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bristle-liairs. Panicle terminal, solitary, shorter than the leaves, ever^'- 

 where densely riisty-tomeutose with long bristles intermixed, annulate 

 at the bases of the short, spreading, few-flowered branches. Calyx-ttibe 

 cylindric ; the mouth undulate-truncate, obscurely toothed, its outer 

 surface stellate-lepidote with a few long bristles near the mouth. 

 Petals 4, ovate, glabrous. Stamens 8 (4 large and 4 small) ; the large 

 broad, and with a short, grooved ridge on the back near the base, 

 blunt; the 4 small linear, very acuminate. Capsule ovoid-globular, 

 truncate, nearly glabrous, '15 in. in diam. 

 Perak ; Scortechini 2106. 



2. Anplbctrum qlaucum, Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXYIII, 

 84 (excluding much of the synonymtj), Scandent, to 20 or 30 feet ; 

 young branches 4-grooved, stellate-hairy like the petioles and main 

 nerves of the leaves and the inflorescence, the nodes inconspicuously 

 annulate or transversely ridged. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, rounded or 

 slightly narrowed to the often slightly cordate base, the apex shortly 

 acuminate or acute, boldly 3-nerved ; both surfaces glabrous except 

 for some scattered, stellate hairs; length 3 to 5 in. ; breadth 1 to 2 in. ; 

 petiole "5 to "25 in. Particle large, terminal, solitary, several times 

 larger than the leaves, pyramidal, its branches divaricate, many- 

 flowered. Flowers drooping, '4 or '5 in. long (including the stamens). 

 Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, sub-glabrous ; the mouth truncate, not 

 toothed, everted with age. Petals ovate-lanceolate with truncate bases, 

 the apex acuminate. Stamens 4; anthers much curved, all perfect, 

 their bases not lobed but with a corrugated membranous process in 

 front. Ovary prominently 4- winged. Fruit truncate, sub-globular, 

 glabrous, '2 in. long (when dry). C. B.' Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. II, 545 ; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. YII, 566. A. cyanocarpum^ 

 Kurz in Journ., As. Soc, 1877, pt. 2, p. 78 (not of Triana). Melastoma 

 glaucay Jack in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV, 15; DC. Prodr., 151. 

 M. cernuum^ Wall. Cat. 4055 (not of Roxb.). Oshechia tetrandra, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. II, 22 A. Dissochwta glanca, Blume in Flora, 1831, p. 501. 

 D. spoliata, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XV, 69, t. 4, fig. 1. 



In all the provinces, common. Distrib. Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 



3. Anplectrum fallens, Blame, Mus. Bot. 1, 38. Scandent, to 30 

 or 40 feet ; young branches terete, glabrous or minutely puberalous, 

 especially near the slightly thickened and transversely ridged nodes, 

 round. Leaves oblong, the base rounded, the apex abruptly, bluntly and 

 shortly sub-caudate acuminate, 5-nerved (the marginal pair slender), 

 the edges (when dry) slightly recurved; upper surface glabrous, the 

 lovver minutely and scantily stellate-puberulous ; length 1*5 to 4*5 in., 

 breadth '5 to 1*5 in. ; petiole 1 to '2 in. Panicles axillary (about as 



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