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dorsally furnished with oo elongate and apically obtuse or inflated 

 hairs. Germen semiadherent to receptacle, hirsute at apex, 4-celled. 

 Fruit baccate, crowned with sepals and tube of receptacle ; seeds oo , 

 oblong smooth. — Scaly shrubs ; ' leaves opposite petiolate oblong 

 entire glabrous; flowers^ in terminal ramose compound racemes.^ 

 (Tnd. Archip.^) 



28.' Dissochseta Bl.'' — Flowers 4- or more rarely 5-merous 

 (Sahersia,^ Dkellandra'') ; receptacle campanulate or turbinate. Calyx 

 4, 6-lobed or dentate, sometimes subentire, more rarely calyptrately 

 eircumcissus [Dalenia ^) ; accessory teeth small sometimes 4, 5, or 

 oftener 0. Stamens same ° in number as petals or generally 8-10 ; 

 anthers thick oblanceolate, more or less undulate or reticulate (Om- 

 phalopus '"), connective at base internally exappendiculate, simply or 

 slightly appendiculate, posteriorly (generally shortly) spurred (Creochi- 

 ton," Anplectrum^^); either long ovately acute ; connective anteriorly 

 2-setose or 2-lamellate (Eudissochceta), more rarely not appendiculate 

 Anoplodissochceta^^), posteriorly generally spurred (Eudissochceta) ; or 

 narrower, longer pointed, more or less curved (Dicellandra, Sakersia) ; 

 connective produced, anteriorly 2-spurred, posteriorly bare (Sakersia) 

 or with short acute spur (Dicellandra) , sometimes anteriorly and pos- 

 teriorly exappendiculate ; with subulate lateral appendages (Oxyotan- 

 dra '*) . Germen 4, 5-celled, adnate to receptacle, often crowned with 

 epigynous disk, or concave at apex, 5-10-gonal, more rarely {Anplec- 

 trum) 4-cristate ; style simple, sometimes dilated at base, at apex 

 stigmatose truncate or punctiform. Fruit baccate or coriaceous, 

 generally ovoid ; seeds various in form, either straight, or more rarely 



' Sometimes spuriously parasitic. ii. 459. — Tm. Melasi. 81, t. 7, fig. t<5. 



* Red or pink, small, crowded. ' Kokth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. 243, t. 68. — Naud. 

 ' A genus differing from the small-flowered he. cit. xv. 276. — B. H. Oen. 758, n. 88. — Tki. 



Medinillas only in the character of the stamens. Melast. 82, t. 7, fig. 87. ' 



^ Spec. 2. KoRTH. Verh. Nat. Qeach. t. 65. — ^ E. g. B. Diepenhorstii MiQ. 



Jack, Trans. Linn. Soe. xiv. 19 {Melaatoma). — '" Naud. loe. cit. xv. t. 4 (part). — B. H. Gen. 



Bl. JBiJdr. 1072 {Melastoma).— Wall. Cat. n. 769, n. 92.— Tki. Melast. 85, t. 7, fig. 92. 



4086 {Melastoma).—WALV. Sep. ii. 143 ; v. 712; " Bl. Flora (1831), 606.— Endl. Gen. n. 6256. 



Ann. ii. 606. — Naud. loe. cit. xviii. 163, t. 6.— B. H. Gen. 



* Flora (1831), 493 (part) ; Mm. Ludg.-Bat. i. 768, n. 91. 



36, t. 6.— Endl. Gen. n. 6246 (part).- Naud. '^ A. Gkay, Un. St. Expl. Exp. Bot. i. 597.— 



Ann: Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xv. 72 (part), t. 4, fig. 3, 4. B. H. Gen. 768, n. 90.— Tri. Me/ast. 84, t. 7, fig. 



— B. H. Gen. 768, n. 89. — H. Bn. Adansonia, 90. — Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 645. — Aplectrum Bl. 



xii. 88.— Hook. i?;. /«<?. ii. 643. Flora (1831), 602; Muk Lugd.-Bat. i. 37.— 



6 HooK.F. Gen. 767, n. 86 ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. Endl. Gen. n. 6247 (not Nctt.). 



ii. 458. — Tri. Melast. 81, t. 7, fig. 86. '^ The type of which is J), inappendioulata Bl. 



1 HooK.r. Gen. 767, n. 86 ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. " H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 88. 



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