mt.) MELASTOMACE. 495 
+Flowers large, showy ; calyx-tube urceolate, in fruit produced beyond 
apex of ovary into a tubular neck ; shrubs :—[p. 494 
Branches many, spreading, densely clothed with short, adpressed, 
rigid hairs; neck of calyx half as long as fruiting ovary...stellata. 
Branches none or few, virgate, glabrous of with few scattered, 
spreading hairs; neck of calyx as long as fruiting ovary oF longer 
rostrata. 
pwards but not beaked ; 
of which 5 are 
z *Perianth always 5-merous ; anthers narrowed U 
-calyx-tube campanulate with large, flat, pectinate scales, 
alternate with the broad-lanceolate calyx-teeth; ® shrub [p. 494] 
nepalensis. 
809, Ospeckra rRUNcATA Don; F. B. I. ii. 514. 
hota Nagpur; E. Bengal. ; 
A herb, 4—16 in. high. 
809/2. Var. Kurzu F. B, I. ii. 514. 
Chota Nagpur, Parasnath. 
oe herb, 2 in, high. 
; Be Ceeycura camensis Linn. ; Fels O04 Be I, ii. 515. 
Nagpur; N. and E. Bengal ; Chittagong. 
as A herb, 2 feet high. : 
$11. Ospeckra srectara Wall.; F. 
crinita F. I, ii. 402. 
Chittagong. 
A shrub, 4-6 feet high. 
812. Ospeckra rosTRATA Don; F. B. L ii. 
chella F. 1. ii. 403. 
Bi: dacik BID Melastoma 
517. Melastoma pul- 
and E. Bengal. 
a8 A slender erect shrub, 4-8 feet high. 
. OSBECKIA NEPALENSIS Hook. ; F. Lil. 521. 
N. Bengal, Duars; E. Bengal, Mymensingh. 
A rather rigid shrub. ‘ 
339. Melastoma Linn. 
petioled, oblong oF 
inal, showy; solitary 
5, connate in an 
of limb deciduous. Petals usually 5 
ive produced at base to 
ae purple anthers and with connee 
“natn two lobes, and alternately shorter with yellow anthers, the 
