52 G, King — Matenah for a Flora of the Malayan Feninsula. [No, 1, 
glabi-OHSj leiagtli 3 to 4-5 in. ; br^dth 1 to 1 '7 5 in, j petiole '15 to '3 in. 
Fanich eolitary, terminal, tliickGoed at tlio nodeSt broadly pyramidal, 
much brancbed. Flowers '75 io. long. Cahjx-hihe longer tban the 
pcdieel, cybndric- tubular, the mouth not everted but with four linear 
elongate teetb. Petals 4, broadly lanceolate, blunt. iStamens equals 
all perfect, elongate and narrow, tbe apices raucb prolonged into a rather 
thin appendage, the base with iwo delicate, filiform appendages. FruU 
oroid -globose, crowned by the persistent calj'x-limb, densely setosc- 
lepidote, "4 in, in diam. Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. YII, 550. 
JoHORK; at the ba.s© of Giinong Panli ; King's GoUector 197; 
Eidletj 4185. Djsthib. Borneo. 
4. D1SSOCH.ETA BKACTEATA, Blume in Flora, 1831, 495. Young 
hrancbes with a transverse ridge at the nodes, petioles and panicles 
more or less densely clothed with sub-deciduous, rusty, stellate hairs, 
ajid the nnder surfaces of tbe leaves sparsely so. Leaves membranous, 
5.n©rved (the marginal pair faiot), ovate-lanceolate, tbe base rounded 
and often sub-cordate, tlie apes acute or sbortly ncuminate ; upper 
surface glabrous, the lower sparsely st^llnte-baiiy ; length ^ to 4*5 in. j 
breadth 1*25 in. ; petiole '2 to *3 in. Panicles much bracteato, both 
axillary and terminal, the former shorter, the latter longer, tban the 
leaves; the branches few, divaricate. Flowers i'2 in. long (iucladiiig tho 
atamenB), in cymes ai the ends of t-bo brancblets, each subtended by, 
and while in bnd enveloped in, a membranous, obovate, blunt, stellate- 
pubescent, more or less permanent bract about '5 in, long. Califx-tuhe 
twice as long as the pedicels, cylindric-campanulatCi tho mouth slightly 
widened and min^jbely 4-toothed. Petals broadly elliptic, blunt, 
glabrous. Slamem 8, much curved, long, linear, tbe base with two long 
flattened, linear, npwax*d-pointi'ng appendages. FrnU ellipsoid, crowned 
by the rim of the calyx-tube, 'G in. long. Mitp Fl. Ind, Bat. I, pt. I, 529 ; 
Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVIII, 84 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. 
Br. Ind. 11, 543 ; Cogn. in DC. Uoh. Phan. VII, 598. D. hradtma, ITaud. 
in. Ann. So, Nat, Ser, 8, XV, 76; Miq. Fl. Ind, Bat. T, pfc. 1, 527. 
Melastoma hracieatmn, Jack in Trans. Limi. Soc. XIV, V \ Wall. Cat. 
4044, partly. 
Pekano; 'WalUcl, Cat. 4044; Cinik 2298. Malacca; Maingay 
791. DlSTRtf). Borneo, Eaviland. 
5, DissocH^TA PALLIDA, Blume in Flora, 1831, 500. A shrubby 
creeper, 20 to 50 feet long; young branches thickeued and with inter- 
petiolar I'idges at the nodes, sparsely covemd with minute stellate-hairy 
Bcales like the petioles, under surfaces of tho leaves and the panicles. 
Leaves sub- coriaceous, 5- nerved (the lateral pair faint), elliptic-ovato 
to ovate, the base rounded and sab-cordate, the apex shortly acuniinato 
