1900.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 5 



adpressed hairs, the lower glabrous, glandular-punctate ; length 2*5 

 to 5 in., breadth *6 to 1*8 in. ; petiole '25 to "5 in. long. Flowers solitary 

 or two or three together, bright purple, 2 to 3 in. in diam., the bracts 

 few, short, acuminate ; pedicels under *5 in. Calyx-tube densely covered 

 with long, flexuose, shining, coloured, bristly hairs ; 25 to '5 in. long, 

 the teeth rather shorter than the tube, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 glabrous inside, deciduous. Fruit 75 in. in diam., truncate at the apex, 

 ovoid to ovoid- globular, "5 in. in diam. Jack in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV, 

 (1822) 6 ; DC. Prodr. Ill, 146 ; Naud., Ann. So. Nat. Ser. 3, XIII, 282 ; 

 Bl. Mus. Bot. I, 55 ; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 345. M. sanguineum, 

 Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 2241 ; DO. Prodr. Ill, 145 ; Don in Mem. Wern. 

 Soc. IV, 289; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 504; Naud. I.e. 281 ; Triana 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. 60 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 524 ; 

 Hemsl. in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII, 300. M. malabathrica, Sims in Bot. 

 Mag. (not of Linn.) 529. M. Gaudichaudianum, Naud. I.e. 278. 

 M. macrocarpum, Naud. I.e. 281 (not of Don). M. porphyream, Bipp. et 

 Bl. in Flora 1831, 11,487. M. pedicellatum, Naud. I.e. 280 ; Cogn. in 

 DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 346. 



Penang ; Wallich 4042 ! King, Curtis 683. Malacca ; Griffith 

 (K.D.) 2245/1 ! Maingay 773, 774 ! Ridley 3228. Pahang ; Ridley 2667. 

 Kedah ; Ridley 5211. Perak ; Scortechini 2123 ! King's Collector 1540, 

 1853, 8754. Distrib. Burma, China, Hongkong, Tonkin. 



Var. mollis, Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 524. Young branches 

 very hispid throughout their whole length ; leaves with numerous sub- 

 adpressed and spreading stiff hairs on both surfaces, especially on the 

 nerves. Vidal Syn. PL Filip. t. 51 ; fig. 1). M. molle, Wall. Cat. 4046 ; 

 Triana in Linn. Trans. XXVIII, 60; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. 

 VII, 346. M. crinitum, Naud. I.e. 524. M. malabathricum Blanco, Fl. 

 Filip. Ed. Ill, tab. 152 (not of Linn.). 



Singapore ; Wallich. Distrib. Luzon ; Cuming 853. 



2. Melastoma imbricatum, Wall. Cat. 4047. A spreading shrub, 

 5 to 15 feet high ; young branches (especially at the nodes and tips), 

 petioles, pedicels and calyx covered with adpressed, lanceolate acuminate, 

 serrulate scales. Leaves elliptic-oblong to ovate-oblong, rather abruptly 

 narrowed at the base, the apex acute or acuminate ; main nerves 5 

 (the two lateral slender) ; both surfaces strigose, the main nerves on 

 the lower with adpressed scales ; length 3*5 to 8 - 5 in., breadth 1-5 

 to 45 in., petiole 35 to 135 in. Cymes solitary, terminal, condensed, 

 1*5 to 2 in. in diam., enclosed in bud by deciduous, lanceolate bracts 

 and bracteoles. Flowers 7 to 15, 1*25 in. in diam.; the pedicels 15 in. 

 long. Calyx-tube urceolate, the teeth shorter than the tube, lanceolate- 

 acuminate, deciduous. Petals oblong. Anthers short. Fruit ovoid- 

 globose or sub-globose, truncate and shortly toothed at the mouth, 



