iAsfrmia.] lx. melastomace^. (0. B. Clarke.) 651 



Leaves 4-5 in., lanceolate and broad-lanceolate, narrowed to toth ends ; petiole 

 ^-1^ in. Panicle 1-3 in., ultimate pedicels 0-| in. Petals less than | in., obovate. 

 Cajasule ^-| in. broad, ovoid or hemispheric. 



19. PTEZtNAMSRA, Jack. 



Glabrous shrubs with round branches. Leaves opposite, sessile or short^pe- 

 tioled, ovate or lanceolate, entire, coriaceous, 3-nervett. Flowers small, in axil- 

 lary (and terminal) small cymes or panicles. Calyx-tube verrucose, campanulate ; 

 limb truncate, obscurely 4-toothed. Petals 4, blueish or white. Stamens 8, 

 equal ; filaments short, subulate ; anthers broad-oblong, obtuse at both ends, 

 Opening by slits, connective simple at the base or very shortly spurred behind. 

 Ovary inferior, 4-Celled, apex flat glabrous ; style long, stigma clavate ; ovules 

 very many, placentas sut-basal. Berry ovoid, truncate. Seeds very mary, 

 cuneate-obovoid, raphe excurrent on one side towards the end, somewhat an- 

 gular. — DismiB. Species 6 (or perhaps 2 only), from Pinang and Malacca 

 through Malaya to the Philippines. 



1. P. caerulescens, Jack in Mai. Misc. ii. 61 ; leaves 2J-4J in. ovate 

 or lanceolate, stamens blue. Wall. Cat. 4077 ; Triana in Trans. Lim/n. Soc. 

 xxviii. 153 ; Xurz For. Fl. i. 509 and in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 79. 

 Ewyckia cyanea, Blume Rumph. i. 24, t. 8; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 668 ; 

 Triana I. c. E. Jackiana, Walp. Rep. v. 724. E. paniculata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 Siippl. 321 ex Kurz. Apteuxis trinervis, Qriff. Notul. iv. 672. — Nov. Gen. 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii.. 225. 



PiNANO and Maxacca ; Wallich. Mekgtji ; Griffith. Tenasseeim ; Heifer. Ni- 

 COBAES ; Kurz. Malacca ; Cuming, Griffith. — Disxkib. Through Malaya to the 

 Philippines. 



Leaves narrowed at the base ; petiole 0-^ in. Panicles 1-3 in., terminal and in 

 the upper axils, very short-peduncled, often crowded with many flowers, ultimate pe- 

 dicels very short, bracts minute. Berry | in. broad, narrower at the mouth. 



Vab. Jackiana; petioles attaining J in., cymes axillary few-flowered. — Malacca; 

 Griffith; Maingay No. 801. 



2. F. capitellata, Jack in Mai. Misc. ii. Addenda prefixed to the paper 

 p. 3 ; leaves 6-8 in. ovate or broad-eUiptic, cymes hardly 1 in. axillary few- 

 flowered dense. Wall. Cat. 4079 ; W. Sr A. Prodr. 325 ; Triana in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xxviii. 153 ; Kurz For. Fl. i. 509 and in Jowrn. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 

 79. Ewyckia capitellata, Walp. Rep. v. 724 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 568. 

 E. medinilliformis, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xviii. 261. 



Pinang ; Jack, Wallich. Tenasseeim ; Heifer (Kew Distrib. No. 2279). Ma- 

 lacca ; Maingay No. 802. Sinqapobe ; Wallich. 



Leaves widest near the base ; petiole less than J in. — Doubtfully ■ distinct from 

 P. c<erulescens : the leaves are usually much larger while the cymes are smaller. 



3. P. paniculata, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 4080 ; leaves short-petioled nor- 

 mally elliptic or lanceolate, ends of the branches dividing into bundles of small- 

 leaved branchlets on which are the scattered flowers. P. laitifolia, Triana in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 153. Ewyckia latifolia, Blume Mus. Bot: i. 6. 



Pinang; Porter. Malacca; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2273). — Disteie. 

 Sarawak. • 



The normal leaves are about 5 by 2 in., the abnormal leaves on the "panicles " are 

 very narrow lanceolate, often 1 by ^\ in. — This is probably only a p;roliferouB state of 

 P. cceruleacens as Korthals and Miquel treat it. 



