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LIX. MELASTOMACE/E. 
[Soncrila. 
(7) S. prostrata Ridl. 
A very slender creeping plant forming mats. Stems filiform 
hairy red. Leaves equal-paired, ovate round with white hairs 
on upper surface, edge serrate, *25 in. long and wide; petioles 
slender -i in. long. Flowers 1 to 2 shortly pedicelled on slender 
terminal peduncles. Calyx urn-shaped with very short teeth 
acute, hairy. Corolla *25 in. wide, bright pink of 3 or 4 petals 
obovate, minutely apiculate. Stamens 3, nearly as long. Anthers 
yellow. Capsule urn-shaped, smooth, nearly truncate, -25 in. 
long. Hab. On shady rocks on the roadside, Selangor, Klang 
Gates, flowering January (Ridley). 
(8) S. patula Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 79, p. 71. 
Stem branched widely from near the base woody red-hairy, 
about 12 in. tall. Leaves lanceolate acute, base acute, appressed 
hairy all over, equal; nerves 3, 175 to 2-5 in. long, *3 to *5 in. wide; 
petioles -i in. long. Cymes axillary and terminal; peduncle -i in. 
long. Flowers small, white, 2 to 5 in a cyme. Calyx -15 in. 
long, campanulate; lobes lanceolate, subulate. Petals triangular 
lanceolate, acuminate -i in. long. Stamens elliptic, blunt. 
Capsule trigonous obconic, smooth, *2 in. long; pedicel stout, 
•4 in. long. Hab. Rare. Forests in mountainous regions. 
Pahang, Tahan woods, below Wray’s Camp, 3000 ft. altitude 
(Ridley). 
(9) S. albiflora Stapf, lx. 28. 
Woody shrublet ascending or erect branched, 18 in. tall, 
appressed bristly. Leaves sub-equal or quite unequal, lanceolate 
or ovate lanceolate acute, dark green, glabrous above, pale beneath 
and appressed-hairy or glabrous; nerves 1 to 2 pairs, appressed 
hairy beneath, 1 to 3*5 in. long, *5 to 1*25 in. wide; petioles *2 to 
*4 in. long. Flowers axillary and terminal, solitary or paired or 
5 in a cyme, small, white; pedicels very slender. Calyx small, 
obconic, glabrous, *08 in. long. Petals oblong, apiculate, *i to 
*15 in. long. Anthers oblong, blunt. Capsule obconic, scantily 
muricate, *2 in. long. Hab. Mountain woods. Selangor, Semang- 
kok, 3000 to 4000 ft. altitude. Perak, Gunong Keledang; Bujong 
Malacca (Curtis, Goldham, Kunstler). 
(10) S. ramosa Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mus. v. 33. 
Slender woody lax-branched bristly shrub, over a foot tall. 
Leaves unequal narrow lanceolate, acuminate, narrow at base, 
hairy 2*5 in. long, *3 in. wide, small leaves linear-lanceolate, -4 
by 'i in. long. Flowers solitary axillary sub-sessile. Calyx 
narrow, cylindric; teeth lanceolate setaceous, hairy, -3 in. long. 
Petals white, obovate rounded, sparsely hairy, -5 in. long, *4 in. 
wide. Stamens 3, about half as long; anthers orange, curved 
acuminate. Capsule sub-sessile obconic, sparsely hairy, lobes 
lanceolate; valves large. Hab. Selangor, Gunong Mengkuang 
Lebah (Robinson). 
