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long as the leaves) and terminal (mucli longer than the leaves), slender, 

 spreading, lax, rather few-flowerecl, with a small, blunt, oblong, deciduous 

 bract under each branch, finely rufotis stellate-pubescent. Flowers 

 about '4 in. long (including the stamens). Calyx-tuhe ovoid to 

 globular-ovoid, densely rufous-pnberulous when young, glabrous when 

 old, the moulh slightly expanded and with very small teeth. Petals 

 ovate, acute, glabrous. Anthers ; the four large much curved and sub- 

 acute ; the rudimentary linear, acuminate. Capsule globose-obovoid, 

 glabrous, 'IS in. in diam. Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XV, 303 ; 

 Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVIII, 303 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. II, 545; Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. VII, 564. Melastoma 

 petiolare, Wall. Cat. 4053. 



In all the provinces except the Andaman and Nicobar Islands ; 

 not uncommon. Distrib. Sumatra, Borneo. 



4. Anplectrum divarfcatum, Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVIII, 

 84 (in part), tab. VIT, fig. 906. Scandent, to 20 or 30 feet; young 

 branches obscurely quadrangular, and like the petioles, nerves of the 

 leaves on both surfaces, and tlie inflorescence, densely covered with 

 tawny, stellate scales, not annulate at the nodes. Leaves lanceolate, 

 acute or sub-acute, the base minutely cordate, 5-nerved, the maiginal 

 pair slender ; both surfaces, but especially the lower, with glandular- 

 punctate scales between the nerves and veins; length 2 to 3 in.; 

 breadth '6 to I'l in. ; petiole "15 to '25 in. Panicle solitary, terminal, 

 pyramidal, several times as long as the leaves, the branchlets divaricate, 

 each with two ovate-lanceolate, ciliate, furfuraceous, deciduous bracts at 

 its base and three flowers in a cyme at the apex. Flowers '4 in. long, 

 on short pedicels. Petals oblong, acute. Calyx-tube narrowly obovoid, 

 campanulate, truncate, densely furfuraceous stellate-tomentose. Anthers 

 8 ; the 4 large thick and much curved, obtuse ; the smaller narrow. 

 Capsule globose- obovoid, with a narrow, everted rim, length -15 to '2 

 in. 0. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 546 ; Cogn. in DC. Mon. 

 Phan. VII, 567. Melastoma divaricatum, Willd. Spec. PI. II, 596; DC. 

 Prodr. Ill, 150. M. polyanthum, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 4051. Disso- 

 chseta divaricata and D. pepericarpay Naud. Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XV, 

 70 and 71. D. anceps^ Naud. I.e. 70. D. palemhanica, Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. Suppl. 317. 



Malacca; Griffith (K.D.) 2288/1: Maingay (K.D.) 794: Harvey. 

 Penang; Wallich 4051. Perak ; King's Collector 369. Distrib. Java, 

 Borneo, Sumatra. 



5. Anplectrum anomalum. King and Stapf, n. sp. A woody 

 creeper, 20 to 100 feet long ; young branches as thick as a wheat-straw, 

 terete, covered with stellate, rusty scurf. Leaves coriaceous, o bo vato 



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