1900.] G-. King — Makriah for a Flora of the Malayan Penimula. 47 
elongate narrow apicos bearing 2 or 3 bviatles; filamenta from one-fourtU 
to oue-half of tho lougfcb of the linear stamena. Ovary 4-aQgled, 
the apex with a truncate eastilaginous rim. Kortb. in Verb. Nat. 
GescU, Bot. 252» t. 57; Xand. in Ann. Se. Nat, Ser. 3, XXV, 332; Bot. 
Mag. t 5282; Miq. Pi. Ind. Bat. I, 559 ; Triana Melaat., tab. VJ, fig. 
73; C. B. Clarko in Hook. fil. FJ. Br. Ind. IT, 541 ; Cogn. in DC, Mon. 
Phan. VII, 518. Melastoma rotund if oHa, Jack in Trans. Linn. Soc- 
XIV, 11 ; DC. PTOdr. Ill, 149. 
Malacca; Oripth, Mainga}j. Selogobe ; Bidley 7327. Pefiak; 
iScorkchmi, King's GoUector^ Wray, Dietrib. Bnrma, Sumatra, Java; 
common. 
Bather variable &a to size of leaves and as to the nmnber of brietles on their 
p&tioles. The teeth of the calyx nho vaij as to the length of the acumiuAte apex 
and aa to the namber of briatlee. 
10. Marumfa, Blurae, 
Twining shrubs; branches cylindric, thickened ftt the nodes. 
Leaves opposite, abort-petioled, coriaceous, cordate at the base, 3-norTed 
from the base besides two suhmargitial nerves, entire, stellate-tomentose 
beneath. Oymes axillary; flowers 3-5, large, pedicelled, purple or 
wbite. Calyx-fubB imrronly eampannlate, tomentose (and often bristly 
or stellate- hairy) ; lobes 4, deep, persistent. Petals 4, obovate. 
Stamens 8, unequal; antUei-s elongate, opening by a single poie; 
connective of the longer anthoi-a carrying in front two long bristles 
and bell ind often one or two spurs or ipveral twisted bristles. Ovanf 
at the base (or half its height) adnate to the calyx, 4-eelled, densely 
hairy at the apex ; style flliforin ; ovules numerous, placentas axile. 
Berry ellipsoid, crowned by the calyx-Hmb. Seeds numerous, oblong- 
ellipsoid, with glandular scai-cely raised dots, raphe sliglitly exeurrent 
along the whole length of one side. — DlsTRiB, Species 10, Malaya, 
Borneo and the Philippines. 
Calyi-tabe withont briatles ... ,. 1. Jf, nemorosa, 
Calyi-tnbe very bristly : — 
Teeth of limb of cafyi half aa long as the tnbe, 
oblong, acute : upper sorfaoe of leavea not petl- 
culttto ... .., „. ... 2, if, rhodocarpfu 
Teeth of Umb of oaly^c one^fonrth aa long as the tnbe 
or leea, brojuiiy triaiigaUr, blunt i apper surface of 
leaved much reticulate ... .,, ... 3. M. reticidata. 
1. MAttOiiiA NEMoaosA, Blume in Flora XIV, (1831), 505. A 
straggling climber ; all parts except tlie upper surfaces of the leaves, 
the petals, atameua and ovaries covered with dense rufoua or pal^ sfceilate 
