These nests were composed of a soft cotton-down, which the ants had collected from a species of melastoma, a handsome shrub found growing in these regions; and this down Guapo knew to be the best for blood-stopping.
"Popular Adventure Tales"
Mayne Reid
The rock of which the hill is composed, is a slag-like ochreous sandstone, covered in most places with a shrubbery of rose-flowered melastoma, and some peculiar plants.
"Himalayan Journals V2."
J. D. Hooker