544 LI. MELASTOMACEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Dissochceta.. 



PINANG; Wallich, Porter. MALACCA ; Maingay No. 791, 793. 



Leaves 2|3 in., glabrous above, with scattered stellate hairs beneath ; petiole 

 \ in. Pedicels 0- in. Petals rose (Jack). Fruit ellipsoid, mouth of the calyx en- 

 larged. Maingay's example No. 791 has larger flowers than the Wallichian types but 

 appears to agree otherwise : the fruits in Maingay's examples are more than ^ in. 

 long (though not ripe). 



4. D. pallida, Blume in Flora, 1831, 500; branches and panicle mi- 

 nutely puberulous with microscopic stellate often evanescent hairs, panicle some- 

 what spreading not leafy with minute lanceolate caducous bracts, calyx-tube of 

 the buds |- in. minutely puberulous or glabrous, limb (in the bud) nearly 

 entire or very obscurely 4-lobed. Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xv. 77, t. xv. 

 f. 4 ; Miq. Fl. 2nd. Sat. i. pt. i. 528 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 83. 

 D. superba, Naud. I. c. ; Miq. I. c. D. ovalifolia, Naud. I. c. 76 ; Miq. I. c. 527. 

 D. astrosticta, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat.Suppl.318. Melastoma pallida, Jack in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xiv. 12 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 150 ; Wall. Cat. 4049. 



PINANG; Wallich. MALAY PENINSULA; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2292). SIN- 

 GAPORE, PINANG &c. ; Walker, Maingay No. 792. DISTEIB. Malaya Archipelago. 



Leaves attaining 6 by 3 in., glabrous above, dotted beneath with separate stellate 

 minute hairs ; petiole f in. Pedicels less than | in. Fruit ovoid, mouth of the calyx 

 much enlarged. The 4 shorter stamens are sometimes obsolete, which accounts for 

 the multiplication of species here by authors. 



** Anthers short, oblong, truncate, not narroived upwards. 



This section is much more distinct from section * than the latter is from Maru- 

 mia ; there is no case of intermediate anthers, they are either decidedly truncate or 

 very elongate. The three species of this section ** are very closely allied ; the panicle 

 is large and lax, the ultimate pedicels short, the bracts caducous, the flowers small, 

 the calyx-limb from the bud truncate or only very obscurely 4-lobed. 



5. D. intermedia, Blume in Flora, 1831, 493; leaves beneath and 

 panicle stellately tomentose sometimes ferruginous, fruit \ in. broad more or less 

 pubescent crowned by the enlarged calyx-mouth not distinctly ribbed. Naud. 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat.' ser. 3. xv. 72 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. i. pt. i. 524 ; Triana in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 83. Melastoma rubiginosum, Wall. Cat. 4052, partly. 



PINANG and SINGAPORE ; Wallich. MALAY PENINSULA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 

 2287), Heifer (Kew Distrib. No. 2286). DISTRIB. Malay Archipelago. 



Leaves 3 in. ; petiole | in. Nodes of panicle often much thickened. Flowers 

 rather larger than in the two following species. 



6. X>. celebica, Blume Mm. Bot. i. 36; leaves beneath and panicle 

 rufous-stellate tomentose, fruit less than | in. broad minutely pubescent ribbed, 

 calyx-limb caducous leaving only a scar. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 530 ; 

 Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 83. D. microcarpa, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat* 

 ser. 3. xv. 72 ; Miq. I. c. 523. D. bancana, Miq. 1. c. 529. Melastoma fallax, 

 Wall. Cat. 4050 ; ? Jack in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 13. M. rubiginosum, Wall. 

 Cat. 4052, partly. 



PINANG ^Wallich. MALAY PENINSULA ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2288). MA- 

 LACCA; Maingay No. 790. SINGAPORE; T.Anderson. DISTRIB. Malay Archipelago. 



Leaves 3 in. ; petiole ^ in. Nodes of panicle often much thickened. Not well dis- 

 tinct from the preceding species. 



7. X>. gracilis, Blume in Flora, 1831, p. 498; leaves beneath and panicle 

 glabrous or very nearly so, fruit less than f in. broad glabrous ovoid much nar- 



