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Petals 4, broadly ovate, acute. Stamens 8 ; anthers equal, linear-lanceo- 

 late, much acuminate, curved, the tubercles at the front of the base 

 as long as the posterior basal spur from the connective. Fruit 

 unknown. 



Perak; King's Collector 2390. 



5. Medinilla Hasseltit, Blume in Flora, 1831, p. 513. Epiphytal 

 on trees, 3 or 4 feet high ; branches slender, terete, pale, more or less 

 prominently warted (the warts black). Leaves opposite, coriaceous, 

 oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed to the rounded base, 3-nerved, 

 with sometimes a faint, additional lateral pair ; length 4*5 to 5*5 in. ; 

 breadth 1'25 to 1*75 in; petioles '15 to *35 in. Cymes axillary or from 

 the axils of fallen leaves, less than half as long as the leaves, (more than 

 half as long in var. Griffithii), broader than long; the branches divari- 

 cate, 8-12-flowered, minutely bracteolate. Floivers '35 in. long. Calyx- 

 tube campanulate-cylindric, somewhat constricted below the minutely 

 4-toothed. mouth. Petals 4, obovate- oblong. Stamens 8, equal ; the 

 anthers linear-oblong, somewhat curved, the base with two short, black, 

 conical protuberances in front and a similar one behind. Fruit globular, 

 truncate, '2 to '25 in. in diam. Miq. Fl. Ind. I, pt. I, 542 ; C. B. 

 Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 547 ; Cogn. in DO. Mon. Phan. VII, 

 586. Melastoma laurifolium in Wall. Cat. 4084 (not of Blume). 

 Medinilla crassifolia, Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVIII, 86 (in 

 part). 



MALACCA; Griffith (Kew Distrib.) 2282; Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 

 797, Wallich 4084. Perak ; very common. Singapore ; Anderson. 

 Sungei Ujong; Ridley 2205, Selangore ; Curtis 2334; Ridley 286. 

 Pangkore ; Curtis 1642. 



Distrib. Java, Sumatra. 



Vae. Griffithii, C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 547. 

 Cymes much branched, more than half as long as the leaves, many- 

 flowered. 



Malacca; Griffith (Kew Distrib.) 2282. 



6. Medinilla Scortechinii, King, n. sp. Epiphytal, 3 or 4 feet 

 high ; stems as thick as a goose-quill, the bark brown (when dry), 

 sparsely verrucellate. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, glabrous, sessile, 

 stem-clasping, oblong-ovate to oblong, shortly acuminate, the base 

 sub-cordate, 3-nerved, with occasionally a faint pair at the margin; 

 length 45 to 6'5 in. ; breadth 1*5 to 2*75 in. Panicles cymose, axillary, 

 rather shorter than the leaves, very lax, spreading; the branches 

 Blender, minutely bracteolate at the divarications ; the branchlets 

 compressed, sometimes 2-winged. Floivers nearly *4 in. long, on pedicels 

 as long as themselves. Calyx-tube campanulate, the mouth not much 



