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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.
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These include Pittosporum parvifolium, Metrosideros boninsis, Melastoma tetramerum, and Rhododendron boninense.
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Begonia and Melastoma, continually attract the attention in this region.
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In this place may also be mentioned the hypertrophied condition of the placenta observed by Alphonse de Candolle in a species of _Solanum_, and also in a species of _Melastoma_.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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_Melastoma_ and _Solanum_ have been put on record by M.Alph. de
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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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.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant
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He says he has had a letter from you about Melastoma, but has not, he says, for three years seen a single melastomaceous plant!
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant
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He says he has had a letter from you about Melastoma, but has not, he says, for three years seen a single melastomaceous plant!
Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916
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Sincere thanks about Melastoma: these flowers have baffled me, and I have caused several friends much useless labour; though, Heaven knows,
Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916
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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.
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 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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