Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 1 1 



Upper surface very sparsely strigose (glabrous in old leaves) ; the lower 

 glabrous, pale, the transverse nerves prominent; length 4o to 11 in,; 

 breadth 1'5 to 5 in. ; petiole '75 to 4 in. Panicle usually solitary, ter- 

 minal, often longer than the leaves, lax, minutely rusty-pubescent ; bracts 

 lanceolate or oblong, deciduous; ilne flowers '1 in. long, shortly pedicel- 

 late, in stalked umbels on the ultimate branchlets or in subsessile 

 fascicles. Calyx rusty-puberulous, with 3 or 4 short broad teeth. 

 Stamens 6 or 8, alternately long and short, sagittate at the base and with 

 a small linear appendage behind. Petals 3 or 4, rosy. Capsule less than 

 •1 in. long, boldly 6-ribbed. Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XV, 310 ; 

 Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVIII, 74 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. II, 527 ; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 464. Melastoma exigua. 

 Jack in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV, 10, tab. 1, fig. 2; DC. Prod. Ill, 149. 

 M. impuher, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 405 ; Wall. Cat. 4048. 



Malacca; Gri^th 2263 & 4 (K.D.) ; Maingay 776 (K.D.) ; Karvey, 

 Penang ; Wallich 4048 ; Curtis 399 ; Griffi,th ; King. Perak ; Scortechini 

 227, 383; Wray 160; Ki^ig's Collector 450, 2302, 3J06. Distrib. 

 Sumatra ; Forhes 3062. 



There is some variety in this plant as regards size and inflorescence. A slender 

 form, which never exceeds 2 or 3 feet in height and which has smaller leaves than the 

 type, seems worthy of separation as a variety. It appears to have been so recognised 

 by Wallich who, in distributing his Herbarium, distinguished it by the letter a. A 

 less distinctly marked form is one in which the flowers are grouped on the branches 

 of the inflorescence in dense almost sessile fascicles. 



Var. minor, King. Leaves narrowly elliptic, tapering much to base 

 and apex, 2 to 4 5 in. long ; inflorescence slender, few-flowered, very lax : 

 height only 2 to 3 feet. 



Penang ; Wallich, Cat. 4048a ; Curtis 73. Perak ; Scortechini 

 1702 ; Wray 161, 3414 ; King's Collector 2302. 



2. Allomorphia Wrayi, King, n. sp. A shrub, 2 to 4 feet high ; 

 branches and petioles with flexuose, spreading, ferruginous hairs. 

 Leaves 7-nerved, broadly ovate to rotund-ovate, the apex shortly and 

 abruptly acuminate, the base narrowed, the edges obscurely and minutely 

 bristle-toothed : upper surface very sparsely strigose or glabrous, often 

 with minute, brown scales on the chief nerves ; lower glabrous ; 

 length 5 to 9 in., breadth 3*5 to 5b in. ; petiole 2-25 to 2*75 in. Panicles 

 solitary, axillary, slightly longer than the petioles but much shorter 

 than the leaves, glabrous or rusty puberulous towards the extremities : 

 the branches short, spreading, rather condensed when young, few 

 flowered. Calyx-tube widely campanulate, minutely rusty-puberulous or 

 almost glabrous, without ribs ; the mouth truncate, slighly waved but 

 not toothed. Petals 4. Stamens 8, equal, the anthers lobed but not 

 sagittate at the base, the back with a slight supra-basal appendage 



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