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oblong, blunfc, much narrowed to the base, 3-nerved, glabrous on the 

 upper, rusty stellate-hairy on the lower surface like the petioles and 

 inflorescences ; length 1 to 1'5 in. ; breadth 6 to "9 in. ; petiole 2 in. 

 Panicles terminal, sometimes leafy, 3 to 6 in. long, lax, the branches 

 in pairs, divaricate, many-flowered, minutely bracteolate at the divisions. 

 Flowers -35 in. long, the pedicels somewhat longer. Petals oblong, 

 obtuse, waxy, reflexed, pale greenish- white. Stamens 8, equal ; anthers 

 inflexed in aestivation, lanceolate- subulate, the base of the lobes produced 

 into an elongated halbert-shaped process with two erect subulate 

 processes at its broad upper end. Fruit (not quite ripe) ovoid-globose, 

 greenish-yellow, *2 in. in diam. 



Perak ; Ki7ig's Collector 5779, 10357. 



This plant differs from Anplectrtim, as the geuns has hitherto been limited, in 

 having 8 anthers, each of which has a very much produced halbert-shaped basal 

 process, from which two erect hair-like appendages originate at the upper or broad 

 end. The phrnt agrees better with An.pZecfrw?/i than with any other Melaatomaceous 

 genus, but it might possibly be better treated as the basis of a new one. 



13. Medinilla, Gaud. 



Branching shrubs, erect or scandent. Leaves opposite or wborled, 

 rarely alternate, entire, often fleshy, mostly glabrous, usually longitudi- 

 nally 3-9-nerved. Floioers in terminal panicles or lateral cymes, white 

 or rose, with or without bracts, 4- or 5-, rarely 6-merous. Gnkjx-tuhe 

 ovoid or cylindric, limb truncate or obscurely toothed. Stamens twice 

 as many as the petals, equal or nearly equal (rarely unequal) ; anthers 

 opening at the top by one pore ; connective not (or very shortly) pro- 

 duced at the base but having two tubercles in front and a spur behind. 

 Ovary inferior, 4-6-celled, usually glabrous at the apex; style filiform ; 

 ovules very many, placentas axile. Berry crowned by the limb of the 

 calyx. Seeds very many, ovoid or subfalcate, raphe often thickened and 

 excurrent. — Distrib. Species about 100; mainly in Malaya, East 

 Bengal and Ceylon ; a few in the Fiji Archipelago and in the East 

 African islands. 



Flowers 4-merou8 : — 



Leaves alternate ... ... ... ... 1. M. fcandens. 



Leaves in whorls O^^rge) ... ... ... 2, Jf. speciosa. 



Leaves opposite ; — 



Flowers in terminal panicles, anthers dissimilar ... 3. 3A, heterauthera. 

 Flowers in lateral panicles, anthers similar : — 



Anther-cells with tubercles at their bases in front, 

 and a short spur from the connective behind : — 



Flowers 1 in. long ,,, ... ... 4. M. veniiala. 



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