Common epiphyte families found in Sumatra include Orchidaceae, Gesneriaceae, Melastomaceae, Asclepidiaceae, and Rubiaceae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sumatran lowland rain forests] Reference

Melastomaceae and certain other flowers of analogous form.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

Melastomaceae vegetates north of the parallel of the thirtieth degree of latitude, or why no rose-tree belongs to the southern hemisphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference

I have got seeds from Dr. King of some Melastomaceae, and will write to Veitch to see if I can get the Melastomaceous genera Monochaetum and.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

I have procured some plants of Melastomaceae, but I fear that they will not flower for two years, and I may be in my grave before I can repeat my trials.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

I have worked like a slave and been baffled like a slave in trying to make out the meaning of two very different sets of stamens in some Melastomaceae.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

I was so much struck with this fact with Lythrum, that I began experimenting on some Melastomaceae, which have two sets of extremely differently coloured anthers.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

We can conceive that a small number of the families of plants, for instance the musaceae and the palms, cannot belong to very cold regions, on account of their internal structure, and the importance of certain organs; but we cannot explain why no one of the family of the Melastomaceae vegetates north of the parallel of the thirtieth degree of latitude, or why no rose-tree belongs to the southern hemisphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

Several letters on the Melastomaceae occur in our Botanical section.).    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

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

Melastomaceae, 9 725.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

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

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

In Melastomaceae.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

Melastomaceae, 1862-1881.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

Commelineae, Eriocauloneae, Xyres, almost all the grasses, Melastomaceae, almost all the Leguminosae and the preponderance of tropical Rubiaceae, which are, however, few, Scitamineae, Epiphytical Orchideae, Urena.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference