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Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 480. Melastoma ? littoreum^ Wall. Cat. 

 4087. 



A sea-shore plant, Singapore, Johore, Malacca, Peuak. Distrib. 

 Burma, Borneo, Java. 



4. OcHTHOCHARis JDECCMBENS, King, n. sp. A Creeping or decumbent 

 sbrub, 3 to 5 feet long ; stems as thick as a swan's quill, rounded, often 

 rooting at the nodes. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, 

 shortly acuminate, rounded or cuneate at the base, the edges obscurely 

 bristle-serrate, 5-7-nerved ; upper surface glabrous ; the lower pale and 

 with a few minute, scattered scales ; length 5 to 7*5 in. ; breadth 2 to 3 

 in. ; petioles unequal, stout, sparsely scaly, '5 to 125 in. long. Flowers 

 in dense, axillary cymes shorter than the petioles, the pedicels short, 

 bracteolate. Calyx-tube glabrous, faintly ribbed, the teeth 4, small. 

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

 tapering to the truncate apex, slightly produced at the base and with a 

 minute tubercle behind. Capsule depressed-globose, glabrous, faintly 

 4-grooved, "18 in. in diam. 



Perak ; King's Collector, 2833, 10425. 



7. Anerincleistus, Korth. 



Shrubs ; branches often round. Leaves petioled, ovate or lanceolate, 

 entire, 3-7-nerved. Floivers small. Calyx-tube campanulate or funnel- 

 shaped ; lobes 4, usually very small. Petals 4, minute, glabrous. 

 S tamest s 8, equsil; anthers attenuate at the top, opening by oue pore, 

 scarcely produced at the base ; connective with or without a short spur. 

 Ovary nearly free, 4-celled ; style filiform, simple ; ovules many. 

 Capsule splitting by 4 large valves at the summit. Seeds exceedingly 

 minute, cuneate-obovoid. Distrib. Species 9 or 10 ; Malaya and 

 Burma. 



Inflorescence umbellate; leaves small, oblong- or elliptic-lanceolate :— 



Nearly glabrous in all its parts ... ... ... 1. A. macranthus. 



More or less pilose : — 



Calyx-tube mealy tomentose, the teeth narrow, glan- 

 dular ciliate on the edges ... ... 2. A. Scortechinii. 



Calyx-tube not tomentose but with many long spreading 



gland-tipped haii'S, the teeth minute and without hairs 3. A. Gurtisii. 

 Inflorescence a large panicle ; leaves large, ovate : — 



Panicle densely tomentose, leaves 7-nerved ,.. ... 4. A. jloribundus. 



Panicle clotbed with short, flat, adpressed, scale-like hairs, 



leaves 5-nerved ... ... ... ... 5. A. suhlepidohis. 



1. Anerincleistus macranthus. King, n. sp. A small shrub ; 

 young branches with pale lenticels, glabrous except for a few adpressed 

 hairs at the apices. Leaves nearly equal, elliptic-lanceolate, much 

 narrowed to the base, the apex shortly acuminate ; both surfaces 



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