96 40. MYRTACE^. [Careya. 



CAREYA, Roxb. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple. Flowers large, showy. 

 Calyx adnate to the ovaiy ; Umb 4-divided. Petals 4-5. Stamens 

 numerous, free. Ovary inferior, 4-5-celled ; style elongate with a 

 capitate or i-lobed stigma. Fruit globose, fleshy, crowned with the 

 calyx-limb, many seeded. Seeds in a fleshy pulp j cotyledons 0. 



C. arborea, Roxb. Fl. Br. Ind. II. 638 ; Fl. I. 2. 511 ; Brandis For. 

 Fl. 236 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 95 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 205. Kaval, K; 

 humbia, kuba, M. Common throughout the presidency in deciduous forests. 

 Fl. March- April. Fr. ripe July. 



Order 41. MELASTOMACEiE. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, entire, often 3-7-nerved. 

 Flowers, regular hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube united by vertical 

 walls to the ovary, rarely nearly free; limb 4-6- lobed. Petals 3-6, 

 imbricate. Stameus as many or twice as many as the petals, in- 

 serted with them ; anthers opening by pores, rarely by slits ; con- 

 nective often appendaged near the base. Ovary 4-o-l-celled. 

 Ovules several, rarely only 2 to each placenta. Fruit included in 

 the calyx-tube, capsular or berried, breaking up irregularly or by 

 slits through the top of the cells. Seeds minute, many (in Meme- 

 cylon only 1) ; albumen 0. 



A villous shrub. Stamens unequal, Seeds many. 



Leaves .3-7-uerved, palraately from near the base ... Melastoma. 



Glabrous shrubs or trees. Stamens equal. Berry 1- 



seeded. Leaves pinnate nerved Memecylo.v. 



MELASTOMA, L. 



Strigose or villous shrubs. Leaves petioled. Flowers terminal, 

 showy purple, 5-merous. Calyx clothed with bristles, tube bell- 

 shaped ; lobes 5. Petals usually 5. Stamens twice as many as 

 calyx-lobes, anthers opening by a single apical pore, very unequal, 



5 laro-er with the connective produced below in a long appendage, 

 and 5 smaller with the basal appendage shorter or wanting. Ovary 

 5-7-celled more or kss united to the calyx-tube, apex bristly. 

 Fruit bursting irregularly. Seeds minute, very many, minutely 

 punctate. 



M. malabathricum, L. DC. Prod. III. 145 ; Fl. Br. I. 2. 523 ; Dalz. 



6 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 02. Indian rhododendron. Palore, M. Throughout 

 the Konkan and North Kanara in moist forests, often along the banks of 

 nalas near evergreen forests. Fl. throughout the year. 



MEMECYLON, L. 



Leaves coriaceous, short-petioled. Flowers usually small, in axil- 

 lary cymes, clusters or umbellets. Calyx-tube campanulate ; limb 

 'lated, truncate or shortly 4-lobed Petals 4, blue or «vhite, rarely 



