LIX. MELASTOMACE^B. 
Clidemia.] 
807 
(or pink) 4- to 5-merous. Calyx campanulate or urceolate truncate 
or lobed. Petals obovate. Stamens equal, double the number of 
the petals; anthers linear elongate. Berry small, globose. Species 
about ioo, S. American. One species thoroughly established in 
the Malay Peninsula. 
(1) C. hirta Don. Mem. Wern. Soc. iv. 309; Cogniaux DC. 
Mon. Phan. vii. 986; Bot. Mag. t. 1971. 
A shrubby weed about 2 to 6 ft. tall, very hairy. Leaves thin 
ovate-acuminate, denticulate; nerves 5 and transverse nervules 
prominent, 3*5 in. long, 2*5 in. wide; petioles *5 in. long. 
Cymes spreading 1 in. long. Calyx very hairy with subulate lobes. 
Petals small, white. Fruit -2 in. long, globose, black, pulpy. 
Hah. Abundant on roadsides, Singapore near town and in Reservoir 
woods. Negri Sembilan, Seremban. Distrib. S. America and an 
alien in Java and Fiji. 
23 . ASTRONIA, Bl. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, ovate or oblong. Flowers 
small, white (or purple) in terminal panicles. Calyx campanulate, 
truncate or lobed. Petals 4 or 5. Stamens 8, 10 or 12. Anthers 
short, dehiscing by slits down front; connective spurred or not. 
Ovary 2- to 5-celled; style short. Stigma capitellate. Capsule 
dehiscing irregularly. Seeds minute, copious, linear. Species 24, 
Malayan, Polynesian. 
(1) A. smilacifolia Triana, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 152; 
King, l.c. 67. 
Bushy tree about 30 ft. tall. Branches, petiole, underside 
of leaves red-scaly. Leaves oblong tapering to each end; nervules 
transverse, 3 to 5-5 in. long, 1*5 to 2-5 in. wide; petioles -i in. long. 
Panicles 1 to 2 in. long, dense. Flowers white, -i in. long. Fruit 
rufous-scaly globose, truncate, -2 in. through. Hab. Mountain 
forests. Perak, Thaiping Hills. Penang Hill, on West Hill at 
3000 ft. altitude. Distrib. Borneo. 
24 . PTERNANDRA, Jack. 
Trees. Leaves sub-coriaceous or coriaceous sub-sessile, 3- to 
5-nerved. Flowers solitary in short clustered cymes, small or 
moderate size, occasionally terminal panicled. Calyx-tube cam¬ 
panulate or hemispheric tessellate, warty or covered with appressed 
triangular processes; mouth truncate or 4-toothed. Petals 4, 
ovate or oblong, blue or white. Stamens 8, equal, but some anthers 
often imperfect; anthers broad, blunt, spurred behind dehiscing 
by shts; filaments short, thick often geniculate. Ovary 4-celled ; 
style filiform. Stigma clubbed. Berry sub-globose, scaly or 
smooth. Seeds obovoid angled. Species about 12, Malayan. 
