LIX. MELASTOMACEAD. 
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Memecylon ); style simple, filiform. Fruit a capsule breaking up 
irregularly or by slits in the tops of the cells, a berry or a drupe 
{Memecylon). Seed numerous, minute (except Memecylon , one 
seed). 
Species 2700, tropical, a few sub-tropical; whole world. {King, 
Journ . 4 s. Soc. Beng. Ixix. (2), p. 1. The Sonenlas by Stapf, 
p. 18.) 
A. Melastomacese. Ovary 3- to 6- celled; anthers opening by 1 rarely 
2 potes. Seeds many. 
i. Osbecki.®:. Seeds curved. 
Stamens 8, similar; fruit capsular 
Stamens 10, dissimilar; fruit baccate 
1. Osbeckia 
2. Melastoma 
ii. Oxyspore.'E. Seeds straight. 
Inflorescence terminal; stamens 8. 
Panicles large, showy; fruit funnel-shaped . 
Panicles small; flowers small; fruit ellip¬ 
soid 
Cymes of few large flowers; fruit urceolate 
or obconic . 
Cymes of few large flowers; fruit campanu- 
late, obconic ..... 
Inflorescence axillary. 
Stamens 4 
Stamens 10 {inflorescence occasionally ter¬ 
minal) ; fruit dehiscing very irregularly 
Stamens 8. 
Trees or large shrubs; flowers umbelled . 
Shrubs. Cymes small, few-flowered 
Shrublets. Cymes scorpioid, many- 
flowered ...•■• 
3. Oxyspora 
4. Allomorfhia 
5. Oritrephes 
6. Peri limn astes 
7. Blastus 
8. Ochthocharis 
9. Anerincleistus 
10. Phaulanthus 
11. Campimia 
iii. Sonerileje. Herbs, rarely shrublets. Capsule turbinate. 
Petals 3; stamens 3 (in one 6); flowers few 
in scorpoid cymes .... 
Petals 4; stamens 8; flowers in terminal 
cluster ....•• 
Half shrubby. 
Petals 4; stamens 8; flowers many um¬ 
belled or panicled .... 
iv. Medinille.®. Fruit baccate; shrubs. 
Stamens 8, unequal, long ones with 2 long 
bristles at connective base; climbers. 
Cymes lateral ....•■ 
Panicles terminal . . 
Long stamens with no bristles 
Stamens unequal 8 to io; epiphytes. 
Anther-connective with 2 tubercles in front 
and spur behind . 
Anther-connective bearded behind 
Anther-connective spurred behind, no tuber¬ 
cles 
Stamens 20 to 25 
B. Miconiese (American). 
Hairy herb; stamens 8 similar; fruit berry 
12. Sonerila 
13. Sarcopyramis 
14. Phyllagathis 
15. Marumi a 
16. Dissochjeta 
17. Anplectrum 
18. Medinilla 
IQ. POGONANTHERA 
20. Pachycentria 
21. Plethiandra 
22 . CLIDEMIA 
