504 MELASTOMACE®. [ Melastoma. 
long, densely covered with short appressed-chaffy scales, the lobes 
lanceolate, more or less acuminate, usually shorter than the tube, 
alternating with the 5 small subulate scales or accessory lobes; 
petals 3 to Zin. long, obovate; connective of the shorter stamens 
at the base excurrent into 2 lobes; berry enclosed and adnate to 
the appressed-chaffy calyx, globular, 8 to 4 lin. in diameter; seeds 
minute, attached to the thick pulpy purple placentas. 
Has.—Frequent all over Burma from Chittagong and Ava down to Tenas- 
serim, especially in shrubby waste places, in savannahs, along river embank- 
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end of the branchlets ; calyx densely covered with appressed-chaffy 
ciliate or finely cleft scales up to a line long, the lobes about as lone 
as the calyx-tube, ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, alternating with 
as many short subulate teeth ; petals obovate, about a line long. 
Has.—Frequent in the drier hill forests of Martaban, up to 5000 ft. eleva- 
tion ; Ava hills.—Fl. March-May.—SS.—Metam, Lat. 
3. M. Houtteanum, Naud.—An evergreen bushy shrub, the 
branches more or less covered with pale-coloured or brown bristly 
scales and sti irs; leaves on shorter or longer chaffy-scal 
petioles, varying from oblong to oblong-lanceolate or almost 
ovate, rounded at the base, 3-5 in. long, acuminate or acute, entire, 
pubescent and chaffy along the 5 principal nerves; flowers conspi- 
cuous, mally 5- occasionally 6-merous, purple or pink, on short 
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rare in the tropical forests along the eastern slopes of the 
2 tol in. long; 
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