j Lx. MELASTOMACEJ). (0. B. Clarke.) 546 



rowed upwards, calyx-mouth appearing only as a scar. Korth. Vei-h. Nat. Gesch. 

 Bot 267 ; Naud. in Ann. So. Nat. ser. 3. xv. 76 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 

 626 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 83. Melastoma gracile, Jack in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xiv. 14 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 149. M. fallax, Wall. Cat. 4080. ? M. glauca, 

 Griff. Ic. Fl. Asiat. 637. 



PmAHG and Singapore ; Wallich. — Distrib. Malay Archipelago. 



Leaves 3 in. ; petiole sometimes f in. Nodes of pamole often thickened. Stamens 

 8 or 4, as in the two preceding species. Fetals nearly white (.lack). Bracts \ in., 

 oblong, much exceeding the expanding buds. 



16. .A.NFIiECTZtU»X, A. Gray. 



Twining shrulDS. Learns opposite, short-petioled, entire, oblong, narrowed 

 upwards, 3-5-nerved from, the case. Flowers not large, white, in terminal pa- 

 moles sometimes leafy at the base. Calyx-tiihe ovoid, limb obscurely 4-lobed or 

 truncate. Petals 4. Stamens 4 perfect ; anthers attenuated upwards, opening 

 by one pore, connective at base shortly appendaged or subnude, never with two 

 long bristles in front ; imperfect stamens 4, 2, or 0, with a rudimentary anther 

 often bicaudate. Ovary 4^celled, free at the apex, with 4 vertical ridges ; 

 style simple ; ovules many, placentas axile. Berry ovoid or globose, crowned 

 with the caiyx-limb. Seeds very many, small, falcate, obovoid; raphe long, 

 lateral. — Disteib. Species 12, extending from Mergui, Pinang and Singapore 

 to Borneo, and the Philippines. 



1. A. g'laucum, Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 84 excl. many of the 

 syn. ; leaves 4r-6 in. from a broad or subcordate base glabrous beneath suddenly 

 narrowed into a short obtuse subcaudate tip. A. cyanocarpum, Kurz in Jaurn, 

 As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 78, not of Triana. Dissochseta spoliate, Naud. in Ann. Se. 

 Nat. ser. 3. xv. 69, t. 4, fig. 1 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 621. Melastoma 

 cemuum. Wall. Cat. 4054, not of Roxh. M. glaucum, Wall. Cat. 4065. Os- 

 beckia tetrandra, Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 224. 



PnfANS ; Wallich. Mergui and Malay Peninsttla ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 

 MaingaylSo. 793-2. Tenasseeim or Andahans; Heifer (Ksw Distrib. No. 

 2290). — Distrib. Malay Archipelago. 



Flowers cernuous. . Shorter stamens 4, 2orO. Fruit ^-^-^ in. broad. Fedicelss.ni 

 ealyx-tube minutely puberulous, plant otherwise glabrous.^^l. cyanoca/rpum, Triana, 

 has the stem somewhat thickly covered with long spreading bristles. None of the 

 plants collected within the area of the Indian Flora show such bristles : the two spe- 

 cies may not be distinct, but Mr. Kurz, while not uniting them, says that Heifer's 

 No. 2290 is Triana's A. cyanocarpum, which must be wrong, as Triana has written A. 

 glaucrum on Heifer's No. 2290. 



2. A. pallens, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 38 ; leaves 1^-2^ in. glabrous or mi- 

 nutely puberulous beneath 3-nerved (scarcely 6-nerved) suddenly narrowed into 

 a long ohtuse suhcaudate tip. Naud. in Arm. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xv. 304 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 654 ; Triana in Trans. Idnn. Soc. xxviii. 84. Melastoma 

 petiolare, Wall. Cat. 4063. 



Pinang ; Wallich, Porter. Malacca ; Mainyay No. 795, 2663. — Distrib. Sumatra, 

 Borneo. 



Shorter stamens usually 0. Fruit § in. broad, glabrous. Young calyx-tube often 

 minutely but densely rufous tomentose. — Some of the Archipelago examples have 

 leaves i\ in. and are then very like A. glaucum. 



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