420 
Srsc. Cuan. Scandent: leaves roundish, smooth: calyx 4= 
toothed: petals 4, obcordate, about as long as the calycine-seg~ 
ments : calyx-with a hairy gland under the insertion of-the stamens: 
apikes axillary, solitary, long-peduncled, crowded with numerous 
‘small, straw-coloured flowers : fruit lancéolate, 4-angled. 
Silhet, flowering in January and February. 
(4) C. costatum. (Rozxb.) 
Ident. Roxb. fl. Ind. IL. p. 227. 
Spec. Cuar. Large scandent shrub: leaves oblong, tapering, 
pointed ; calyx obscurely 4-toothed, smooth and even on both sides: 
petals 4, very small, lanceolate: spikes axillary and terminal, single 
or in pairs: flowers small, dull yellow. 
Silhet, flowering in the hot season. 
(5) C. acuminarum. (Roxb. J 
Ident. Roxb. fi. Ind. TE. p. 228. 
Syn. Embryogonia acuminata, Blume in Walp. dan. IV. p. 
172. 
Srec. Caar. Scandent: leaves somewhat opposite and alter= 
nate, from oblong to ovate-lanceolate, cordate at the base, villous 
beneath: calyx acutely 4-toothed, with a very hairy ring inside 
below the insertion of the stamens: petals 4, round-oval: spikes 
peduncled, shorter than the leaves,-villous: flowers numerous, small, 
yellow. 
Silhet, flowering im March and April. 
ORDER LXII. MELASTOMACEZ. 
Trees shrubs or herbaceous plants: leaves opposite, simple, 
entire, rarely dottec, ribbed or 3-9-nerved: calyx 4-6-lobed or 
toothed: petals equal to the segments of the calyx and either 
springing from. their base or from the edge of a disk that lines 
the calyx, twisted in zestivation: stamens either equal in number 
to the petals and alternate with them or usually twice as many, 
the alternate ones of a different shape and not fertile: filaments 
curved downwards in zstivation: anthers long, 2-celled, open- 
ing by two terminal pores at the apex: connectivum produced 
below the cells into a kind of beak: ovary with several cells, 
more or less coherent with the calyx: ovules definite or indefi- 
nite: style 1: stigma simple, capitate or reduced to a mere 
