1877.] Knoioledge of the Burmese Flora. 75 



Hab. Var. a. in Chittagong (Roxb.) ; not unfrequent on hill-pas- 

 tures and the drier hill-forests especially the pine-forests, of the Martaban 

 hills, at 3500 to 5000 ft. elevation ; var. /?. on jungle pastures of the low 

 forests of Pegu ; var. y. Taong-dong and Rangoon, teste Triana. — Fl. Decb. ; 

 Fr. March — June. 



3. O. CRmiTA, Bth. ap. Naud. in Ann. d. sc. nat. XIV. 72 ; Triana. 

 in Linn. Trans. XXVIII. 53 {Melastoma crinitum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 402). 



Hae. Chittagong (Roxb.) ; not unfrequent in the drier hill-forests, 

 especially in open grassy places, of the Martaban hills east of Tounghoo, at 

 4000 to 7000 ft. elevation.— Fr. March. 



4. 0. Nepalensis, Hook. Fl. Exot. t. 31 ; Naud. in Ann. d. sc. nat. 

 Bot. XIV. 68 and XIII. t. 7. f . 2 ; Bot. Reg. t. 1475 ; Triana in Linn. 

 Trans. XVIII. 55. 



Hab. Ava, Khakyen hills. — Fr. March. 



5. 0. ASPERiCATJLis, Hf . in Linn. Trans. XXVIII. 55. 

 Hab. Tenasserim? (Helf. 2244). 



Otanthera, Bl. 



1. O. BRACTEATA, Korth. Verb. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 235. t. 51 ; Naud. 

 in Ann. d. sc. nat. 3 ser. XIII. 354 : Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 516 ; Triana 

 in Linn. Trans. XXVIII. 55. 



Hab. Apparently frequent in Tenasserim, from the Attaran district 

 southwards to Mergui. — Fl. Febr. — July. 



Melastoma, L. 



Conspectus of Species. 



X Leaves more or less appressed bristly hairy or pubescent, 



+ Calyx covered with closely appressed chafly scale- like bristles. 

 Scales of calyx about \ lin. long or longer, often rather broad, the calycine lobes shoi-- 

 ter, often only half as long as the tube ; leaves usually appressed-strigose on both 



sides, usually acute, .- . . . M. Malabathricum, 



Scales of calyx up to a line long, chaffy, ciliate or finely cleft, the calycine lobes about 

 as long as the tube, ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, alternating with as many short 

 subulate teeth ; leaves on both sides, or beneath only, softly appressed-pubescent, 



usually acimiinate, * M. normale. 



■>r + Calyx covered with squarrose more or less spreading scale-like 

 bristles about 2 lin. long. 



Leaves softly appressed-pubescent on both sides, M. Houtteanum, 



X X Leaves glabrous, or only with a few scales on the nerves beneath. 

 Calyx covered with long fine spreading curved bristles, the accessoxy teeth nearly as 



long as the calyx-lobes themselves, M. decemfidum. 



1, M. Malabatheictjm, L. sp. pi. 559 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 11. 405 ; 

 Naud. in Ann. d. sc. nat. 3 ser. XIII. 285 ; WA. Prod. I. 324 ; Bot. Reg. 

 t. 672 ; Wight 111. I. t. 95 ; Trian. in Linn. Trans. XXVIII. 59. {Trem- 

 lleya rhynanthera, Griff. Not. Dicot. 677). 



