52 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



slightly curved. — Erect or oftener sarmentose shrubs, sometimes but 

 rarely subherbaceous (Dicellandra), glabrous or scaly ; leaves oftener 

 entire, 3-5-nerved ; flowers ^ in more or less compound racemose 

 cymes, terminal and axillary or lateral ; lateral bracteoles small, but 

 sometimes (Creochiton) wide navicular, fleshy or coriaceous, valvately 

 enfolding the bud, deciduous. (Asia, trop. Oceania and Africa, 

 Malacca,^) 



29. Marumia Bl.^ — Flowers nearly of Medinilla, 4-merous ; re- 

 ceptacle tubular or subcampanulate, externally setose or plumose. 

 Sepals 4, 8 -angular or lanceolate, reduplicately valvate, thick, persis- 

 tent. Petals 4, obovate, contorted. Stamens 8 ; the alternipetalous 

 longer; connective long produced at base, internally long 2-setose, 

 but externally often setose or variously spurred ; the oppositipetalous 

 smaller ; connective less or scarcely produced, internally more shortly 

 2-setose, externally more sparsely setose or bare ; anthers of all 

 elongately subulate, curved subrostrate, at apex attenuate 1-porous. 

 Germen more or less free, setose or pilose above ; style slender, at 

 apex stigmatose truncate. Fruit baccate clothed with receptacle and 

 calyx ; seeds oo , ovoidly dimidiate ; raphe more or less laterally pro- 

 minent. — Sarmentose shrubs, sometimes climbing ; indumentum 

 tomentose or scaly, oftener abundant ; branches thickened at nodes ; 

 leaves opposite petiolate entire, 3-5-nerved; flowers* in lateral 

 pedunculate cymes. (Philipijine and Malayan islands.^) 



30. Monochsetiim DC.® — Flowers 4-merous ; ' receptacle tubular 

 or subcampanulate. Sepals 4, ovately acute or lanceolate, subequal 

 to or shorter than receptacle. Petals 4, unsymmetrically obovate, 



» White, pink or purple. * Spec, about 10. Vent. Choix de PL t. 32 



2 Spec, about 30. Bl. i?i;*<?r. 1068, 1074 (lf«/a- {Maieta) .—Km. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. 1, 532.— 

 stoma). — Jack, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 12, 14 Korth. Fer. iVo^. 6^,?5C^. t. 59, 60. — Jack, Tmw*. 

 {Melastoma). — Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. t. 6o, Linn. Soc. xiv. 6 (Melastoma). — DC. Prodr. iii. 

 66.— MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 521, 531 {Ompha- 167, n. 4 (Huberia) .—Bl. Pumphia, i. t. 4, 5.— 

 lopus), 559 {Creochiton).— Walt. Pep. ii. 144, 145 Walp. Pep. ii. 145 ; Ann. ii. 609 ; iii. 874. 

 {Apkctrum); Y.7I0 (Dalejiia), 717; Ann. u. 607, ^ Prodr. iii. 138 {Arthrostemmatis sect. 5). — 

 608 {ApUctrum, Balenia) ; iv. 796 {Creochitoti) . Naud. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, iv. 48, t. 2 ; xiv. 157. 



3 Flora (1831), 503; Mus. Ludg.^Bat. i. 33.— — B. H. Gen. 747, n. 48.— Tri. Melast. 62, t. 5, 

 Endl. Gen. n. 6254.— Naud. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. fig. 49. — H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. %o. — Icevigia 

 3, XV. 279, t. 12.— B. H. Gen. 755, n. 87.— Tri. Karst. etTRi. linna-a, x-^viii. iZi.— Grisc/ioiiia 

 Melast. 82, t. 6, fig. 88.— Hook. PI. Ind. ii. 541. Karst. Ausw. N. Getv. 15, t. 5. 



— MacroUnes Naud. loc. cit. 311. ' Very rarely 5-inerous. 

 ■♦ Pink or red, sometimes rather large. 



