Dissochceta.] LX. MELASTOMACEJ:. (C. B. Clarke.) 545 



rowed upwards, calyx-mouth appearing only as a scar. Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. 

 Bot. 267 ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xv. 75 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 

 526; Trit.nain Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 83. Melastoma gracile, Jack in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xiv. 14 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 149. M. fallax, Wall. Cat. 4080. ? M. glauca, 

 Griff. Ic. PI. Asiat. 637. 



PINANG and SINGAPORE ; Wollich. DISTBIB. Malay Archipelago. 



Leaves 3 in. ; petiole sometimes f in. Nodes of panicle often thickened. Stamens 

 8 or 4, as in the two preceding species. Petals nearly white (Jack). Bracts % in., 

 oblong, much exceeding the expanding buds. 



15. ANPLECTRUM, A. Gray. 



Twining shrubs. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, entire, oblong, narrowed 

 upwards, 3-5-nerved from the base. ' Flowers not large, white, in terminal pa- 

 nicles sometimes leafy at the base. Calyx-tube ovoid, limb obscurely 4-lobed or 

 truncate. Petals 4. Stamens 4 perfect ; anthers attenuated upwards, opening 

 by one pore, connective at base shortly appendaged or subnude, never with two 

 long bristles in front ; imperfect stamens 4, 2, or 0, with a rudimentary anther 

 often bicaudate. Ovary 4-celled, free at the apex, with 4 vertical ridges ; 

 style simple ; ovules many, placentas axile. Berry ovoid or globose, crowned 

 with the calyx-limb. Seeds very many, small, falcate, obovoid ; raphe long, 

 lateral. DISTKIB. Species 12, extending from Mergui, Pinang and Singapore 

 to Borneo, and the Philippines. 



1. A. glaucum, Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 84 excL.many of the 

 syn. ; leaves 4-6 in. from a broad or subcordate base glabrous beneath suddenly 

 narrowed into a short obtuse subcaudate tip. A. cyanocarpum, Kurz in Journ. 

 As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 78, not of Triana. Dissocheeta spoliata, Naud. in Ann. Sc. 

 Nat. ser. 3. xv. 69, t. 4, fig. 1 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 521. Melastoma 

 cernuurn, Wall. Cat. 4054, not of Roxb. M. glaucum, Wall. Cat. 4055. Os- 

 beckia tetrandra, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 224. 



PINANG ; Wallich. MERGUI and MALAY PENINSULA ; Griffitk^Kew Distrib. No. 

 2289) ; Maingay No. 793-2. TENASSEBIM or ANDAMANS ; Heifer (Kew Distrib. No. 

 2290). DISTBIB. Malay Archipelago. 



Flowers cernuous. Shorter stamens 4, 2orO. Fruit -~ in. broad. Pedicels and 

 calyx-tube minutely puberulous, plant otherwise glabrous. A. cyanocarpum, Triana. 

 has the stem somewhat thickly covered with long spreading bristles. None of the 

 plants collected within the area of the Indian Flora show such bristles : the two spe- 

 cies may not be distinct, but Mr. Kurz, while not uniting them, says that Heifer's 

 No. 2290 is Triana's A. cyanocarpum, which must be wrong, as Triana has written A. 

 glaucum on Heifer's No. 2290. 



2. A. pallens, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 38 ; leaves l-2 in. glabrous or mi- 

 nutely puberulous beneath 3-nerved (scarcely 5-nerved) suddenly narrowed into 

 a long obtuse subcaudate tip. Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xv. 304 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 554 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 84. Melastoma 

 petiolare, Wall. Cat. 4053. 



PINANG ; Wallich, Porter. MALACCA ; Maingay No. 795, 2663. DISTRIB. Sumatra, 

 Borneo. 



Shorter stamens usually 0. Fruit I in. broad, glabrous. Young calyx-tube oftf n 

 minutely but densely rufous tomentose. Some of the Archipelago examples have 

 leaves 4| in. and are then very like A. glaucum. 



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