LIX. MELASTOMACEjE. 
797 
Dissochaia .] 
(Murton); Bukit Timah. Johor, Pinerong (Cantley); Tana 
Runto; Gunong Pulai. Malacca, Sungei Hudang (Derry) ; Bukit 
Bruang. Selangor, Sempang. Penang, Balik Pulau (Foxworthy). 
Native name : Akar Meroyan Busuk. 
{3) D. hirsuta Hook. fit. Triana l.c.; King, l.c. 51. 
Plant covered except upper surface of leaves and petals with 
stellate hairs mixed with long stiff hairs. Leaves lanceolate or 
ovate lanceolate cordate acuminate 3 to 4*5 in. long, 1 to x i*75 in. 
wide; petioles -15 in. long. Panicles 5 to 6 in. long and as wide 
on peduncles 3 in. long. Flowers bright pink. Calyx -3 in. long, 
funnel-shaped on a pedicel as long. Petals lanceolate. Stamens 8. 
Fruit ovoid-globose. Hab. Thickets in lowlands, very local. 
Johor, open country towards Gunong Pantai (Kunstler, Ridley). 
Disirib. Borneo. 
(4) D. bracteata Bl. Flora 1831, p. 495; Clarke, l.c. ii. 543; 
King, l.c. 52. 
Stem, leaves beneath, petioles and panicles sprinkled with 
rusty scurf. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, base round, acute, glabrous 
above, sparsely scurfy beneath, 3 to 4*5 in. long, 1*25 in. wide; 
petioles -2 in. long. Panicles lax, 12 in. long. Flowers 75 in. 
long; pedicels short, clustered at ends of branches with broad 
oblong obovate bracts. Calyx funnel-shaped. Petals elliptic. 
Stamens 8. Fruit ellipsoid, -6 in. long. Hab. Penang Hill (all 
collectors). Native name : Akar Meroyan Sejuk. 
(5) D. pallida Bl. Flora 1831, p. 500; Clarke, l.c. ii. 544. 
Climber. Branches, underside of leaves and panicles very 
sparsely hairy. Leaves elliptic-ovate or ovate acuminate, base 
round, 2-5 to 5 in. long, 1*2 to 2*2 in. wide; petioles *3 to *5 in. 
long. Panicles axillary and terminal; branches divaricate. Bracts 
linear deciduous. Flowers nearly 1 in. long. Calyx funnel- 
shaped, densely scaly. Petals obovate-oblong lilac. Stamens 8 
(4 sometimes shorter or absent), large ones pink, shorter ones 
pale. Fruit cylindric-campanulate, sub-glabrous, -25 in. long. 
Hab. Woods; not rare. Singapore, Reservoir Woods. Malacca, 
Tebong (Griffith). Selangor, Bukit Kutu; Batu Caves; Kwala 
Lumpur. Dindings, Gunong Tungul, Perak, Ulu Batang Padang 
up to Telom; Maxwell’s Hill. Province Wellesley, Ara Kudah. 
Penang Hill (Curtis). Disirib. Malay islands. 
(6) D. gracilis Bl. Flora 1831, 498; King, l.c. 53. 
A slender climber. Branches very slender, ringed at nodes, 
almost completely glabrous all over. Leaves lanceolate-acuminate, 
base rounded, 3 to 4*5 in. long, 1-5 to i-8 in. wide; petioles *2 in. 
long. Panicles axillary and terminal, latter over a foot long, 
lax, slender, spreading. Flowers many, white, *25 in. long. Calyx 
campanulate, -i in. long. Petals ovate to orbicular. Stamens 8, 
pink, 4 large and 4 small, imperfect. Fruit sub-globular, *15 in. 
long. Hab. Common on the edges of woods. Singapore, Bukit 
