52 NATUEAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



slightly curved. — Erect or oftener sarmentose shrubs, sometimes but 

 rarely subherbaceous (Dicellandra), glabrous or scaly ; leaves oftener 

 entire, 3-5-nerved ; flowers ' in more or less compound racemose 

 cymes, terminal and axillary or lateral ; lateral bracteoles small, but 

 sometimes (Greochiton) wide navicular, fleshy or coriaceous, valvately 

 enfolding the bud, deciduous. (Asia, trop. Oceania and Africa, 

 Malacca.') 



29. Marumia Bl.^ — Flowers nearly of Medinilla, 4-merous ; re- 

 ceptacle tubular or subcampanulate, externally setose or plumose. 

 Sepals 4, 3-angular or lanceolate, reduplicately valvate, thick, persis- 

 tent. Petals 4, obovate, contorted. Stamens 8 ; the alternipetalous 

 longer; connective long produced at base, internally long 2-setose, 

 but externally often setose or variously spurred ; the oppositipetalous 

 smaller ; connective less or scarcely produced, internally more shortly 

 2-setose, externally more sparsely setose or bare ; anthers of all 

 elongately subulate, curved subrostrate, at apex attenuate 1-porous. 

 Germen more or less free, setose or pilose above ; style slender, at 

 apex stigmatose truncate. Fruit baccate clothed with receptacle and 

 calyx ; seeds oo , ovoidly dimidiate ; raphe more or less laterally pro- 

 minent. — Sarmentose shrubs, sometimes climbing ; indumentum 

 tomentose or scaly, oftener abundant ; branches thickened at nodes ; 

 leaves opposite petiolate entire, 3-5-nerved ; flowers* in lateral 

 -pedunculate cymes. (Philippine and Malayan islands.^) 



30. Monochsetum DG.^ — Flowers 4-merous ; ' receptacle tubular 

 or subcampanulate. Sepals 4, ovately acute or lanceolate, subequal 

 to or shorter than receptacle. Petals 4, unsymmetrically obovate, 



' White, pink or purple. ' Spec, about 10. Vent. Ckoix de Fl. t. 32 



2 Spec, about 30. Bl.^j}*-. 106S, 1074 (ilfeZa- {jlf«i«te).— Mia. Fl. I'nd.-Bat. i. p. 1, 632.- 



-Jaok, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 12, 14 Konis.Ver. Kat. Gescfi. t. 59,G0.— Jack, Trans. 



-KoRTH. Verh. Nat. Geseh. t. 55, Linn. Soc. xiv. 6 (Melastoma).'-'DG. Frodr. iii. 



66.— Mia. Fl. Ind.-Sat. i. p. i. 521, 531 {Ompha- 167, ii. 4 (Sairaia).— Bl. Rttmphia, i. t. 4, 5.— 



lopus), 559 {Creochiton). — WA.T.F.Itep. ii. 144, 145 "Walp. Fep. ii. 146 ; Ann. H. 609 ; iii. 874. 



(Aplectrum) ; v. 715 (Dalenia), 717; Ann. ii. 607, " Prodr. iii. 138 {Arthrostemmatis sect. 5).— 



608 (Aplectrum, Dalenia) ; iv. 796 {Creochiton). Naud. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, iv. 48, t. 2 ; xiv. 157. 



3 Flor^ (1831), 503 ; Mus. Ludg.-Bat. i. 33.— — B. H. Gen. 747, u. 48.— Tiu. Melast. 62, t. 6, 



Endl. Gen. n. 6254.— Naud. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. fig. 49.— H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 95. — Loevigia 



3, XV. 279, t. 12.— B. H. Gen. 755, n. 87.— Tbi. Kabst. etTRi. Zinntea, xxviii. i3i.—Grischowia 



Melast. 82, t. 6, fig. 88.— Hook. PI. Ind. ii. 541. Kaest. Arnw. N. Gew. 16, t. 5. 



— Macrolenes Naud. he. eit. 311. ' Very rarely 6-inerou8, 



* Pint or red, sometimes rather large. 



