1877.] Knowledge of tlie Burmese "Flora. 79 



Korth. Verb. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 238. t. 56 ; Naud. in Ann. d. sc. nat. 3 ser. 

 XV. 71 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 522.) 



Hab. Kare in the tro^^ical forests of Martaban, east of Tounghoo ; 

 Tenasserim (Helf. 2290). 



Doubtful Species. 



1. A. ? harhatum^ Triana in Linn. Trans. XXVIII. 84 {Melastoma 

 harhatum, Wall. Cat. 4082). 



Hab. Tenasserim, Cbappedong (Wall.). 



2. Melastoma cordlfolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 405. 

 Hab. Chittagong (Roxb.). 



Probably same as A. cyanocarpum. 



3. Melastoma curva, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 406. 

 Hab. Chittagong (Roxb.) 



Pternandra, Jack. 

 Conspectus of Species. 



Flowers in small stout almost simple cymes, P, capitellata. 



Flowers in branched rather slender axillary and terminal jDanicles, .... P. cmrulescens. 



1. P. CAPITELLATA, Jack in Mai. Misc. II. 60 ; Triana in Linn. 

 Trans. XXVIII. 153. 



Hab. Tenasserim (or Andamans ?) (Helf. 2279 teste Triana). 



2. P. CCEEULESCENS, Jack in Mai. Misc. 1822. II. 61 and in Hook. 

 Comp. Bot. Mag. I. 157 ; Triana in Linn. Trans. XXVIII. 153. {Ewyc- 

 hia Jackiana, Walp. Rep. V. 724 ; Apteuxis trinervis, Griff. Not. Dicot. 

 672 ; Ewychia paniculata, Miq. Suppl. Fl. Sumatr. 321). 



Hab. Tenasserim (Helf. 2275). 



Memecylon, L. 



Conspectus of Species. 



* Calyx within without radiate lamella-like nerves, or the nerves very obsolete 



(chiefly Hindustani species). 

 Leaves sessile or nearly so, opaque, drying yellowish ; cymes sessile, umbel-like ; calyx 

 conspicuously 4-toothed, M. umhellatum. 



* * Calyx radiately nerved within, the nerves simple or forked, raised and lamella- 



liJce like the gills of a mushroom. 



X Berry ovoid or ovoid-oblong. Cymes and pedicels very short and 

 robust. 

 Leaves sessile or very shortly petioled, with the base rounded or cordate, M. coertiletim. 

 X X Berry globose, the size of a pea to that of a cherry. 



f Cymes short and sometimes reduced. Leaves usually thick coria- 

 ceous, without visible lateral nerves or veins, petioled. 

 ^ Berries the size of a pea or smaller. 



f Branchlets more or less terete, sometimes marked with 

 obsolete lines. 



Calyx up to a line in diameter, not tubercled. 



