limb. Seeds numerous, oblong-ellipsoid, with glandular scarcely raised 

 dots, raphe slightly excurrent along the whole length of one side. DISTRIB. 

 Species 10, extending from the southern half of the Transgangetic Peninsula to 

 Borneo and the Philippines. 



1. M. nemorosa, Blume in Flora, 1831, 505 ; branches rusty closely 

 pubescent subtomentose, calyx-tube rusty closely pubescent stellate-tomentose 

 sometimes scabrous subtuberculate, teeth ovate-lanceolate acuminate. Naud. 

 in Ann. So. Nat. ser. 3. xv. 270 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 532 ; Triana in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 82. M. affinis, Korth. in Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 241, 

 t. 60 : Miq. 1. c. 533. Melastoma nemorosum, Jack in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 8 : 

 DO. Prodr. iii. 149 ; Wall. Cat. 4043. 



PINANG; Wallich, Schomburgk, Phillips. MALACCA; Griffith, Maingay. DISTRIB. 

 Borneo, Sumatra. 



Leaves 3-4 in., shining, minutely puberulous above, rufous-stellate beneath ; petiole 

 \ in. Peduncle 1-2 in. ; pedicels 5--^ in. Connective of the longer anthers at the base 

 with two long bristles in front and several short twisted hairs behind. 



2. M. zeylanica, Blume in Flora, 1831, 505 ; branches rusty closely 

 pubescent or subtomentose and with scattered spreading long bristles, calyx- 

 tube rufous-stellate tomentose and with spreading bristles \ in., teeth triangular- 

 lanceolate. Blume Humph, t. 5 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 82. M. 

 echinulata, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xv. 280 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 

 534. Melastoma rhodocarpum, Wall. Cat. 4045. 



MALACCA; Maingay. SINGAPORE; Wallich, Walker, T. Anderson. DISTRIB. Ma- 

 laya to the Philippines. 



Leaves 3-4 in., shining above, rufous-stellate beneath ; petiole - in. Peduncle 

 1 in., pedicels ^-^ in. Connective of the longer anthers at the base with two long 

 bristles in front and several short twisted hairs behind. 



VAR. subalabrata ; leaves beneath glabrous except the nerves. Singapore, T. 

 Anderson. 



3. XH. reticulata, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 34; branches rusty tomentose 

 and with spreading scattered long bristles, calyx-tube rufous-stellate tomentose 

 and with spreading bristles \ in. from clustered tubercular bases, teeth short 

 triangular in the bud ovate rounded reflexed after flowering tomentose within. 

 Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 82. M. stellulata, Korth. in Verh. Nat. 

 Gesch. Bot. 243, not of Blume. 



MALAY PENINSULA ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2269). MALACCA ; Maingay No. 

 784. DISTRIB. Sumatra and Java. 



Leaves 2-3| in., -shining impressed-reticulate above, with scattered stellate pubes- 

 cence beneath petiole ^ in. Peduncles | 1 in., chiefly from the upper axils forming 

 a quasi-terminal panicle; pedicels \ in. Connective of the longer anthers at the base 

 with two long bustles in front; anthers very long, sigmoid. M. oligantha, Naud. in 

 Ann. Sc. bat. ser. 3. xv. 300 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 534 is said by Triana to be 

 also a syn. of M. reticulata, Blume. 



