Begonia and Melastoma, continually attract the attention in this region.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago] Reference

These include Pittosporum parvifolium, Metrosideros boninsis, Melastoma tetramerum, and Rhododendron boninense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ogasawara subtropical moist forests] Reference

He says he has had a letter from you about Melastoma, but has not, he says, for three years seen a single melastomaceous plant!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference

At the highest elevations starting at 500 m, we find the third type of plant formation, the tropical cloud forest, where Melastoma spp. are frequently found.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cocos Island moist forests] Reference

Sincere thanks about Melastoma: these flowers have baffled me, and I have caused several friends much useless labour; though, Heaven knows, I have thrown away time enough on them myself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference

Brown brought from the same locality a Melastoma, which, according to him, was a shrub, three or four feet high.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference

Sincere thanks about Melastoma: these flowers have baffled me, and I have caused several friends much useless labour; though, Heaven knows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences]

Musceae and Zingiberaceae, with their curious and brilliant flowers; and the elegant and varied forms of plants allied to Begonia and Melastoma, continually attract the attention in this region.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1] Reference

I have worked like a slave (having counted about nine thousand seeds) on Melastoma, on the meaning of the two sets of very different stamens, and as yet have been shamefully beaten, and I now cry for aid.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

On the hill of Quetepe, at the foot of the Malpighia cocollobaefolia, the leaves of which are extremely coriaceous, we gathered, among tufts of the Polygala montana, the first Melastomas, especially that beautiful species described under the name of the Melastoma rufescens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

Melastoma, Darwin on.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

Melastoma malabathrica!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

Melastoma rufescens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference

Melastoma, i.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences]

On Melastoma.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

Melastoma, 74, 125, 424.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Melastoma malabatrichum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

Forbes, H.O., on Melastoma.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

Melastomaceæ -- Melastoma malabatrichum 116-117.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

Melastoma aspera, 116 malabatrichum, 116 obvoluta, 116 obvolutum, 116.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

Apocynea arborescens, Gelonium, Combretum, Strychnos, Vitex, Melastoma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

Dominant genera include Lithocarpus, Cinnamomum, Melastoma, Caryota, Calamus, Ficus, Agathis, and numerous Lauraceae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mindanao montane rain forests] Reference

Equisetum both species, Euphorbiacea nereifolia, Dicksonia rare, Scleria vaginis alatis, Plantago media, Zizania ciliaris, Melastoma malabathrica.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

Laurinea arborea, Bambusa monogynia, Rubus moluccanus: Frutex Ruscordeus, Loranthus, Anthistiria arundinacea, Melastoma, Cyathea, Compositae, Conyzoideae two or three.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference