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HAB. Mt. Morrison. 



Near 0. aspcm BLUME. luit differs from it in having shorter spherical 

 capsules and much more scabrous leaves. 



2. Melftstoma BIT.M. 



Melastoma candidum TV>\ : M \rsor. et HAYATA Enum. PI. Form-. 

 p. 140. 



HAB. Pachina. Kusshaku. Shiutengai, Maruyama, Senton, Tarasni, South 

 Cape. Koshun, Ivu<uku<u. and every where in the islands. 



DISTRIB. Loo-choo, Hongkong, China. 



3. Barfhea HOOK. f. 



Barthea formosana HAYATA Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 97. Shrub scandent 

 branched, branches very slender glabrous or in very young ones glanduloso- 

 lepidote under microscope. Leaves shortly petioled, petioles 10-times shorter 

 than the blades, blade stibcoriaceous, young ones membranaceous, oblong, nearly 

 10 cm. long 3 cm. broad, obliquely caudate-acuminate at the apex, (tails linear), 

 acute and equal at the base, margin subentire or remotely obscurely 

 - rmlate, 3-o-nerved, above under lense minutely sparingly setulose, beneath 

 pallid, veins prominent, under microscope minutely and densely lepidote. 

 Flowers terminal at the apex of the branches, 1-3-congested, larger, patent. 3 

 cm. in diameter, shortly pedicelled, pedicels 34 mm. long, minutely lepidote. 

 Calyx-tube very glabrous obpyrarnidal or campanulate 9 mm. long, tetragonal 

 limb dilate 4-lobed, lol>es shorter triangular setoso-carinato-acumiuate at the 

 apex. Petals 4, ample, obliquely oliovate 18 mm. long, 16 mm. broad, 

 roundly apiculate at the ajjex, quite glabrous, margin under lense ciliato- 

 - rvul.it. -. Sbimens 8, very unequal, larger, anthers lineari-elongate obtuse, 

 1-porose, incurved, connectives liase forward long 2-setosed (set^ 2-tiil . 

 backward produced to a thick ascendent spur ; smaller anthers short oblong 

 recurved, connectives base forward 2-setosed (setee simple), backward shortly 

 ^purred. Ovary adnate to the calyx, (4-canalicnlate l>etween overy and calyx 

 4-celled, slightly produced on the top : style filiform, decimate, 2-times 

 larger than the ovary, stigma point-sliai^ed. C'a}>su1-s obl^ug-gloliose sub- 



