पेड़ों और झाड़ियों के एक परिवार और आदेश myrtales के जड़ी बूटियों; कई को सजावटी के रूप में खेती की जाती है

melastomaceae's Usage Examples:

Among the orders more strongly represented in Sumatra than in Java are the Dipterocarpaceae, Chrysobalanaceae, sclerocarp 1Vlyrtaceae, Melastomaceae, Begonias, Nepenthes, Oxalidaceae, Myristicaceae, Ternstrbmiaceae, Connaraceae, Amyridaceae, Cyrtandraceae, Epacridaceae and Eriocaulaceae.

With the cinchona trees grow many kinds of melastomaceae, especially the Lasiandra, with masses of purple flowers, tree-ferns and palms. In the warm valleys there are large plantations of coca (Erythroxylon Coca), the annual produce of which is stated at 15,000,000 lb.

And it cannot be doubted that the profusion of Melastomaceae in South America was not derived from elsewhere, but the result of local evolution.

Melastomaceae, copiously represented in tropical America, are more feebly so in Peru and wholly wanting in Chile.

Nearly related to myrtles are Melastomaceae which, poorly represented in the Old World, have attained here so prodigious a development in genera and species, that Ball looks upon it as the seat of origin of the family.

melastomaceae's Meaning':

a family of trees and bushes and herbs of order Myrtales; many are cultivated as ornamentals