MELASTOMACE^. 47 



petiolate ovate or shortly lanceolate serrulate, 3-nerved ; flowers ^ in 

 terminal and axillary cymiferous capitules, pedunculate or subsessile. 

 {Java, mount, and temp, India and Burma, ^) 



20. Phyllagathis Bl.^— Flowers (nearly of Sarcopyramis) 3, 4- 

 merous ; receptacle longer. Sepals 8, 4, more or less ciliately setose. 

 Petals 3, 4, ovate -acute. Stamens 4-8 ; anthers subulate ; con- 

 nective not produced, at base dorsally not or scarcely spurred. 

 Germen adnate to receptacle below, 3, 4-loculaf, widely hollowed at 

 apex. Fruit enclosed by thick coriaceous receptacle, at apex deeply 

 hollowed in 4 valves; seeds, &c. oi Sarcopyramis. — Dense shrublets; 

 branches herbaceous ; leaves opposite,^ large petiolate ovately orbicu- 

 late, at base cordate, obtuse entire or dentate variegated, 5-7-nerved ; 

 petiole often crinite ; flowers ^ in a glomeruliferous capitule involu- 

 crate ^ with broad bracts.^ (Malaya.^) 



21. Rousseauxia DC.^ — Flowers 4-merous; receptacle tubular 

 campanulate glabrous. Sepals 4, ovately acute, ciliate, much con- 

 torted. Petals 4, obovate, contrariwise contorted. Stamens 8, 2- 

 seriate, subequal ; filaments short compressed ; anthers longer, much 

 inflexed in bud, elongate obtuse, 1-porous at apex, cells glabrous not 

 undulate; connective not produced not appendiculate. Germen 

 adnate to receptacle by means of septa interposed between stamens, 

 4-celled, setose at vertex ; style slender deflexed, at apex stigmatose 

 not dilated. Fruit capsular ; seeds . . . ? — A shrub ; twigs articu- 

 late annular at nodes ; leaves opposite petiolate, ovately acute 

 serrulate, glabrous ; lateral nerves nearly parallel to margin ; flowers^^ 

 few in terminal cymes/^ (Madagascar, ^^) 



^ Small, pink. of its inflorescence. 



2 Spec. 4. S. nepalensisWAL.ij. — S.Javanensls ^ gpec. 2. Jack, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 11 

 ZoLL. et MoR. Verz. 12. — S. grandiflora Griff. (Melastoma) . — Korth. Ferh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 

 Notul. iv. 678. — S. lanceolata Wall. loc. cit. — 252, t. 57.— Walp. Rep. v. 717; Ann. Hi. 886. 

 Bexx. pi. Jav. Mar. 2li.—So)/erila Naudiniana ^ Prodr. iii. 152; Mem. M^last. 54 (part). — 

 MiQ. Fl. Ind.-But. i. 5eo.—Osbeckia ovataZoiA.. Endl. Gen. n. 6226.— Naud. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 

 Flira (1847), 665. 3, xiv. t. 7; xv. 49.— B. H. Gen. 753, n. 68.— 



3 Flora (1831), 507 ; Mus. Ludg.-Dat.i. 12.— Tri. Melast. 74, t. 5, fig. 69. 

 Endl. Ge . n. 6256.— Naud. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. ^o Moderate. 



3, XV. 332. — B. H. Gen. 734, n. 74. — Tri. Melast. " A gen. JBlastiis, connecting the Oxysporeee 



77, t. 6, fig. 73. — Hook. FL. Ind. ii. 541. with the SoneriIe<B, and yet hy the nature of its 



■* One terminal, sometimes, as said, solitary. flowers resembling the legitimate Melastomece. 



« Small, pink. 12 Spec. 1. P. chrysophyUa DC. loc. cit. 153, 



^ Said to be bare, in P. gymnantha Korth. n. \.—M. chrysophyUa Desrx. LamTc. Diet. iv. 



7 A genus distinct from the preceding chiefly 50, n. 52 (not Rich.). — Walp. Ann. iii. S67. 

 by its longer receptacle and the sin3;ular nature 



