526 LX. MELABTOMACEJ!. (0. B. Clarke.) {^Chyspora. 



Leaves 4-5 in. (in some examples attaining li^ in.), ovate, acute ; petiole 1—2 in., 

 at its apex are some rongh bristles. Longer stamens with the anther-cells diver^g 

 lielow the truncate base of the conneetiTe ■where the filament is attached. Fruit 

 I by 1 in. 



2. O. varans, Wall. Cat. 4ffI5, partly ; braschlets petioles and nerves of 

 the leaves beneath with some scattered patent villous hairs, capsule elliptic pro- 

 minenliy narrowed below the enlarged calyx-mouth, seeds blunt-headed witii a 

 sharp right angle at the top of the back and a very short point at the top in 

 front. 0. vagans, var. a. Wall. PI. As. JRar. p. 78 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soe. 

 ixviii. 73 ; Kurz For. Ft. i. 505. Melastoma vagans, Ro.Th. Hort. Beag. 33 ; 

 Fl, Ind. ii. 404. Homocentria vagans, Naud. in Ann. 8c. Nat. ser. 3. xv. 308. 



Mishmee; Griffith. Khasia Mts., alt. 1000-3000 ft., common. Chtptagonq; 

 Boxburgh. 



A rather smaller shrub than the preceding with the panicle generally more 

 dender. Longer stamens with the anther-cells slightly produced at the base, con- 

 nective having added to its base a linear spxi.^—WaM,. Cat. 4075 contains some 0. 

 paniculata not any 0. cermia. 



3. O. cemua, Triana in Trains. lAnn. Soc. xxviii. 73 ; glabrous, capsule 

 elliptic truncate hardly narrowed below the calyx-mouth, seeds simply falcate. ; 

 Kurz For. Fl. i. 505. 0. vagans var. /3. Wall. Pi. As. Har. p. 78. Melastoma 

 cemua, JRoxb. Sort. Beng. 33 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 404. AJlozygia cemua, Naud. in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xv. 309. 



Mjshmee; Griffith (Kew Distrib. Ko. 2262); Chtttagong, alt. 0-1000 ft; 

 H./. # T. 



A shrub, generally resembling O. paniculata. Leaves commonly 6 in., attaining 

 1 2^ in. in some examples ; petiole 2 in. Kachis of the panicle somewhat sharply 

 quadrangular at the base, but cannot be said to be 4-winged in any of the specimens 

 at Kew (as Eoxburgh states it to be). Longer stamens with the anther-cells shortly 

 |irodnced and diveiging below the truncate base of the connective where the filament 

 is attached. 



5. K.ENDXtXCK.IAj.H'oo^./'. 



A climber, ascending to the top of the highest trees, when in blossom ting- 

 ing the forest red. Leaves opposite, petioled, oblong or obovate, obtuse, fleshy. 

 Flowers terminal, in few-flowered umbels or solitary, large ; peduncles stout, 2- 

 bracteolate. Caly.v urn-shaped, rose-purple ; limb shortly 4r-toothed, greenish. 

 Petals 4, fleshy, a fine red. Stamens 8, equal ; anthers at the attenuated summit 

 opening by one pore, at the base shortly produced, connective having a horn 

 ahout ^ in. at the base. Ovary inferior, 4-6-celled ; style simple, filiform ; ovules 

 very many, placentas axUe, fleshy. Capsule globose, 1-celled by absorption of 

 the septa, opening at the apex by 4-6 vsdves. Seeds very many, minute, 

 prismatic. 



1. Xi. Walkeri, Hooh.f. in Gen. PI i. 752 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxviii. p. 75, t. vi. fig. 70. Pachycentria Walkeri, Thwaites Enum. 107. 

 Medinilla ? Walkeri, Wight III. i. p. 217 ; Gardn. in Cede. Jmum. Nat. Hist. 

 viii. p. 11. 



ANAHAiiATS ; Col. Bcddome. Cetlon, alt. 3000-5000 ft. ; Wight ; Walker ; Gard- 

 ner, Thwaites. 



Stems in their lower part creeping up trees like ivy, hence flattened with the leaves 



