JOURNAL 
OK THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
Vol. LXIX. Part II. — NATURAL SCIENCE. 
No. I.— 1900.. 
I.— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Fenimula. — ^if;^ SiJi GEORaE 
King, K.CJ.E., M.B., LL.D., F.R.S., Ac, late Super intendettt of the 
Moyal Boianic Qarden^ Calcutta. 
No, 11. 
After ftbout two jeara of UEavoidable delay, I am now able to offer 
to the SociBtj a further contribation towards the completion of these 
Mater iaU. The paper now submitted givsB an account of the natural 
order which, in the sequence hitherto followed, fulla to be nu-mbered 
XLVII. An account of the family Myrtacem wliich onght, according 
to that sequence, to have immediately preceded this one of Melmtomacem 
is now in prejjaration, and will I hope before long be ready for presen- 
tation to the Society. The present paper is not entirely my own 
work, the account of tlie genus Sonerita having been most kindly 
prepared for me by ffr. 0. Stapf, First Assistant in the Boyal Herbarinm, 
Kew, whose contributions to the Botany o£ Borneo, pnblislied by tlie 
Linnean Society of London, have already marked him as an autliot ity 
on the Malayan Flora. 
Order XLVII. MELASTOMACB^. 
' Herbs or shrubs, more rarely trees or climbers. Leaves opposite 
or rarely whorled, generally petioled, entire or nearly bo, often 
palmately 3-5-7-nerved from near the base to the apex (mostly pinnate- 
veined in Memecylon) ; stipules 0. FlowerB spiked, panicled or cymose, 
J. 11. 1 
