Tas. 7324, 
_ ALLOMORPHIA Gurerrrutt. 
Native of the Malayan Peninsula, 
Nat. Ord. Metastomacez.—Tribe OxysPorez. 
Genus AtLomorrurA, Blume ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 752.) 
AtLomorpuia Griffithii; herbacea, subacaulis, rhizomate lignescente, foliis 
amplis orbicularibus profunde cordatis glanduloso-denticulatis 7-9 
costatis clathratim nervosis supra flavo-viridibus subtus roseis nervis 
petioloqgue elongato brunneis puberulis, pedunculis strictis elongatis 
pedicellisque rubris puberulis, panicula elongata angusta, floribus sub- 
verticillatim fasciculatis patulis, calycis tubuloso-campanulati obtuse 
4-dentato petalis orbiculatis albis duplo longiore, antheris subulatis basi 
profunde 2-fidis, disco tubuloso obtuse breviter 4-lobo, lobis rotundatis 
ciliolatis. 
A Griffithii, Hook. f. ex Naud. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxviii. p. 74, t. 66, ¢. 
C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind, vol. ii. p. 527. ‘ogn. Monogr. 
Melast. p. 467. 
Allomorphia is, a Burmese and Malayan genus of 
Melastomacex, established by Blume in 1881, upon a 
shrubby species (A. exigua) the Melastoma ewigua of 
Jack, which extends from Penang and Malacca to the- 
Philippine Islds. ; the specific name, no doubt, applying to 
the small size of the flowers. | 
To this Bentham (in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. i. p. 
485) added a supposed Chinese species, A. pauciflora, 
which is however a species of Blastus, and Kurz (in Flora 
(1871) p. 290) a Burmese one, A. hispida, which, if his 
description of the “ovary adnate to the calyx at the 
base only ”’ be correct, can hardly be congeneric (he possibly 
mistook a free tubular disk (such as is shown at fig. 4 of 
the plate here given of A. Griffithii, for the ovary). I 
have seen no specimens of it. A still more doubtful species 
is A. ? ovalifolia, Naud. (in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxviii. 
p. 74) founded on the Anplectrum ovalifolium, Naud. (in 
A. Gray, Bot. U.S. Expl. Exped. vol. i. p. 197) a Fijian 
plant. Two other undoubted species, A. wmbellulata, 
(Hook. f.) and the subject of this plate made up all that was 
Novemser Ist, 1893. 
