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dorsally furnished with oo elongate and apically obtuse or inflated 

 hairs. Germen semiadherent to receptacle, hirsute at apex, 4-celled. 

 Fruit baccate, crowned with sepals and tube of receptacle ; seeds oo , 

 oblong smooth. — Scaly shrubs ; ^ leaves opposite petiolate oblong 

 entire glabrous ; flowers ^ in terminal ramose compound racemes.^ 

 {Ind, ArchipJ) 



28. Dissochgeta Bl."^ — Flowers 4- or more rarely 5-merous 

 (Sahersia,^ Dlcellandra^) ; receptacle campanulate or turbinate. Calyx 

 4, 5-lobed or dentate, sometimes subentire, more rarely calyptrately 

 circumcissus [Dakma^); accessory teeth small sometimes 4, 5, or 

 oftener 0. Stamens same ^ in number as petals or generally 8-10 ; 

 anthers thick oblanceolate, more or less undulate or reticulate (Om- 

 2)halopiis ^^), connective at base internally exappendiculate, simply or 

 slightly appendiculate, posteriorly (generally shortly) spurred (Creochi- 

 ton,^^ Anplectrum^') ; either long ovately acute ; connective anteriorly 

 2-setose or 2-lamellate (Eudissochceta), more rarely not appendiculate 

 AnoplodissochcBta^^), posteriorly generally spurred (Eudissochceta) ; or 

 narrower, longer pointed, more or less curved {picellandm, Sakersia) ; 

 connective produced, anteriorly 2-spurred, posteriorly bare {Sakersia) 

 or with short acute spur (Dicellandra), sometimes anteriorly and pos- 

 teriorly exappendiculate ; with subulate lateral appendages {Oxyotan- 

 dra ^^). Germen 4, 5-celled, adnate to receptacle, often crowned with 

 epigynous disk, or concave at apex, 5-10-gonal, more rarely {Anplec- 

 irum) 4-cristate ; style simple, sometimes dilated at base, at apex 

 stigmatose truncate or punctiform. Fruit baccate or coriaceous, 

 generally ovoid ; seeds various in form, either straight, or more rarely 



^ Sometimes spuriously parasitic. ii. 459. — Tki. Melast. 81, t. 7, fig. >^5. 



2 Red or pink, small, crowded. ^ Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. 243, t. 58. — Naitd. 



^ A genus diflfering from the small-flowered loc. cit. xv. 276. — B. H. Gen. 758, n. 88. — Tri. 



Medinillas only in the character of the stamens. Melast. 82, t. 7, fig. 87. 



* Spec. 2. KoRTH. Verh. Nat. Gesch. t. 65. — ^ E. g. B. Diepenhorstii Miq. 



Jack, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 19 {Melastoma) . — ^^ Naud. loc. cit. xv. t. 4 (part). — B. H, Gen. 



Bl. Bijdr. 1072 {Melastoma) .—W A.-LL. Cat. n. 759, n. 92.— Tri. Melast. 85, t. 7, fig. 92. 



4086 {Melastoma).— WA.-LV. Rep. ii. 143 ; v. 712; " Bl. Flora (1831), 506.— Endl. Gei>. n. 6255. 



Ann. ii. 606. —Naud. loc. cit. xviii. 153, t. 6.— B. H. Gen. 



^ Flora (1831), 493 (part) ; Mus. Ludg.-Bat. i. 758, n. 91. 



35, t. 5.— Endl. Gen. n. 6246 (part).— Naud. ^^ A. Gray, Un. St. Expl. Exp. Bot. i. 597.— 



Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xv. 72 (part), t. 4, fig. 3, 4. B. H. Gen. 758, n. 90.— Tri. Melast. 84, t. 7, fig. 



— B. H. Gen. 758, n. 89.— H. Bn. Jdansonia, 90.— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 5io.—Aplectrum Bl. 



xii. 88.— Hook. i^;. /nc?. ii. 543. Flora (1831), 502; Muk Luc/d.^Bat. i. 37.— 



6 HooK.F. Gen. 151, n. 85 ; Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. Endl. Gen. n. 6247 (not Nutt.). 



ii. 458.— Tri. Melast. 81, t. 7, fig. 86. J3 The type of which is B. tnappendiculata Bl. 



7 HooK.F. Gen. 151, n. 86 ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i4 h. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 88. 



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