Kendrickia.~\ LX. MELASTOMACBJS. (C. B. Clarke.) 527 



distichous; at the summits spreading pendent with leaves on all sides. Leaves l-2in. y 

 narrowed at the base, minutely furfuraceous or nearly glabrous, 3-nerved from the 

 base with two additional nerves from the midrib much higher up ; petiole in. Petals 

 | in. " One of the most beautiful of Ceylon plants " (Thwaites). 



6. ALLO1MORPHIA, Blume. 



Shrubs, tall or short. Leaves opposite, long-petioled, large, lanceolate ovate 

 or orbicular, 15-nerved, glabrous or nearly so. Panicles terminal, compound, 

 with small flowers in clustered whorls. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped or campan- 

 ulate, limb of 4 very short lobes. Petals 4, rose or white, small. Stamens 8 T 

 nearly equal ; anthers attenuated at the top with one pore, cells long-produced 

 and diverging at their bases ; connective without appendage. Ovary 3- (rarely 

 4-) celled enclosed by but nearly free from the calyx- tube; style filiform, 

 simple ; ovules very many, placentas axile, 2-fid. Capsule small, dry, urn-shaped 

 or subcylindric, ribbed, opening at the top by 3-4 valves. Seeds very many r 

 narrowly obtrapezoidal. DISTKIB. Species 5 : whereof 4 are from the Malay 

 Peninsula and its attached islands ; 1 from Canton. 



1. A. exig-ua, Blume in Flora, 1831, p. 52 ; leaves lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate not cordate at the very base, pedicels in fruit not more than f in. r 

 fruit ovoid 3-celled prominently 6-ribbed contracted at the top below the- 

 permanent calyx-rim. Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. xv. 310 ; Triana in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xxviii. 74. Melastoma exigua, Jack in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 10; 

 DC. Prodr. iii. 149 ; Wall. Cat. 4048. 



PENANG and MALACCA ; Wallich, Griffith, &c. DISTKIB. Philippines. 



A tall shrub, nearly glabrous. Leaves often 9-10 in. ; petiole 1-3 in. Panicle 

 minutely rusty-pubescent ; bracts -| in., lanceolate or narrow-spathulate. Calyx-tube 

 most minutely hairy. Bipe/rwzY ~ in. broad. 



2. A . umbellulat a, Hook. f. ms. ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii, 

 74; leaves lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate often cordate at the very base, pedi- 

 cels umbellulate in bud in. and more. Kurz For. Fl. i. 506. 



TENASSEEIM or ANDAMANS ; Heifer (Kew Distrib. No. 2260). 



Shrub 10ft. (Heifer); nearly glabrous except the panicle which is minutely pu- 

 bescent and much more lax than that of A. exigua. Flowers larger than those of A, 

 exigua. Calyx-tube in the young flowers funnel-shaped rather than campanulate - r 

 teeth more prominent. Fruit unknown. 



3. A . Griffith!!, Hook. f. MS. ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 74 ; 

 leaves round obtuse cordate at the base, panicle elongate with small distant 

 whorls which are shortly corymbose rather than umbelled or clustered. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Walker, Maingay No. 775. 



Almost stemless ; rootstock woody. Leaves 5-6 in. long and more broad, glabrous 

 or slightly puberulous beneath. Panicle about 12 in., rusty-pubescent. Calyx-tube 

 campanulate, minutely hairy. Fruit unknown. 



4. A. hispida, Kurz in Flora, 1871, 290; petioles thick 5 in. hispid 

 bristly, leaves 8-9 in. ovate 9-ribbed sparsely bristly above more densely beneath 

 especially on the nerves, panicles glabrous or with bristles at the divisions, pedi- 

 cels slender about 5- in. so that the flowers are in subsessile clusters, calyx-tube 

 4-ribbed carrying some long bristles short campanulate with minute teeth, ovary 

 adnate to the calyx near the base only. 



BTJEMA, Martaban ; Dr. Brandis (Kurz). 

 Not seen : the above is copied from Kurz. 



