54 G. King — Materials for a Flora of tlie Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 



in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV, 14; DC. Prodr. Ill, 349. M. fallax, Wall. 

 Cat. 4080. ? M. glauca, Griff. Ic. PI. As. 637. M. vacillans, var. pallens, 

 Blume, Bijdr. 1074. 



In all the provinces except the Nicobar and Andaman Islands. 

 Distrib. Java, Borneo. 



7. Djssochsta celebica, Blume, Mus. Bot. I, 36. A slender 

 creeper ; young branches, petioles and under surfaces of the leaves, also 

 the panicles, densely clothed with rusty, scurfy, stellate tomentum, 

 Leaves 3-nerved, membranous, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, the base 

 rounded, the apex shortly acuminate ; upper surface glabrous except the 

 stellate-pubescent midrib ; length 2*5 to 5 in. ; breadth 1 to 2 in. ; petiole 

 •2 to '25 in. Panicles lateral and terminal, the former slightly longer and 

 the lateral several times longer than the leaves, ebracteate, the branches 

 divaricating, the ultimate branches cymose, 3-flowered. Flowers *3 in. 

 long (including the stamens). Calyx-tube oblong-campanulate, slightly 

 widened and 4-toothed at the mouth, somewhat longer than the pedicel. 

 Petals 4, broadly oblong, blunt. Stamens 4 ; anthers equal, short, blunt 

 and with no apical appendage, opening by 2 apical pores. Fruit 

 sub-globular, crowned by the narrow limb of the calyx, faintly 8-ribbed, 

 sparsely pubescent or sub-glabrous, '35 to '2 in. in diam. C. B. Clarke 

 in Hook, fi], Fl. Br. Ind. II, 544; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 561 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 530 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVIII, 83. 

 D. microcarpa, Naud. in Aim. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XV, 72 ; Miq. I.e. 523. 

 D. bancana, Miq. I.e. 529. Melastoma fallax, Wall. Cat. 4050; ? Jack 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV, 13. M. rubiginosum, Wall. Cat. 4052, partly. 

 In all the provinces except the Nicobar and Andaman Islands ; 

 common. Distrib. Bangka, Celebes, Borneo. 



Var. contracta, King. Panicle solitary, terminal, short, condensed, 

 not longer than the leaves. 



Perak ; King's Collector 2911. 



8. Dissoch^ta intermedia, Blume in Flora, 1831, 493. A some- 

 what slender creeper, resembling B. celebica in its other parts, but 

 with larger flowers (5 in. long), pointed in bud ; larger fruit (*2 to *25 in. 

 in diam.); calyx-tube with a truncate, toothless mouth; ovate, acute 

 petals, and longer stamens narrowed to and appendiculate at the apex. 

 Blume, Mus. Bot. I, 35, tab. V; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XV, 72 ; 

 Miq.Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 524 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVIII, 

 83, tab. VII, fig. 89 f. ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 544 ; 

 Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 562. Melastoma rubiginosum, Wall. Cat. 

 4052 (in part). 



Malacca ; Griffith (K.D.) 2287 ; Heifer (K.D.) 2286. Penang and 

 Singapore ; Wallich. Perak ; Scortechini. Distrib. Java, Borneo. 



