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distichous; at the summits spreading pendent with leaves on all sides. Leaves 1-2 in.^ 

 narrowed at the base, minutely furfuraceous or nearly glabrous, S-nerved from the 

 base with two additional nerves from the midrib much higher up ; petiole ^ in. Petals 

 i in.—" One of the most beautiful of Ceylon plants " (Thwaites). 



6. AZiXiOMORPRIA, ^/i^me. 



Shrubs^ tall or short. 



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Leaves opposite, long-petioled, large, lanceolate ovate 

 or orbicular, 15--nerved, glabrous or nearly so. Panicles terminal, compound^ 

 with small flowers in clustered whorls. 



Tilate, limb of 4 very short lobes. 



Calyx-tube funnel-shaped or campan- 

 Petak 4, rose or white, small. Stamens 8y 



nearly equal ; anthers attenuated at the top with one pore, cells long-produced 

 and diverging at their bases ; connective without appendage, Ova/y S- (rarely 

 4-) celled enclosed by but nearly free from the calyx- tube; style filiform^ 

 simple ; ovules very many, placentas axile, 2-fid. Capsule small, dry, um-shaped 

 or 8ubcylindric, ribbed, opening at the top by 3-4 valves. Seeds very many^ 

 narrowly obtrapezoidal. — Distrib. Species 5 : whereof 4 are from the Malay 

 Peninsula and its attached islands ; 1 from Canton, 



' 1- A. ezig*ua, Blwne in Flora^ 1831, p. 523 ; leaves lanceolate or ovate* 

 lanceolate not cordate at the very base, pedicels in fniit not more fhan f in.^ 

 fruit ovoid 3-celled prominently 6-ribbed contracted at the top below the 

 permanent calyx-rim. Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat.ser. 3. xv- 310; Triana in Traits. 

 Linn, Soc. xxrai, 74. Melastoma exigua, Jack in Trans, Linn. Soc. xiv. 10 j 

 -DC. Prodr. iii, 149 ; Wall. Cat 4048. 



Penang and Maiacca ; WalUch, Griffith, &c. — Distrib. Philippines. 

 ..t^ A tall shrub, nearly glabrous. Leaves often 9-10 in. ; petiole 1-3 in. Panicle 

 minutely rusty -pubescent; bracts i-| in., lanceolate or narroM'-spathulate. Cali/x-tube 

 most minutely hairy, Ripe/rwiY ^ in. broad. 



'2. A. umbellulata, Hooh.f, ms,) Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii* 



74; leaves lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate often cordate at the very base, pedi- 

 cels mnbellulate in bud i in. and more. Kurz For. Fl. i. 606. 



Tenasseeim or Axdamans; Heifer (Kew Distrib. No. 2260). 



Shrub 10 ft. (Heifer); nearly glabrous except the panicle which is minutely pu- 

 bescent and much more lax than that of A. exigua. Flowers larger than those of A. 

 ''^gua. Calyx-tube in the young flowers funnel-shaped rather than campanulate ;. 

 teeth more prominent. Fruit unfaiown. 



Griffithil, Hook. f. MS, 



le elongate with 

 umbeUed or clus 



Malacca, Griffith, Walker, Maingt 

 Almost stemless ; rootstock woody, 

 or slightly puberulous beneath. ^ ' 

 campanulate, minutely hairy. 



Leaves b-^ in. long and more broad, glabrous 

 Panicle about 12 in., rusty- pubescent. Calyx-tube 

 Fruit unknown. 



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4. A., hispida, Kurz in Flora^ 1871, 290; petioles thick 5 in. hispid . 

 bristly, leaves 8-9 in. ovate 9-aibbed sparsely bristly above more densely beneath 

 ^speciallv on th^ naTvAfl t^oh^pIps (rlflhrnus or with bristles at the divisions, nedi- 



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**uwu carrying some long bristles snon 

 Wnate to the calyx near the base only. 



B^HMA, Martaban ; Dr. Brandis (Kurz). 



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