BQ 
MELASTOMA malabathrica. 
Cinnamon-leaved Melastoma or Black-Strawherry- Tree. 
a 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. MzuasToMAcEx. Jussieu gen. 328. Div. I. Brown bot. of 
Congo. 15. Germen inferum. 
MELASTOMA. Supra vol. 5. fol. 363. 
Div. Foliis 5-nerviis. : 
M. malabathrica, squamulato-scabra, foliis elliptico-lanceolatis hispidis 5- 
nerViis, uttinque viridibus, corymbis 3-pluri-floris (flore nunc aborti solita- 
rio): calyce squamuloso-sericeo : antheris basi sagittato-bidentatis, alter- 
norum majorum loculis receptaculo stipitatim elongato plurimim brevi- 
oribus. Don MSS. 
Melastoma malabathrica. Linn. flor. zeyl. 171; (fide exemplaris archetypi 
Herbar. Hermann.) Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 559. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 7. 
Gaertn. sem. 2. 203. t. 126. Lamarck encyc. 4, 36. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 
sp ; 
592. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 46; (excluso Botan. Magaz. 529.) Smith in 
Rees’s cyclop. in loco. 
Melastoma quinquenervia hirta major, capitulis sericeis villosis. Barm. 
zeyl. 155. t.'73; (bene.) 
Kadali. Rheede malab. 4. 87. t. 42. 
Fragrarius niger. Rumph. amb. 4, 137. t. 72. 
Frutex 2-3-pedalis, squamulis appressis minutis rigidis lanceolato-cuspi- 
datis denticulato-ciliatis primd margaritaceo-nitentibus indé spadiceo-opa- 
candis scaber, numerosé ramosus ramis axilluribus decussato-oppositis, 
adscendentibus, sub4gonis, foliosis. Fol. opposita, elliptico-lanceolata, in- 
tegra, 5-nervia, opacius virentia, mucronulata, utrinque attenuata, setulis 
appressis aspera ciliataque ; nervi subtis varicosi petiolusque squamulati: pet. 
_ folio multoties brevior fimbria strigosd intermedia per paria connexi. Co- 
rymbi terminales, subsessiles, 3-pluri-flort (nunc  flore abortit solitario): flores 
pallide rosei, grandiuseuli: pedicelli uniflort semunciales teretes squamulati, 
primo bracteis 2 gemmacets caducis cum flore nascente simul inclusi, inde nudi. 
Cal. tubuloso-5-fidus squamulato-hispidus, sericeo-splendens; tubo urceolato~ 
cylindrico longiore limbo subpersistente, segmentis oblongo-acwminatis hirsu- 
tius apiculatis intts glabris squamula lineari-subulata breviore interstinctis. 
Petala laté obovata, integra, contigua, venosa. Stam. 10, alterné breviora ; 
fil. lutescentia, ligulato-linearia, glabra; anth. lineari-oblonge, breve ro- 
strate, inferne arctato-flexe, basi sagittato-dentate: alternze majores, ro- 
see, stipitate (ob loculos receptaculo in stipitem roseum cum basi flexd 
luted producto plurimiim breviores); cztere lutescentes, sessiles (ob loculos 
receptaculo equales). Stylus rubescens, puncto stigmatoso obtuso viridt prui- 
noso terminatus. Germ. ovato-rotundum, fundo calycis reconditum, apice 
hirsutum. Caps. ovata, baccata, rimis 5 superné dehiscens; placente axt 
adnate, carnose, in pulpam atrosanguineam loculos implentem resolvende: 
sem. parva, reniformi-globosa, numerosa. Don MSS. ; 
“ Metastoma; a name composed by John Burmann, 
of pcaes, black, and sou«, mouth; being synonymous with 
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