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rowed upwards, calyx-mouth appearing only as a scar. Korth, Verh. Nat Gesch. 

 Bot 2Q7 ) Naud. in Ann. Sc. NaL ser. 3. xv. 75 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat I pt. i. 

 626; Trianain Tram. Linn, Soc, xxviii. 83. Melastorua gracile, Jack in Trans. 

 Linn, Soc. xiv. 14 ; i)G Prodr. iii. 149. M. fallax, Wall. Cat. 4080. ? M. glauca, 

 Griff. le. PI. Asiat. 637. 



PiNAKG and Singapore ; Wallich, — Distrib. Malay Archipelago. 



Leaves 3 in. ; petiole sometimes f in. Nodes of panicle often thickened. Sta?nc7is 

 8 or 4, as in the two preceding species. Petals nearly white (Jack). Bracts I in., 

 oblong, much exceeding the expanding buds. 



15. ANPXiECTRUM,^. Gray. 



Twining shrubs. 



Leaves opposite, short-petioled, entire, oblong, narrowed 

 upwards, 3-5-nerved from the base. Flowers not large, white, in terminal pa- 

 nicles sometimes leafy at the base. Calyx-tuhe ovoid, limb obscurely 4-lobed or 

 truncate. Petals 4:. Staviens 4 perfect; anthers attenuated upwaixis, opening 

 by one pore, connective at base shortly appendaged or subnude, never with two 

 long bristles in front ; imperfect stamens 4, 2, or 0, with a rudimentary anther 

 often bicaudate. Ovary 4-celled, free at the apex, with 4 vertical ridges; 

 style simple; ovules many, placentas axile, JJerry ovoid or globose, crQwned 

 ^ith the calyx-limb. Seeds very many, small, falcate^ obbvoid; raphe long, 

 lateral. — Distrib. Species 12, extending from Mergui, Pinang and Singapore 



to Borneo, and fVlP Plinirvr^in^a 



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1. A. g'laucum, Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 84 excL many oftM 

 *yw. ; leaves 4-6 in. from a broad or subcordate base glabrous beneath suddenly 

 narrowed into a short obtuse subcaudate tip. A. cyanocarpum, Kurz in Journ. 

 ^s. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 78^ not of Triana. Dissochseta spoliata. Naud. in Ann. So. 

 ^^' ser. 3. XV. 69, t. 4, fig, 1; Miq. Fl. Ind Bat. i. pt. i. 521. 3Ielastoma 



cernuum, WalL Cat. 4054, not of 



tetrandra, Poxb. Fl. Ind. 



M. glaucum, WalL Cat. 4055. Os- 



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Wallich. Mergui and Malay 



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ittlV ^^^ingay No. 793-2. Tenasserim or Andamans ; Heifer (Kew Pistrib. No. 



"^^^y— Distrib. Malay Archipelago. 

 Jf lowers cernuous. Shorter stamens 4, 2or0. Fruit J-f^ in. broad. Pedicels a.r\(\ 

 ^alyx-tube minutely puberulous, plant otherwise glabrous. — A. cyanocarpum, Triana. 

 Ij^s the stem somewhat thickly covered with long spreading bristles. None of the 

 plants collected within the area of the Indian Flora show such bristles : the two spp- 

 ?jes may not be distinct, but Mr. Kurz, while not uniting them, says that Heifer s 



0. 2290 is Triana's A. cyanocarpum, which must be wrong, as Triana has written A. 

 9^ucum on Heifer's No. 2:90. 



J,, .^: A- Pallens, Blume Mus. Bot i. 38; leaves ^'^ in. glabrous or mi- 

 .r^y puberulous beneath 3-nerved (scarcely 5-nerved) suddenly narrowed into 



\}^^^ obtuse subcaudate tip. Naud. in Ann. Sc. ^'at. ser. 3. xv. 304 



Bat. i. pt. i. 554 : Ti 



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in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 84. Melastoma 



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usually 0. Fruit ^ in. broad, glabrous.' Young cclyx-tube often 



y rufous tomentose.— Some of the Archipelago examples have 



^ ^t in. and are then verv like A. glaucum. 



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