Oxyspora.'] lix. melastomace^. 767 



stamens unequal of 2 kinds. 



Big shrub or tree, glabrous ..... 



Dwarf shrubs, hairy ...... 



Dwarf shrub, velvety ; fruit semi-globose 

 Stamens similar and equal. 

 Tall shrub. 



Leaves ovate, pubescent beneath. 



Fruit goblet-shaped ..... 



Low shrubs. 



Leaves elliptic cordate ; petiole hairy 

 Leaves glabrous, membranous; flowers sub- 

 umbelled, few ...... 



Leaves glabrous membranous ; panicle large. 

 Capsule obconic ...... 



Capsule fusiform ...... 



Leaves glabrous coriaceous. 

 Branches terete; panicle hairy 

 Branches 4-angled ; panicle. 

 Leaves puberulous ...... 



(i) O. stellulata King, I.e. 9. 



A large shrub or tree, 5 to 30 ft. tall. Branches scurfy with 

 minute scales. Leaves ovate acuminate, base round cordate, 5- to 

 7-nerved, scurfy, 5 to 9 in. long, 2-25 to 4-5 in. wide; petioles 1-25 

 to 4 in. long. Panicles large, terminal, 8 in. long, 10 in. wide, 

 scurfy. Flowers rose pink in umbels of 4 to 6 on the terminal 

 branchlets. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, teeth 4 short, base narrowed 

 into the pedicel, -2 in. long. Petals 4, orbicular-ovate, small. 

 Stamens 8, 4 linear, purple, 4 half as long, yellow. Capsule clavate, 

 opening by 4 truncate valves. Hah. Mountain forests, 2000 ft. 

 altitude upwards, a very handsome plant in flower. Perak, Thaiping 

 Hills; Gunong Batu Putih (Wray) ; Gunong Kerbau (Haniff). 

 Kelantan, Chaning. Disirih. Sumatra. 



(2) O. hispida Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 57, p. 34. 

 Shrub. Branches, panicles and nerves covered with cylindric 



subulate processes. Leaves ovate or orbicular-ovate acuminate, 

 base cordate covered thinly above, thickly beneath with small 

 processes ; nerves 9, more hairy, reticulations and transverse nerves 

 conspicuous beneath, 7 in. long, 6 in. wide; petioles 2-5 in. long, 

 hairy. Panicles 12 to 18 in. long, lower branches 6 in. long. Flowers 

 and pedicels -5 in. long hairy. Calyx goblet-shaped, narrowed into 

 pedicel, lobes small, triangular. Petals 4, ovate-acuminate. 

 Stamens 8, longer ones -12 in. long, acuminate, shorter ones less 

 curved and acuminate, all yellow. Capsule urn-shaped -12 in. long ; 

 lobes ovate acute. Hab. Mountains. Selangor, Mengkuang Lebah 

 at 5400 ft. altitude (F. Dennys; Robinson). 



(3) O. microcarpa Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 57, p. 34. 

 AUomorphia rosea Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mus. iv. 14 (not of Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, iii. 301). 



Much-branched shrub 8 to 9 ft. tall, velvety. Leaves ovate- 

 cordate above glabrous, beneath hairy on nerves 7, and nervules, 



