Astronia.'] LX. MELASTOMACEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) 551 



Leaves 4-5 in., lanceolate and broad-lanceolate, narrowed to both ends ; petiole 

 in. Panicle 1-3 in., ultimate pedicels 0-| in. Petals less than \ in., obovate. 

 Capsule - in. broad, ovoid or hemispheric. 



19. FTERNANDRA, Jack. 



Glabrous shrubs with round branches. Leaves opposite, sessile or short-pe- 

 tioled, ovate or lanceolate, entire, coriaceous, 3-nerved. Flowers small, in axil- 

 lary (and terminal) small cymes or panicles. Calyx-tube verrucose, campanulate ; 

 limb truncate, obscurely 4-toothed. Petals 4, blueish or white. Stamens 8, 

 equal ; filaments short, subulate ; anthers broad-oblong, obtuse at both ends, 

 opening by slits, connective simple at the base or very shortly spurred behind. 

 Ovary inferior, 4-celled, apex flat glabrous ; style long, stigma clavate ; ovules 

 very many, placentas sub-basal. Berry ovoid, truncate. Seeds very many, 

 cuneate-obovoid, raphe excurrent on one side towards the end, somewhat an- 

 gular. DISTKIB. Species 6 (or perhaps 2 only), from Pinang and Malacca 

 through Malaya to the Philippines. 



1. P. cserulescens, Jack in Mai. Misc. ii. 61 ; leaves 2-4 in. ovate 

 or lanceolate, stamens blue. Wall. Cat. 4077 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxviii. 153 ; Kurz For. Fl. i. 509 and in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 79. 

 Ewyckia cyanea, Blume Humph, i. 24, t. 8; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 568 ; 

 Triana 1. c. E. Jackiana, Walp. Rep. v. 724. E. paniculate, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 Suppl. 321 ex Kurz. Apteuxis trinervis, Griff. Notul. iv. 672. Nov. Gen. 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 225. 



PINANG and MALACCA ; Wallich. MERGUI ; Griffith. TENASSERIM ; Heifer. Ni- 

 COBARS ; Kurz. Malacca ; Cuming, Griffith. DISTRIB. Through Malaya to the 

 Philippines. 



Leaves narrowed at the base; petiole 0- in. Panicles 1-3 in., terminal and in 

 the upper axils, very short-peduncled, often crowded with many flowers, ultimate pe- 

 dicels very short, bracts minute. Berry \ in. broad, narrower at the mouth. 



VAR. Jackiana ; petioles attaining \ in., cymes axillary few-flowered. Malacca ; 

 Griffith; Maingay No. 801. 



2. P. capitellata, Jack in Mai. Misc. ii. Addenda prefixed to the paper 

 p. 3 ; leaves 6-8 in. ovate or broad-elliptic, cymes hardly 1 in. axillary few- 

 flowered dense. Wall. Cat. 4079 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 325 ; Triana in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xxviii. 153 ; Kurz For. Fl. i. 509 and in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 

 79. Ewyckia capitellata, Walp. Rep. v. 724 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 568. 

 E. medinilliformis, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xviii. 261. 



PINANG; Jack, Wallich. TENASSERIM; Heifer (Kew Distrib. No. 2270). MA- 

 LACCA ; Maingay No. 802. SINGAPORE ; Wallich. 



Leaves widest near the base ; petiole less than \ in. Doubtfully distinct from 

 P^ ccerulescens : the leaves are usually much larger while the cymes are smaller. 



3. P. paniculata, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 4080 ; leaves short-petioled nor- 

 mally elliptic or lanceolate, ends of the branches dividing into bundles of small- 

 leaved branchlets on which are the scattered flowers. P. latifolia, Triana in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 153. Ewyckia latifolia, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 6. 



PINANG; Porter. MALACCA; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2273). DISTRIB. 

 Sarawak. 



The normal leaves are about 5 by 2 in., the abnormal leaves on the " panicles " are 

 very narrow lanceolate, often 1 by ^-\ in. This is probably only a proliferous state of 

 P. ccerulescens as Korthals and Miquel treat it. 



