10 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



numerous 4-angled branches, bracteate, everywhere minutely lepidote j 

 the larger branches bearing a pair of very unequal bracts near the base 

 exactly like the stem-leaves but smaller. Flowers on slender pedicels 

 as long as the calyx-tube. Galyx-tuhe cylindric, 8-ribbed, tapering to 

 base and apex ; the mouth expanded and truncate bat with 4 minute 

 teeth. Petals 4, as long as the scaberulous filaments. Stamens 8, much 

 exserted ; the anthers longer than the filaments and longer than the 

 calyx-tube, linear, acuminate, very slightly lobed at the base and 

 inappendiculate. Oapsziles fusiform, '2 in. long, much expanded at 

 the mouth. 



Perak; Curtis 1300, 



The only specimen of this which I have seen is in Mr. Cnrfcis's Herbarium. 



The species resembles AUomorphia alata, Scort. in its eight equal stamens, in 

 the shape of its leaves and in its winged petioles ; but differs in its more elongated 

 capsules (which are fusiform instead of globose), in its larger laxer panicles and in 

 its conspicuously bristle-serrate leaves. The two species just described form very 

 marked connecting links between the genera Allomor'jpMa and Oxys^ora. 



4. Allomoephia, Blume. 



Shrubs, tall or short. Leaves opposite, long-petioled, large, lanceo- 

 late, ovate or orbicular, nerved, glabrous or nearly so. Panicles terminal, 

 compound, with small flowers in clustered whorls. Calyx-tube funnel- 

 shaped or campanulate, limb of 3 or 4 very short lobes. Petals 3 or 4, 

 rose or white, small. Stamens 6 or 8, nearly equal ; anthers attenuated 

 at the top with ons pore, cells long-produced and diverging at their 

 bases ; connective without appendage. Ovary 3- (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, not much 

 longer than broad, usually urn-shaped, 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. 



Petioles not winged : — 



Calyx-tube with 3 or 4 teeth ; stamens unequal ; anthers sagittate 



at base ; capsule ribbed ... ... ... ... l. A.exigua. 



Calyx-tube without teeth ; stamens equal ; anthers only slightly 



lobed at the base ; capsules not ribbed ... ... 2. A. Wrayi. 



Petioles winged : — 



Branches of the panicle winged; capsule sub-globular ... 3. A. alata. 



1. Allomorphia exigua, Blume in Flora 183 J, II, 523. A shrub, 

 2 to 10 feet high ; branches slender, subangular, puberulous or glabrous. 

 Leaves elliptic-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, those of the same 

 pair often unequal iu size ; the base rounded or narrowed, not cordate ; 



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