Sa/rcopyramis.] lx. melastomace^. (0. B. Clarke.) 541 



opening by 4 valves at the top. Seeds numerous, obovoid, covered with pro- 

 minent raised points, raphe not excurrent. 



1. S. nepalensls, Wall. Tent. Fl. JVep. t. 23; Cat. 4088; Benn. PI. 

 Jav. Mar. 214. S. lanceolata. Wall. Cat. 6290 ; £enn. I. c. ; Kurz in Jowm. As. 

 Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 77. S. grandiflora, Ch-iff. Notul. iv. 678 ; le. PI. Asiat. t. 639. 



NipAL and Sikkim, alt. 4000-9000 ft. ; plentiful. Khasia Mts., alt. 4000-6000 ft. ; 

 plentiful. Burma and Malay Peninsula ; Griffith, Kv/rz. 



Stem often 2-6 in., succulent, -weak, sometimes 18 in. with thick woody branches. 

 Leaves 2-4 in., from ovate to lanceolate, loug-acuminate ; petiole ^-I in. Calyx-tube 

 glabrous, sometimes with minute bundles of hairs between the bases of the teeth. 

 Petals scarcely :^ in. Fruit about Jin., quadrangular, mouth of the calyz-tube very wide. 

 — Triana reduces (i» IVans. JJ/im. Soc. xxviii. 77, 78) to this species Sonerila Natidi- 

 mana Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. p. 565 with syn. But Miquel removed this plant 

 from Ba/rcopyramis because it had 6 stamens : there is no authentic specimen of it at 

 Kew. 



12. PKVIiXiA,GA.TKXS,£;wme. 



Herbaceous small shrubs vrith very short stems. Leaves opposite (or the ter- 

 minal leaf solitary), large, petioled, orbicular, cordate, 7-9-nerved. Flowers in 

 a peduncled dense head, purple. Calj/x-tube csacapamilate, glabrous or with long 

 bristles near the top, teeth 4 (rarely 3), acute, long^setose. Petals 4 (rarely 3), 

 ovate, acute, glabrous. Stamens 8 (rarely 6), equal ; anthers elongate, scarcely 

 produced at the base, donnective without appendage. Ovari/ adnata to the bot- 

 tom of the calyx- tube, 4- (rarely 3-) celled, glabrous at the apex ; style filiform ; 

 ovules very numerous, placentas large axile. Capsule broadly fumiel-shaped, 

 opening by 4 valves at the top. Seeds ellipsoid, somewhat obovoid, with glan- 

 dular hardly raised dots, raphe slightly excurrent along one side of the seed its 

 whole length. — ^Distbib. Species 2 ; one Malayan, one Bomean. 



1. P. rotundifolia, Slume in Flora, 1831, 507 ; leaves glabrous or 

 puberulo-glandular beneath, flower-heads with ovate bracts beneath. Korth. in 

 Verh. Nat. Geseh. Bot. t. 57 ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xv. p. 332 ; Pot. 

 Mag. t. 5282 ; Triana in Trans. Idnn. Soc. xxviii. 77. Melastoma rotundifolium, 

 Jack in Trans. lAnn. Soc. xiv. 12 ; I>C. P-odr. iii. 149. ' 



Malacca ; Griffith, Mamgay. ? Tenasseeim or Andamans, 'Heifer No. 2266. 



Leaves usually 4-9 in. diam., obtuse or acute, entire, usually red beneath ; petiole 

 2-5 in., with long pendent coarse bristles or nearly glabrous. Bracts to the flower 

 head red, ^ id. wide and upwards. Calyx-teeth tcova. short-ovate with a mucro to 

 ovate-lanceolate attenuate. Capsule about \ in., fruiting pedicel about J in. — Hei- 

 fer's No. 2266, in fruit, shows the capsule trigonous with smooth almost convex faces : 

 the other typical examples show the fruit 6-8-ribbed, the ribs prominent : in all these 

 the fruit is over-ripe and the wall partly broken down. Heifer's plant may be a 

 new species or even a new genus ; but the leaves are exceedingly like the well-marked 

 leaves oi Phyllagathis. 



l3. JUtATiVTIlTA., Blume. 



Twining shrubs ; branches round, thickened at the nodes. Leaves opposite, 

 short-petioled, coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, cordate at the base, 3-nerved from 

 the base besides two submarginal nerves, entire, tomentose beneath. Cymes 

 axillary ; flowers 3-5, large, pedicelled, purple or white. Calyx-tube cylindric, 



