208 MelastomaceCB. [Medinilla. 



12. S. pedunculosa, Thw. Enum. 109 (ic 

 Cogn. 1. c. 493. C. P. 3091. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 531. 



Stems prostrate, rooting at the nodes, with long inter- 

 nodes, glabrous ; 1. \\-2\ in., broadly ovate, rounded or sub- 

 cordate at base, obtuse or rounded at apex, finely crenate- 

 serrate, with numerous scattered coarse hairs above, nearly 

 glabrous beneath, penninerved, flaccid, often purplish beneath ; 

 racemes small, at end of long, erect, slightly glandular-pilose 

 peduncles terminating short axillary branches ; fl. small, \ in. 

 diam.; cal. with scattered glandular hairs ; anth. short, acute; 

 capsule small, under \ in., turbinate, smooth, faintly ribbed. 



Moist low country below 1000 ft.; rare. Hiniduma ; Mapalagama; 

 Pasdun Korale. Fl. Aug., Sept.; pinkish-violet. 



Also in Travancore. 



In a young state the leaves are crowded, and form a sort of rosette 

 on the ground, and the peduncles look like scapes. 



\Marumia zeylanica, Bl., is said to have been sent from Ceylon by 

 Kcenig and Van Royen. If so, the plant must have been cultivated here, 

 but it is more probable that the specimens were collected at Malacca 

 or in Java.] 



5. MEDINILLA. Gaud. 



Epiphytic shrubs, 1. opp., fleshy, 3- or 5 -nerved, fl. few, 

 axillary; cal.-tube campanulate, adnate to ov., fleshy, limb 

 produced, segm. 4, obscure ; pet. 4; stam. 8, equal, anth. with 

 two short projections at base and a short spur behind ; ov. 

 inferior, 4-celled, with numerous ovules, style simple ; fruit 

 soft, crowned with cal.-limb.; seeds numerous, ovoid. — Sp. 100 

 (Cogniaux) ; 1 1 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Branches cylindrical, 1. 5-nerved . . . . 1. M. FUCHSIOIDES. 

 Branches quadrangular, 1. 3-nerved . . . 2. M. maculata. 



1. T/L. fuchsioides, Gardn. in Calc.Joum. Nat. Hist. viii. 12 (1847). 

 Thw. Enum. 106. C. P. 138. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 548. 



An epiphytic shrub, dichotomously branched, branches 

 stout, cylindrical, marked with leaf-scars, bark smooth, greyish 

 white ; 1. 2-3 in., rhomboid-lanceolate, narrowed to both ends, 

 but rounded at the actual base, obtuse or subacute at apex, 

 glabrous, paler and with very minute scattered glands be- 

 neath, 5-nerved, the marginal pair faint, the others strongly 

 marked, petiole very short, stout, crimson ; fl. rather large, 

 f in. long, solitary or 2 or 3 on a common peduncle, from 

 axils of fallen 1., pendulous, ped. as long as cal., much thick- 



