14 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



scaly-puberulous on fclie nerves and prominent transverse veins ; length 

 25 -to 5 in., breadth 1'25 to 2 in., petiole '35 to 85 in. Panicle cymose, 

 terminal, spreading, less than half as long as the leaves ; branches 

 opposite, pedicels unequal, bracteolate at the base, not quite so long as 

 the flowers. Petals 5, ovate-acuminate. Stamens 10, anthers oblong, 

 blunt, not produced at the base and with the connective inappendiculate. 

 Capsule depressed -globular, glabrous, with 5 shallow grooves, '2 in. 

 in diam. Blume Mus. Bot. I, 40 ; Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, XV, 

 307, with fig. ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 656 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. XXYIII, 74. C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 528 ; 

 Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 480. Melastoma oxyphyllum, Benth. in 

 Wall. Cat. 4083. 



Singapore ; Wallich, Distrib. Borneo. 



2. OcHTHOCHARis BORNEENSis, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 40, 

 A shrub, 3 or 4 feet high. Leaves membranous, elliptic- lanceolate, 

 5-nerved (the lateral pair small), acuminate, the base cuneate, the 

 edges minutely dentate, upper surface glabrous, the lower pale, minutely 

 and furfuraceously stellate-bairy on the main and rather prominent 

 tranverse nerves ; length 3 to 4*25 in. ; breadth 1*25 to 1*75 in. ; petioles 

 sparsely stellate-hairy, unequal, '3 to 1*8 in. long. Flowers in fascicles 

 of 4 to 7, from tubercles on the stem below the leaves ; the buds 

 conical, *! in. long ; pedicels slender, ebracteolate, '25 to "3 in. long. 

 Petals 4, broadly ovate, narrowly acuminate. Stamens 8 ; the anthers 

 oblong, blunt, neither produced nor appendiculate at the base. Capsule 

 depressed-globular, glabrous, faintly 5-grooved, '2 in. in diam. Naud. 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XV, 307 ; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 480. 

 0. huruensis, Teysm. and Binn. in Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. XXV, 426 ; 

 Miq. in Ann. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 216. 



Singapore ; Ridley 6221. Distrib. Borneo, Molluccas. 



3. OcHTHOCHARis JAVANICA, Blumc in Flora 1831, 523. A shrub, 

 2 or 3 feet high. Leaves subcoriaceous, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute, the base cuneate, 3-nerved ; both surfaces glabrous and with the 

 nerves indistinct ; the lower rather pale when dry, the edges remotely 

 bristle-serrate ; length 2 to 3*5 in. ; breadth "6 to 1 in. ; petiole "2 

 to '5 in. Cymes or fascicles about as long as the petioles, few- 

 flowered ; pedicels slender, minutely bracteolate at the base, "IS to "45 in. 

 long. Flower-hnds "15 in. long, much pointed. Petals 5, broadly ovate, 

 abruptly acuminate. Anthers 5, twice as long as the filaments, minutely 

 spurred at the base behind. Capsule subglobular, with 5 shallow 

 grooves, glabrous, '15 to '2 in. in diam. ; the placentas persistent, woody, 

 rough on their outer surfaces. Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XV, 307 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 556 ; Kurz, For. Fl. I, 507. Triana Melast. 

 74, tab. VI, fig. 67; C. B.. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 528; 



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