332 LI. MYRTACEiE [Careya 



1. C. arborea, Eoxb. Cor. PL t. 218 ; Wight 111. tt. 99, 100 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 t. 205. Kumb^ Kmnht^ Knmlii^ Hind. Beiig. ; Kiimbia^ Mar. ; Gadava, Tel. ; 

 Kaval^ Kauhb^ Kan.; Ayama^ Ayima^ Tarn.; Pera^ Pela^ Mai.; Bambwe^ 

 Burm. 



A large deciduous tree, 1. membranous, obovate, narroAved into a short mar- 

 ginate petiole, crenate, sec. n. prominentj 10-12 pair. FL 2-4 in. across, 

 sessile, with an unpleasant smell, each supported by 3 unequal bracts, a few 

 fl. clustered at the ends of branchlets, petals white or greenish-white, 

 1-2 in, long, filaments purple, ovules in 2 rows in each cell. Fr. green, fleshy, 

 2-3 in. diam. 



Siihliimalayan tract, from the Jumna eabtwards. Througliout Bengal, the Central 

 Provinces, the Peninsula and Burma. Common in Savannahs. FL with young 1. in 

 March and Apiil. Ceylon, very common. C. splmrka^ Eoxh. ; Wight lo. 1. 147, Chitta- 

 gong, supiDosed to diiier by acute petals and 6 rows ot ovules in each cell, is donbtfnl 

 2. 0. herbacea, Boxb. Cor. PI. t. 217 [Lapkan^ Ondh), grasslands in the Subhimalayan 

 tract from the Jumna eastwards. Bengal and Burma. A small undershrub, with a 

 thick woody rootstock, which produces annually (after the fires of the hot season) 

 herbaceous shoots with cuneate dentate leaves and large beautiful purple fl., each 

 supported by 2 oblong bracts, on a short bracteate raceme, pedicels 1-2 in. long, fr. 

 1-1^ in. diani. 



Planclioiiia andamanica, King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 70. 142. Andamans. An 

 evergreen tree, wood heavy, 1 broadly elliptic, hlade 3-4, petiole J in. long, fl. 2 in. long, 

 in short racemes, pedicels 1-2 in. long, stamens co, those of the inner series without 

 anthers. This probably is P, vaJida, Kurz F. F]. I. 500 and P. Jittoralh of Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 ii 511. 



Obdek LII. MELASTOMACE^. G-en. PL i. 725. 



Mostly herbaceous, some shrubs, rarely trees, L opposite, entire or nearly so, 

 the majority of genera with 3-7 basal nerves, stip. 0. No translucent glands 

 in the 1. FL regular, bisexual, calyx-tube entirely or partially adcate to the 

 ovary, more or less prolonged beyond it, segments 4 or 5, deciduous. Stamens 

 twice the number of calyx-segments, inserted with the petals on the edge of 

 calyx-tube, filaments inflexed in bud, connective generally prolonged and often 

 much enlarged. Ovary 4-celled, placentas axile, ovules numerous. In Memecylon 

 ovary 1-celled, placenta free central, ovules few. 



Except Memecyloyi^ the genera here described have vascular bundles, sometimes con- 

 sisting of phloem only, in the pith, and several (Melastoma^ 0^heckia)h.a,YQ such bundles 

 (leaf-traces) in the bark also. Memecylon and Pternandra have strands of Phloem in 

 the wood. 



A. Seeds numerous. Basal nerves prominent, 3-7. 



Stamens twice the number of petals, unequal. 

 Apex of ovary bristly, fr. pulpy . . . .1. Melastoma. 

 Apex of ovary glabrous. 

 PL in long terminal panicles. Capsule 8-ribbed. 2. OxYsronA. 

 FL in axillary compon.nd cymes. Fr. pulpy . Pternandra (p. 333). 

 Stamens twice the number of petals, equal. 

 Oalyx-tube clothed with stellate hairs or pectinate 



scales 3. Osbixkia. 



Calyx-tube glabrous. Usually epiphytic. 

 Capsule 4--6-valved . ...... KrNDRicKiA (p. 334). 



Fruit a berry 4. Medinilla. 



Stamens as many as petals, fl. small .... Blastus (p. 335). 



B. Seed one, rarely two, 1. penninerved . . . .5. Mesux ylon. 



1. MELASTOMA, Linn.; PL Brit. Ind. ii. 523. 



Sbrubs, leaves petioled, 3-7-nerved, JFl. terminal, solitary or in compact 

 cymes, rose or purple, usually pentamerous, calyx-tube clothed with simple 



