430 
‘flowers tetramerous, laterat and terminal at the tops of the branch- 
lets which are disposed in panicles, somewhat sessile: calycine- 
teeth linear, narrow, bristly at the apex: tube oblong, tufted, as it 
were, with stellate-bristly hairs at the top, caducous : anthers subu- 
late-rostrate : conneetivum very short below ‘the cells. 
«- Silhet and Assam. 
(17) 0. staztata. (Bon.) 
Hdent. Walp. Annal. EH. p. 580.—Dec. prod. ITI. p.. 142. + 
Spec. Cuar. Suffrutescent: branches somewhat 4-sided and 
eompressed, furrowed, strigosely hispid at the angles : leaves petiol- 
ed, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, quite entire, 3—5-nerved, 
upper side strigosety scabrous, lower bristly on the nerves: flowers 
tetramerous, panicled; calyx stellately-hispid: teeth covered with 
stellate bristles at the apex, somewhat shorter than the tube, and 
with four slender awns which are bristly-hispid and stellate at the 
apex, alternating, eaducous: anthers sigmoid: connectivum not 
elongated below the cells: flowers lilac-rose. 
. Assam, 
GENUS IV. MELASTOMA. 
Deeandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv, From Melas, black, and Stoma, mouth, in allusion to 
the berry staining the mouth when eaten. 
Gen. Cuar. Shrubs: leaves 3—7-nerved: peduncles, axillary 
or terminal; calyx-tube ovate, often scaly: limb 5, rarely 4—6- 
cleft: lobes deciduous, with small appendages springing between 
them: petals as many as the lobes: stamens twice as many as the 
petals and dissimilar: anthers beaked, opening by a single pore: 
connectivum: in those that: alternate with the petals short and 2- 
lobed at the hase, in those that are opposite the petals long-linear 
and 2-spurred at the base: ovary crowned with bristles: stigma 
pruinose : capsule 5, rarely 4—6-celled ; seed cochleate. 
(1) M. Maxazatueicum., (Linn.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 324.—Dec. prod. IIT. p. 145.— 
Roxb. fl. Ind. IL. p. 405. 
Engrav. Wight's Ill, IT. t. 95.—Bot. Reg. VIII. t. 672.— 
Rheede Mal. IV. t. 42,—Rumph. Amb. IV. t. 72. 
Spec. Cuar. Shrubby: branches 4-angled, rowgh from bristles 
or scales: leaves elliptic-oblong, somewhat acute, quite entire, green 
on both sides, upper side strigose from rigid flat bristles, under hir- 
sute on the nerves and veins and harshly pubescent between them: 
