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LIX. MELASTOMACE.E. 
[Campimia. 
11. CAMPIMIA, Ridl. 
Shrub. Stem hollow. Leaves opposite, equal, ovate. Inflores¬ 
cences axillary and terminal, scorpioid. Flowers small, articulate. 
Calyx-tube campanulate, hardly lobed. Petals 4. Stamens 8, 
equal; anthers oblong prolonged below with a linear process at 
the back. Capsule campanulate. Species 2, 1 Malayan, 1 Borneo. 
C. Wrayi Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 57, p. 40. Allo- 
morphia Wrayi King, l.c. 11. 
Shrub 2 to 4 ft. tall. Leaves glabrous, acuminate, base shortly 
cuneate, thin, nerves 7, margin ciliate; 7 in. long, 3-5 to 5 in. long; 
petioles 2*5 in. long, hairy along upper edge. Panicles 1-5 to 4 in. 
long, few and short-branched. Flowers small, secund. Petals 
ovate. Stamens similar; anthers short, oblong, process large, 
spathulate. Capsule cup-shaped, -i in. long, narrowed to thick 
pedicel, smooth. Hab. Mountain forests, local. Perak, Thaiping 
Hills at 1000 to 2000 ft. altitude (Wray, Ridley). 
12. SONERILA, Roxb. 
Low herbs, more rarely shrubby. Leaves membranous or 
fleshy, opposite, similar in shape and size, or unequal in size, 1 
much smaller and different in shape, usually slightly oblique, 
3- to 7-nerved from base. Flowers pink or white in scorpioid simple 
or false-umbelled cymes. Calyx sub-cylindric or turbinate, 3- 
toothed. Petals 3, ovate or oblong acute. Stamens 3 (in one 
species 6); anthers linear-oblong, blunt or lanceolate acuminate, 
base lobed dehiscing with apical pores. Style filiform; ovary 
3-celled. Fruit trigonous, turbinate, smooth or muricate, dehiscing 
at the top. Seeds minute. Species over 100, tropical Asiatic. 
{StapJ, in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixix. (2), 18.) 
A. Eu-Sonerila. Stamens 3 ; leaves similar in each pair. 
i. Erects. Ascending wiry herbs, branched. 
Calyx and fruit narrow, cylindric. 
Leaves linear, spathulate . . . (1) S. 
Leaves lanceolate . . . . . (2) S. 
Leaves oblong, toothed, very diffuse plant. (3) S. 
Leaves ovate, fleshy, -7^-9 in. across . (4) S. 
Erect wiry little-branched herbs with tur¬ 
binate fruit. 
Leaves ovate, toothed, sparsely hairy; 
flowers small . . • . (5) S. 
Leaves ovate, toothed, densely hairy ; 
flowers large . . . . (6) S. 
Slender prostrate plant with minute 
flowers . . - . . (7) S. 
ii. Validul^e. Branched shrubby hairy plants; 
Leaves similar but unequal ; fruit turbinate. 
Capsule smooth ; flowers small, white in 
cymes of 3 or 4. 
Leaves lanceolate, narrow ‘4 to -5 in. 
wide ...... 
linearis 
erecta 
calaminthilolia 
tenera 
tenuifolia 
hirsuta . 
prostrata 
(8) S. patula 
