48 G, King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Penimula. [No. 1, 
tomentara, without briatlee ; tlie branches thickened and annulate at 
the nodes. Leaves sub-coriaceous, elliptic or oblong- lanceolate, slightly 
cordate at the base, the apex shortly acuminate or acute, 5-norped (the 
latetal pair of nerves faint) ; upper surface glabrous ; length 3 to 6 in. ; 
breadth 1*35 to 2*75 in, ; petiole *2 to '4 in. long. Flowers about 175 
in. long (including the sfcamena), solitary or in pedunculate cymes of 
three from the axils of the leaves. Calyx-tube more or less narrowly 
carapaimlatfl, somewhat constricted below the limb ; limb with 4t deep, 
triangular teeth. Pdtds broadly ovate, blunt, longer than the calyx- 
tube, mse-colonretl. Siauiens 8, unequal j the anthers of all linear, 
curved ; the longer with two narrow, curved filaments at the base in 
front, and several smaller behind ; the four smaller with two smaller^ 
equal filaments at the base in front only. Fruit succulent, oblong-ovoid, 
constricted below the permanent calyx- teeth, sometimes sub-tubercnlate 
and always stellato-tomeutose, abont 1 in. long. Blnme Mns. Bot. I, 
33; Kfiud. ill Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XV, 279 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. T, pt. 
J, 533; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVIII, 82; C. B. Clarke in 
Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 542 ; Cogn, in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 519. 
M. a£i}m, Korth. in Verb. Kat. Gesch. Bot. 21-1, t. GO; Miq. he. 533. 
Melastonta nemorosuui. Jack in Trans. Linn, iSoc. XIV, 8 ; DO. Prodi'. 
Ill, M9 ; Wall. Cat, 4043, 
In all the provinces except the Nicobar and Andaman Islands. 
DiSTUJB. Sumntm, Borneo. 
2. IIakltmu RiiODOCARrA, Cogn. in BC. Mon. Phan. VIX» 550. 
A poweif nl climber ; young branches, petioles, lower surfaces of 
leaves aiul culyx densely clofclSd with minute, pale, stellate tomentum 
intei-mixed with numerous stout, spreading, brown i>ristles, the nodes 
somewhat Bwollen and with transverse lines. Leaves snb -coriaceous, 
oblon;?, narrowed to the rounded, minutely cordate base, the apex 
shortly acuminate, 5-nerved (the lateral pair slender) ; upper surface 
glabrous ; length 3*5 to 5 in.; breadth 1 to 2 in.; petiole *15 to '2 in. 
Flowers (including the stamens) nearly 1'5 in. long, in axillary, pedun- 
culate cymes of three. Calyx-tuhe longer than the glabrous pedicel, 
nariowly campanulate» constricted below the limb ; limb with 4 oblong, 
acute teetli half as long as tbe tube and like the latter bearing 
many long, curved bristles. Petals white, obovate. Stamens 8^ un- 
equal, all linear and acuminate ; the four larger with two long, 
liliform ap[<endat(es in front and several smaller behind : the four 
smaller with about 4 to 6 appendages. Fruit shortly ovoid, crowned 
by the large calyx- teeth, bristly, '4 in. in diam. Melastmna rhodo- 
carpttm, Wall, Oat., 4045. Marmnia ecMnata, Namd, Ann, Sc. Nat. 
Ser. 3, XV, 280 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 634. M. aeylanica, Triana 
