Anfilecirum.] Lix. MelastoMace^E, 801 
3 to 6 in. long, lax, many-flowered. Bracts minute. Flowers 
■35 in. long green with light pink petals. Calyx cylindric, cam- 
panulate truncate, *2 in. long. Petals oblong blunt, reflexed. 
Fruit small, globose crowned with the truncate calyx. Hab. 
Epiphytic, rare. Perak, Goping (Kunstler). 
18 . MED IN ILL A, Gaud. 
Epiphytic shrubs, rarely climbing. Leaves opposite or whorled 
{rarely alternate) fleshy 3- to 9-nerved from base. Flowers in 
lateral or terminal cymes or panicles, white or rose, 4- or 5- (rarely 
6-)merous, often showy. Calyx-tube ovoid or cylindric, limb 
truncate or teeth obscure. Stamens 8 or 10; anthers opening by 1 
pore; connective with 2 tubercles beneath and 1 spur behind. 
Ovary 4- to 6-celled. Fruit, a berry. Species 100, mostly Malayan, 
India, Ceylon, a few Polynesian and African. 
Flowers 4-merous. 
Leaves alternate, a creeper on trees , 
Leaves whorled, large, erect; shrubs with big 
panicle ...... 
Leaves opposite; compound cymes terminal. 
Cymes axillary; flowers 1 in. wide; leaves 
elliptic ...... 
Cymes axillary ; leaves lanceolate . 
Flowers small under '5 in. long. 
Leaves petiolate, narrowed at base 
Leaves petiolate, base round 
Leaves sessile ; panicles brilliant red . 
Leaves obovate, nerveless, ‘65 in. long 
Flowers 5-merous. 
Leaves small, obovate tip round. 
Nerves 3, visible ...... 
Nerves invisible ...... 
Leaves large, coriaceous, elliptic-orbicular 
Leaves lanceolate, petioled; flowers large in 
fascicles ...... 
Leaves thin, elliptic-lanceolate, sessile; flowers in 
a long pendent cyme .... 
(1) M. scandens 
(2) M. speciosa 
(3} M. heteranthera 
(4) M. venusta 
(5) M. Hasseltii 
(6) M. pendens 
(7) M. Scortechinii 
(8) M. Maingayi 
(9) M. Clarkei 
(10) M. pahangensis 
(11) M. perakensis 
{12) M. crassinervia 
(13) M. penduliflora 
(1) M. scandens King, l.c. 60. 
A creeper on trees with many short roots. Leaves alternate, 
sub-coriaceous, glabrous, elliptic or ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate, 
base cuneate, 4*5 to 9 in. long, 2*5 to 6 in. wide; petioles i‘5 to 7 in. 
long. Flowers in dense fascicles in axils of fallen leaves. Calyx- 
tube campanulate *15 in. long, limb truncate. Petals 4, ovate 
oblong acute, dull pink. Stamens 8. Hab. Mountain woods. 
Perak, Bujong Malacca (Curtis); Tapah; Thaiping Hills. 
(2) M. speciosa Bl. Flora 1831, p. 515; Bot. Mag. t. 4321; 
Clarke, in Hook. fil. F.B.I. ii. 549; King , l.c. 60. 
A big shrub about 5 ft. tall with thick 4-angled branches, nodes 
bristly. Leaves sub-coriaceous, whorled in threes, sessile or nearly 
so, light green, oblaneeolate or obovate-oblong, base cuneate, 
Fl.M.P., 1. 
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