Plate 2351. 



DACTYLOCLADUS STENOSTACHYS, OHv. 



Melastomace-e. Tribe Memecyle.e, 



Dactylocladus, Oliver (nov. gen.). Calyx late campanulatus, breviter 

 i-o-fidus, dentibus deltoideis sestivatione valvatis ; tubus supra ovarium 

 senii-inferura breviter productus, disco hirtello adnato. Fetala perigyna, 

 libera, unguiculata, sub sinubus calycinis inserta calycem leviter 

 superantia, caduca ] lamina semiorbicularis extus tomentella ; unguis q. 

 lamina paullo brevier. Stamina 5 petalis opposita, perigyna, calyci 

 ^equilonga ; filamenta coniplanata ; anthera bilocularis, fere hemi- 

 spha?rica carnosula, dorso rotundata, margine pollinifera, jestivatione 

 inflexa. Ovarium ^-|-inferum, placentis 4 (3-5) intrusis sed vix 

 coaJitis ] ovula in loculis incompletis sa:;pius 3 a basi cavitatis adsceii- 

 aentia ; stylus 1 tomentellus, niox exsertus ; stigma capitatum. Caj)- 

 ^'a apice libera loculicide 4-5-vaIvis, valvis deltoideis acuminatis 

 apice siepe (ob stylum imperfecte fissum) coalitis ; semina albida 

 erecta oblonga ; testa laxe spongioso-cellulosa alata ; nucleus oblongus, 

 exalbuminosus ; embryo rectus, raclicuJa subteres cotyledonibus com- 

 planatis oequilonga v. paullo longior. — Arbor v. arbuscula inflores- 

 centia piiheritla excepla glabra; internodia snj)eriora stepius plus 

 "^^mus i-angulata. Folia coriacea, op])osita, oblonyo- v. ohocato- 

 elnptica^ ohtusa v. late actttata, i7itegra^ nervis primariis venisqi(e 

 ^^iicuris ; petioli breves, Y\ov(i^ parvi in racemos terminales spiciform^s 

 srppitis 3~5-nati7n panicidatos dispositi, pedicelli brerissimi ; bractecr, 

 ''^^nvtissima^, caduca;. 



^ D. stenostachys, Oliver {.<?p, nnica). Internodia superiora siepius 

 --4 poll, longa. Folia 2-3 poll, longa, 1-U poll. lata ; petiolus ^ poll. 



i_^^^n ^^ifl^^^^^^^^'^^li<^ pedunculata ; racemi 1-3 poll, longi. Flares 

 10 poll, longi. Capsula ^-i poll, longa. 



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Hab Borneo : Sarawak, Beccari (3272) : Sibu. on the Rejan 

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-l^lie affiiuty of this interesting plant is no doubt with the genus 

 ^^mandra, first desciibed l>y Thwaites, from Ceylou, to which 



■Luigay added a species from Mahicca, and Beccari three from 

 i '[5!^' *^f latter described by M. Baillon ('Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris,' 

 "en""'- ~'^^' ^'^^*^^ ^>f^ distinguishes from the type under the sub- 

 not ^^^r ^^^^' ^'"^^^ndra, their ovules being geminate in each cell, 

 annn 1 *''^^T *^ ^" ^- ^^y^^nica. Axiunndra was left as 'genus 

 PIpT ""'^^^ Lythrarieie by Bentham and Hooker in 'Gen. 



thpA *'''"'•' ^^- ^'"Il<»n, however, points out {I.e.) its relationship to 

 American genus Moiirina in the ajithers iiiflexed in .-estivation, 



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