8 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



the lobes large, adpressed strigose on both surfaces : flowers occasionally 

 only 125 in. in diam. 



Pekak; Ridley 2935! Curtis 1298! Wray 1733, 1883! King's 

 Collector 2i73, 2091, 8463! ScorteMni 780. Singapore; Bullet 5728. 

 SeFjANGORE ; Bidley \d9Q. Distrib. Java; Forhes \14Qa. 



This has broader leaves more softly hairy than var. normalis. The bristles of 

 the calyx are much longer than in any other form of M. malahathricum and approach in 

 number, length and density those of M. sanguineum, Don. A form of this from Perak, 

 with the calyx-hairs shorter than the type, connects it with M. imhricatum, Wall. 



3. OXTSPORA, DC. 



Large spreading shrubs with drooping branches terminated by 

 large, lax, almost naked panicles of rose-purple flowers. Leaves opposite, 

 long-petioled, large, 5- to 7-nerved, ovate, acuminate. Panicle long, lax, 

 sometimes narrow, the branches decussate, the flowers on the branchlets 

 not glomerulate, bracts very small. Calyx-tube ovate, cylindric or 

 funnel-shaped, its teeth 4, short, triangular. Stamens 8, four large with 

 elongated anthers and four small, or all equal, opening by a single 

 apical pore ; the base produced and bilobed, the connective with or 

 without an appendage. Ovary inferior, 4-celled, its apex glabrous ; 

 style simple, elongate ; ovules numerous ; the placentas axile, radiating. 

 Capsule dry, elongate, double fusiform, with 8 ribs. Seeds numerous, 

 falcate ; the raphe lateral, produced at the apex into a point in front. 

 Distrib. Seven species, Indian and Malayan. 



Anthers dissimilar ; petioles not winged ... ... 1. 0. stellulata. 



Anthers similar : — 



Petioles not winged ... ... ... 2. 0. acutangula. 



„ winged ... ... ... 3. 0. Curtisii. 



NOTE. 

 The genera Allomorphia and Oxyspora were so dijBGlcult of separation even before 

 the discovery of the new species herein described (viz., A. alata, Scort., O. acutangula 

 and 0. Curtisii) that Baillon {Hist, des Plantes Yll, 48) united them. In Baillon'g 

 time Oxys'pora was distinguished mainly by having four of its eight stamens much 

 larger than and differently coloured from the other four. The three older species 

 (all British Indian) 0. paniculata, 0. vagans, and 0. cernua and the new Malayan 

 one 0. stellulata have this character, which would form an excellent head-mark for 

 the genus if it did not break down. The character, however, does break down, for 

 in the two Malayan plants here published as 0. acutangula and 0. Curtisii the eight 

 anthers are all equal, although in all other respects these plants have the facies of 

 the older species of Oxyspora. I have referred these to Oxyspora as preferable to 

 the alternative course of putting them into Allomorphia, and I have therefore, in 

 order to admit them, modified the generic character of Oxyspora as regards anthers. 

 Oxyspora, as here defined, thus depends for its separation as a genus on its open 

 paniculate inflorescence and long double fusiform boldly-ridged capsules, while 

 Allomorphia is characterised by shortly-branched panicles, on the ultimate branchlets 

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