JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



Vol. LX1X. Part II. — NATURAL SCIENCE. 



No. I.— 1900. 



I. — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. — By Sir George 

 King, K.C.I.E., M.B., LL.D., F.R.S., &c, late Superintendent of the 

 Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. 



No. 11. 



After about two years of unavoidable delay, I am now able to offer 

 to the Society a further contribution towards the completion of these 

 Materials. The paper now submitted gives an account of the natural 

 order which, in the sequence hitherto followed, falls to be numbered 

 XLV1I. An account of the family Myrtacem which ought, according 

 to that sequence, to have immediately preceded this one of Melastomacese 

 is now in preparation, and will I hope before long be ready for presen- 

 tation to the Society. The present paper is not entirely my own 

 work, the account of the genus Sonerila having been most kindly 

 prepared for me by Dr. 0. Stapf, First Assistant in the Royal Herbarium, 

 Kew, whose contributions to the Botany of Borneo, published by the 

 Linnean Society of London, have already marked him as an authority 

 on the Malayan Flora. 



Order XLVII. MELASTOMACESE. 



Herbs or shrubs, more rarely trees or climbers. Leaves opposite 

 or rarely whorled, generally petioled, entire or nearly so, often 

 palmately 3-5-7-nerved from near the base to the apex (mostly pinnate- 

 veined in Memecylon) ; stipules 0. Flowers spiked, panicled or cymose, 

 J. ii. 1 



