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Filaments ten, inserted on the outside of the nectary, thread 

 form, erect, many times longer than the corolla, anthers 

 oblong, erect. Pist: Germen roundish, smooth, style thread 

 form erect, the length of the stamina, stigma headed. 

 Capsule oblong, five celled, five valved, valves lanceolate, opening 

 at the apex ; partitions double, formed by a stiff membrane turn- 

 ed inwards from the edge of each valve ; a half partition runs 

 longitudinally down the middle of the inside of each valve. 

 Seeds, two in each cell. Found on the top of the hill. Flowers 

 in May. 



Melastoma. 



1. Melastoma muricata, H. M. decemfidum Koxb. 



Shrubby, erect ; Leaves five nerved, lance-ovate, acute, most 

 entire, rough; Calyx muricated, slightly ten cleft, the alternate 

 divisions deep. Stem, shrubby, erect, round ; about seven or 

 eight feet high. Leaves opposite, decussated, lance-ovate 

 acute, most entire, above scabrous, below bristly, petioles 

 short depressed, above furrowed, bristly, widely spreading. 

 Peduncles terminal, three or four, very short, hispid, one 

 flowered. Flowers large, purple. Calyx, bell shape, muricat- 

 ed, with long soft spines, the mouth ten cleft; segments lanceo- 

 late, acute, hispid ; the alternate ones larger and firmer. Corolla 

 petals five, wedge shape, retuse. Stain: filaments ten, thread 

 form, erect, half the length of the corolla, inserted into the 

 calyx, anthers long, awl-shape opening at the apex with an 

 oblique hole; the six alternate ones tailed, refracted, the tail 

 long, declining, bent, bifid at the base, without scales. Pistil 

 as in the generic characters-. I did not see that fruit. Found 

 on the hill. Flowers in May. It varies with calyx 12 cleft, 

 six petals and twelve stamina. 



2. Melastoma malabathrica, Willd. 2, p. 592. 



Shrubby, erect ; Leaves five nerved, broad lanceolate, acute, 

 most entire, rough ; Calyx imbricated five cleft. M. quinquener- 

 via hirta, major, capitulis, sericeis, villosis, Burn. Zeyl. 155 1. 73. 

 Kedali. Hort. Mai. 4, p. 87, t. 42. Fragarius niger Eumph. 4, 

 p. 137, t. 72. Kedoodoo. Mai. 



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