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LIX. MELASTOMACE^. 
[Sonerila. 
Leaves quite glabrous, base unequally lobed. 
Leaves glabrous above, nerves beneath 
hairy. 
Fruit muricate . 
Fruit smooth, few-flowered 
Fruit smooth; flowers many; petiole 
winged . 
Leaves hairy on both sides, oblong, sparsely 
hairy above. 
Tall, with dense setose axillary cymes; 
flowers small .... 
Dwarf; cymes terminal. 
Petioles long ..... 
Petioles short ...... 
Leaves ovate oblique, sparsely hairy above; 
dwarf plants. 
Stem short; cymes long peduncled . 
Stem long. 
Cymes terminal, sessile .... 
Cymes sessile or nearly axillary 
Leaves velvety, hairy above. 
Stem elongate; leaves ovate 
Dwarf; leaves oblong acuminate 
(34) S. barbata 
(35) S. nidularia 
{36) S. calycula 
(37) S. Gimlettei 
(38) S. setosa 
(39) S. costulata 
(40) S. microcarpa 
(41) S. begonieefolia 
(42) S. macrophylla 
(43) S. brachyantha 
(44) S. elatostemoides 
(45) S. bicolor 
(1) S. linearis Hook fil.; Triana, Trans. Linn . Soc. xxviii. 76; 
Clarke, in Hook fil. F.B.L ii. 536. 
Slender wiry glabrous herb, 6 to 14 in. tall. Leaves linear, 
spathulate, sessile, minutely toothed or entire, 1 in. long, ‘05 to 
•1 in. wide. Racemes terminal, few-flowered. Calyx-tube 
cylindric, campanulate *2 in. long. Petals -25 in. long, *1 in. wide, 
mauve pink; anthers orange, long acuminate, shorter than petals. 
Fruit cylindric oblong smooth, narrow at base, -3 in. long. Hab. 
Kedah Peak, Gunong Jerai (Lobb; at 3000 ft. altitude, Robinson). 
(2) S. erecta Jack, Mai. Misc. i. 7 ; Slap/ and King, l.c. 23. 
Wiry herb, usually widely branched, upper parts hairy, 3 to 
18 in. tall. Leaves similar, ovate or lanceolate, hairy, -4 to 1*2 in. 
long, -2 to *4 in. wide, faintly 3-nerved; petioles o to *3 in. long. 
Cymes 2- to 9-flowered, glabrous, elongating peduncles -4 to 2 in. 
long slender; pedicels *04 in. long. Calyx sub-cylindric, -15 to 
■2 in. long; teeth short. Petals elliptic cuspidate, pink, -15 in. 
long. Anthers ovate lanceolate. Capsule sub-cylindric, -3 to 
•45 in. long, -06 to *08 in. wide. Hab. On rocks and stony paths 
or mossy banks on mountains. Local, but abundant where it 
occurs, variable in size, Perak, Thaiping Hills (all collectors), 
Penang Hill (all collectors). Distrib. Mountains. 
The varieties flexuosa and discolor Stapf, are merely large futly grown 
forms, not worth keeping up. 5 . hyssopifolia Stapf, l.c., from Gunong 
Hijau, the top of the Thaiping Hills, appears to be a state with rather larger 
fruits, much like the form discolor, probably a wet-wood form. 
(3) S. calaminthifolia Stapf and King, l.c. 23. 
Wiry branched ascending herb up to 12 in. tall, hairy. Stem 
4-angled above, crimson. Leaves equal, oblong or elliptic toothed. 
