788 lix. melastomacEj®. [Sonerila. 
Fruit campanulate, muricate, *15 in. long. Hab. Mountain forests 
at 4000 ft. altitude. Selangor, Semangkok. Perak, Gunong Batu 
Putih (Wray, Kunstler). 
var. longipetiolata Ridl. in Journ. F.M.S. Mus. iv. 18. 
Leaves ovate with rounded oblique base; petioles 2-5 in. long, 
sometimes covered with long crimson hair. Peduncles longer, 
slender hairy or glabrous. Hab. Pahang, Telom. Kedah, Gunong 
Bintang (Kloss). This form has even longer peduncles, 4 in. long 
and quite glabrous and slender. 
(31) S. csesia Stapf, l.c. 36. 
Ascending herb. Stem 3 in. long, densely hairy as are petioles; 
nerves beneath and inflorescence. Leaves dissimilar, large ones 
oblique elliptic blunt, base unequally cordate, fleshy blue green 
above; nerves 6 to 7 from near base, red beneath, 3 to 5 in. long, 
175 to 275 in. wide; petioles 1 to 3-5 in. long. Small leaves 
minute ovate cordate. Cymes axillary, terminal 2 to 3 in umbel; 
peduncle 2-5 in. long. Flowers few or many, pink or white. Bracts 
oblong, blunt. Calyx obconic, scabrid, crimson, *12 in. long; teeth 
triangular acute. Petals oblong, cuspidate, *22 in. long. Capsule 
campanulate, tubercled. Hab. Perak, Gunong Batu Putih (Wray); 
Temengoh (Ridley). 
(32) S. bracteata Stapf, l.c. 35. 
Erect hairy, unbranched herb, 6 to 18 in. tall, densely hirsute. 
Leaves very unlike, large ones oblanceolate-acuminate, base cordate 
asymmetric, sub-glabrous above, hairy beneath on the nerves, 
3 to 7 in. long, 1 to 7 in. long, 1 to 17 in. wide, 5-nerved; petioles 
•2 to *4 in. long. Small leaves reniform, minute. Cymes axillary 
and terminal; peduncle 2 in. long, hairy. Flowers numerous. 
Bracts lanceolate, hairy, *1 in. long. Calyx short, campanulate, 
hairy; teeth lanceolate, narrow. Petals oblong cuspidate, white. 
Fruit turbinate, muricate. Hab. Perak, Thaiping Hills (Kunstler). 
(33) S. integrifolia Stapf, Ann. Bot. vi. 312; Journ. As. 
Soc. Beng. Ixix. 34. 
A simple, rarely branched erect herb with creeping base rather 
stout, appressed hairy. Leaves very unequal and unlike, the larger 
ones oblong lanceolate inequilateral, acuminate base narrowed 
cordate or acute, glabrous, plain dulL green or with 2 or 4 rows of 
white spots, 3*5 in. long, 1 to 1*5 in. wide, 3- to 5-nerved, transverse 
nervules ascending; petioles *i in. long. Small leaf minute ovate. 
Cymes axillary several -5 in. long with 4 or more flowers, hairy. 
Calyx hairy -2 in. long. Petals oblong acute, *15 in. long, pink 
or white. Capsule campanulate muricate, sub-sessile, -2 in. long. 
Hab. Dense hill jungle, common on the main mountain range. 
Selangor, Ginting Peras; Dusun Tua; Batu Caves. Perak, 
Changkat Serdang (Wray); Thaiping Hills. 
Stapf’s var. acuminatissima, l.c., is a narrow-leaved acuminate form with 
wavy leaf-edges. It occurs in the Thaiping Hills. 
