MELASTOMACEJE. 47 



petiolate ovate or shortly lanceolate serrulate, 3-nerved ; flowers ' in 

 terminal and axillary cymiferous capitnles, pedunculate or subsessile. 

 {Java, mount, and temp. India and Bmma.^) 



20. Phyllagathis Bl.^ — Flowers (nearly of Sarcopyramis) 3, 4- 

 merous ; receptacle longer. Sepals 3, 4, more or less ciliately setose. 

 Petals 3, 4, ovate-acute. Stamens 4-8 ; anthers subulate ; con- 

 nective not produced, at base dorsally not or scarcely spurred. 

 Germen adnate to receptacle below, 3, 4-locular, widely hollowed at 

 apex. Fruit enclosed by thick coriaceous receptacle!, at apex deeply 

 hollowed in 4 valves ; seeds, &c. of Sarcopyramis. — Dense shrublets ; 

 branches herbaceous ; leaves opposite,* large petiolate ovately orbicu- 

 late, at base cordate, obtuse entire or dentate variegated, 5-7-nerved j 

 petiole often crinite ; flowers ^ in a glomeruliferous capitule involu- 

 crate ^ with brqad bracts.' (Malaya.^) • 



21. Rousseauxia DC.'^ — Flowers 4-merous; receptacle tubular 

 eampanulate glabrous. Sepals 4, ovately acute, ciliate, much con- 

 torted. Petals 4, obovate, contrariwise contorted. Stamens 8, 2- 

 seriate, subequal ; filaments short compressed ; anthers longer, much 

 inflexed in bud, elongate obtuse, 1-porous at apex, cells glabrous not 

 undulate; connective not produced not appendiculate. Germen 

 adnate to receptacle by means of septa interposed between stamens, 

 4-celled, setose at vertex ; style slender deflexed, at apex stigmatose 

 not dilated. Fruit capsular; seeds . . . ?— A shrub; twigs articu- 

 late annular at nodes ; leaves opposite petiolate, ovately acute 

 serrulate, glabrous ; lateral nerves nearly parallel to margin ; flowers'" 

 few in terminal -cymes." {Madagascar. ^^) 



• Small, pink. of its inflorescence. 



■ Spec. 4. S. nepalenais Watj,, — S.Javanensis * Spec. 2. Jack, Trans. Linn. Soc. -xiy, 11 



ZoLL. et MoR. Verz. 12. — 8. ffrandi/lora Griit, {Melastoma). — Koeth. Verh. Nat. Geseh. Sot. 



Notul. iv. 678.— iS. laneeolata Wall. loe. oit. — 252, t. 57.— "W alp. Rep, v. 717 j ^««. iii. 886. 

 Benn. pi. Jav. Mar. iXi.—Sonerila Naudiniana ' Prodr. iii. 152; Mem. M^last. 64 (part).— ' 



MiQ. Fl. Ind.-But. i. 565. — Osbeckia ovata ZohJj. Endl. Gen. n. 6226. — Naub. Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 



Fiira (1847), 665. 3, xiv. t. 7; xv. 49.— B. H. Gen. 763, n. 68.— 



' Flora (1831), 507 ; Mus. Ludg.-Bat.i. 12.— Tri. Melast. 74, t. 5, fig. 69. 



Endl. Ge>-. n. 6266. — Naud. Ann. So. Nat. ser. ^ •» Moderate. 



3, XV, 332.— B. H. Gen. 734, n. 74.— Tri. Melait. " A gen. Blastus^ connecting the Oxyaporem 



77, t. 6, fig. 73. — Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 541. with the Sonerileee, and yet by the nature of its 



* One terminal, sometimes, as said, solitary. flowers resembling the legitimate Melastomece. 



' Small, pink. " Spec. 1. Jf. chrysophylla DC. loc. cit. 153, 



' Said to be bare, in F. gymnantha Korth. ji. \.—M, chrysophylla Desrx. Lamk, Diet. iv. 



' A genus distinct from the preceding chiefly 60, n. 62 (not Rich.).— Walp. Ann. iii. 867. 

 by its longer receptacle and the singular nature 



