MELASTOMACEjE. XXXVIII. MELASTOMA. 



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beset with adpressed scale-like strigae, with the segments broad- 

 subulate. Tj . S. Native of Java, on the mountains called 

 Megamendung in woods. 



/ nr. y, lato-bracteatum (Blum. 1. c.) leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 obtuse at the base, 3-nerved ; flowers in terminal bundles ; 

 bracteas oval, acuminated, fringed. Jj . S. Native along with 

 the preceding var. at Laga. 

 Bristle-bearing Melastoma. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



15 M. LANUOINOSUM (Blum, bijdr. p. 1077.) branches, pe- 

 tioles, and nerves of leaves on the under surface clothed with 

 chaffy bristles ; leaves ovate, or oblong-ovate, acute, rather 

 cordate at the base or roundish, quite entire, 5 -nerved, clotbed 

 with yellowish villi on both surfaces, but when in a young state 

 woolly ; flowers few, in terminal fascicles ; calyx beset with 

 adpressed scale-like bristles, with the segments broad-subulate ; 

 each alternate stamen has its connective elongated. f? . S. 

 Native of Java, in the province of Tjanjor, near Tjibidoy. 

 Flowers purple ? 



Jf'i.olly Melastoma. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



16 M. CELE'BicuM(Blum. in hot. zeit. 1831.no. 28.) branches, 

 petioles, and nerves of the leaves on the under surface covered 

 with adpressed scales ; leaves ovate-oblong, acuminated, rounded 

 at the base, or obtuse, finely denticulated, 3-nerved, as well as 

 with 2 lateral nervules, bristly above and villous beneath ; 

 flowers in terminal corymbs ; calyx beset with adpressed scale- 

 like strigce, with the segments subulate. Tj . S. Native of 

 Celebes, on Mount Sempa. 



Celebes Melastoma. Shrub 3 to 6 feet. 



17 M. PORPHY'REUM (Zipp. ex Blum. 1. c.) branches, petioles, 

 and nerves of leaves on the under surface, rough from scales ; 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminated, obtuse at the base, finely 

 denticulated, 3-nerved, as well as having 2 lateral nervules, 

 rather scabrous ; flowers terminal, usually solitary, on short 

 peduncles ; calyx covered with long, incurved, spreading bristles. 



fj . S. Native of the Moluccas. Flowers purple? 

 Porphyry Melastoma. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



18 M. WALLI'CHII (D. C. prod. 3. p. 146.) branches terete, 

 strigose ; leaves elliptic-oblong, narrowed at the base, acumin- 

 ated at the apex, 5-nerved, villous on both surfaces ; flowers 3 

 together at the tops of the branches ; calycine tube subglobose, 

 covered with scale-like ciliated strigae, with 6 deciduous seg- 

 ments. Tj . G. Native of Nipaul. Appendages between the 

 lobes of the calyx small. Flowers purple. Each alternate 

 stamen has its connective elongated. 



Wallich's Melastoma. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



19 M. NORMA'LE (D. Don, prod. fl. nep. 220.) branches 

 thickly covered with bristly hairs ; leaves elliptic, acute, rounded 

 at the base, 5-nerved, beset with bristly hairs above and with 

 tomentum beneath ; flowers 3 together at the tops of the 

 branches ; calyx globose, covered with narrow, hoary, ciliated 

 adpressed scales, the lobes deciduous. J? . G. Native of 

 Nipaul. Appendages between the lobes of the calyx small. 

 Flowers pale red. Each alternate stamen has its connective 

 elongated. Habit of M. Malabathricum. 



Normal Melastoma. Shrub 3 to 6 feet. 



20 M. DECE'MFIDUM (Roxb. hort. beng. p. 90. ex Jack, in 

 Lin. trans. 114. p. 6.) shrubby, decandrous ; branches terete, 

 beset with scattered, scale-like strigae ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 attenuated, 5-nerved, hardly spinulose on the margins ; flowers 

 terminal, usually solitary, on short pedicels ; calyx 5-cleft, echi- 

 nated, from soft stretched bristles ; anthers of the longer sta- 

 mens apiculated at the base. T? . S. Native of Pulo-Penang. 

 Flowers purple. Allied to M. Malabathricum, but the flowers 

 are larger and more beautiful. The appendages between the 

 lobes of the calyx large. 



TVn-c/e/if-calyxed Melastoma. Shrub 3 to 4 feet. 



21 M. CYANOIDES (Smith, in Rees. cycl. vol. 23.) leaves 

 ovate, acute, entire, 5-nerved, beset with yellowish bristles ; ra- 

 cemes terminal, forked ; calyx densely clothed with bristles ; 

 bracteas oval, fringed. Jj . S. Native of Amboyna. Rumph. 

 amb. 4. t. 71. Rheed. mal. 4. t. 43. ex Smith. 



Cyanus-like Melastoma. Shrub 3 to 6 feet. 



22 M. DODECA'NDRUM (Lour. coch. p. 274.) shrubby ; leaves 

 ovate, quite entire, glabrous, 5-nerved ; peduncles lew-flowered, 

 terminal ; flowers dodecandrous, rose-coloured ; larger stamens 

 have their connectives elongated, in the smaller ones the con- 

 nectives are hardly evident, all fertile ; berry roundish, 5-cellecl. 

 Jj . G. Native of Cochin-china and China, about Canton. M. 

 rosea, Poir. diet, suppl. 3. p. 644. Flowers red. 



Dodecandrous Melastoma. Shrub 1 foot. 



23 M. OBVOLU'TUM (Jack, in Lin. trans. 14. p. 3.) shrubby ; 

 branches tetragonal, scaly ; leaves ovate, 5-nerved, clothed with 

 adpressed pili ; flowers few, in terminal panicles ; bracteas ovate, 

 involving the calyx ; calyx covered with stellate pili ; anthers 

 of longer stamens furnished with 2 appendages at the base ; 

 ovarium 5-cellecl. ^ . S. Native of Sumatra. Limb 

 of calyx crowned by long scales on the outside. Flowers 

 purple. 



Obvolute-calyxed Melastoma. Shrub 2 feet. 



24 M. SEPTEMXE'RVIUM ( Lour. p. 273.) shrubby; branches 

 terete ; leaves oval-lanceolate, quite entire, 7-nerved, pilose on 

 both surfaces, scabrous, petiolate ; flowers few, terminal, large, 

 purple, decandrous ; calyx 5-cleft ; petals roundish ; stamens 

 brown, refracted, furnished with a long tail each ; berry ovate, 

 hispid, dry, 5-celled. f? . G. Native of Cochin-china, every 

 where on the less cultivated hills and fields. Flowers purple. 



Seven-nerved-leaved Melastoma. Shrub 6 feet. 



25 M. MADAGASCARIE'NSIS (D. Don, mem. wern. soc. 4. p. 

 290.) leaves elliptic, 3-nerved, mucronate, acute at the base, 

 beset with stiff hairs beneath as well as the branches ; flowers 

 panicled ; calyx hispid ; anthers furnished with long connec- 

 tives, each ending in 2 bristles. Pj . S. Native of Madagascar. 



Madagascar Melastoma. Shrub. 



* * Species natives of Sierra Leone, with dry capsules. 



26 M. CYMOSUM (D. C. prot!. 3. p. 147.) stem branched, 

 bluntly tetragonal, warted, pubescent ; leaves cordate, acumin- 

 ated, petiolate, serrulated, 7-nerved ; flowers cymose ; calyx 

 campanulate : with its teeth triangular, and one-half shorter than 

 the tube ; petals obovate, somewhat laterally acuminated, pur- 

 ple or red ; genitals deflexed ; larger stamens falcate, purple, 

 each furnished with a prominent connective, which is broadish 

 at the base and somewhat truncately emarginate at the apex ; 

 style filiform; capsule 5-celled, 5-valved. I? . S. Native of 

 Sierra Leone. Vent. hort. malm. t. 14. Lois. herb. amat. 

 t. 135. ex Balb. Sims, hot. mag. 984. Flowers purple. 



Cymose- flowered Melastoma. Shrub 2 feet. 



27 M. PLUMOSUM (D. Don, 1. c.) herbaceous, erect; stem 

 branched ; branches quadrangular ; leaves roundish-ovate, en- 

 tire, acute, 3-nerved, pilose on both surfaces as well as the 

 branches ; flowers scattered, solitary, on the tops of the branches 

 and branchlets ; calyx beset with scales, which are stellately 

 plumose at the apex. Q. S. Native of Sierra Leone, on the 

 mountains, particularly in the coffee plantations near the Go- 

 vernor's house. Osbeckia rotundifolia, Smith, in Rees' cycl. 

 vol. 25. 



Plumose- scaled Melastoma. PI. f foot. 



28 M. INVOLUCRA'TUM (D. Don, 1. c. but not of Desr. nor 

 Schrank, nor Mart.) the whole plant beset with stiff pili ; stems 

 and branches red ; branches diffuse ; leaves elliptic, or ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute, obsoletely 5-nerved, quite entire ; flowers few 



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