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Leaves 4-5 in. (in some examples attaining 14^ in,), ovate, acute; petiole 1-2 in., 

 at its apex are some rough bristles. Longer stamens -vrith the anther-cells diverging 

 below the truncate base of the connective -where the filament is attached. Fruii, 

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2. O. vagrans, Wall. Cat 4075^ partly/; branchlets petioles and nerves of 

 the leaves beneath with some scattered patent villous hairs, capsule elliptic pro- 

 minently narrowed below the enlarged calyx-mouth, seeds blunt-headed with a 

 sharp right angle at the top of the back and a very short point at the top in 

 front. 0. vagans^ var, a. Wall. PL As. Ear. p. 78 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc^ 

 xxviii. 73 ; Kurz For. FL i. 505. Melastoma vagans, Roxh. Hort, Beng.^ 33 j 

 jF7. Ind. ii. 404. Homocentria vaerans. Naud. in Ann, Sc. Nat, ser. S. xv. 308.! 



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A rather smaller shrub than the preceding with the panicle generally more 

 slender. Longer stamens with the anther-cells slightly produced at the base^ con^ 

 nective having added to its base a linear spur. — Wall, Cat. 4075 contains some p, 

 paniculata not any 0, cernua. . ;V ' 



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y. cernua, Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc, xxviii. 73; glabrous, capsulb 

 tnmcate hardly narrowed below the calyx-mouth, seeds simply falcate, 

 br. Fl. i. 505. O. vagans var. 0. Wall. PI. As. Par. p. 78. Melastoma 

 Poxb. Hort. Peng. 33 ; FL Ind. ii. 404. AUozygia cernua, AW. ^n 

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i A shrub, generally resembling 0. paniculata. Leaves commonly 6 in., att^ming 

 12iin. in some examples; petiole 2 in, Eachis of the panicle somewhat sharply 

 quadrangular at the base, but cannot be said to be 4-wiHged in any of the specimen* 

 at Kew (as Eoxburgh states it to be), linger stamens with the anther-cells shortly 

 produced and diverging below the truncate base of the connective where the filament 

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r, ascending to the top of the highest trees, when in blossom ting- 

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 Flowers terminal, in few-flowered umbels or solitary, large ; peduncles stout, ^ 



7alyx urn-shaped, rose-purple ; limb shortly 4-toothed, greenis - 



Pe^fffe 4, fleshy, a fine red. Stamens 8 - ^ ^^' . .i,. «+^^«.in+pd sunumv 



opening by one pore, at the base she 

 about J in. at the base. Ovary inferioi 

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 4-6:celled ; style simple, fiHform ; ovules 

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