552 LX. MELASTOMACEJJ. (C. B, Clarke.) [Pternandra. 



20. K.IBESSIA, DC. 



Large shrubs, glabrous or minutely pubescent. Leaves opposite, short-peti- 

 oled, ovate or oblong, entire, coriaceous, 3-nerved. Flowers axillary, long-pedun- 

 cled, solitary or clustered, large (except in K.tuberculata); peduncles 1-3-flowered, 

 pedicels 2-bracteolate in the middle. Calyx-tube campanulate or hemispheric, 

 covered with elongated scales or simple tubercles ; limb 4-lobed and persis- 

 tent or calyptriform and deciduous. Petals 4, ovate or oblong. Stamens 8, 

 equal, filaments short, subulate j anthers short, very thick, opening by slits, 

 connective at the base naked or shortly spurred. Ovary inferior, 4-celled, apex 

 glabrous depressed ; style filiform, stigma clavate ; ovules very many, placentas 

 sub-basal. Berry subglobose, covered with scales or tubercles, or in K. tuber- 

 ciilata ultimately nearly smooth. Seeds cuneate-obovoid, angular. DISTRIB. 

 Species 14 ; confined to Malaya, from Pinang to Borneo. 



1. XL. simplex, Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 253 ; leaves narrowed at 

 the base, calyx-tube with oblong-linear scales those towards the top of the tube 

 about \ in. persistent in the fruit, calyx-limb calyptriform, fruit in. broad. 

 Blume Mus. Bot. i. 9 ; Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 152. K. cupularis, 

 Dene, in Deless. Ic. Sel. v. t. 5 and in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. v. 317. Pternandra 

 echinata, Jack in Mai. Misc. ii. Addenda prefixed to the paper 3 ; Wall. Cat. 

 4078, for the most part. 



PINANG and MALACCA ; Wallich, Griffith, &c. SINGAPORE ; T. Anderson. Dis- 

 TKIB. Borneo, Philippines. 



Young branches obscurely quadrangular, rusty puberulous. Leaves 2-3 in., oblong 

 or elliptic, acuminate, when young pubescent beneath, when mature glabrescent or 

 with rusty pubescence on the nerves; petiole | J in. Peduncles 1- (less often 3-) 

 flowered ; bracts nearly in., oblong, persistent. Scales of the calyx-tube minutely 

 rusty pubescent. 



2. XL. pubescens, Dene, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. v. 31 8 ; leaves ob- 

 long base somewhat rounded or subcordate, 1 calyx-tube with triangular short 

 subulate scales, those towards the top of the tube scarcely in., limb 4-lobed 

 persistent, fruit in. broad. Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 152. Pter- 

 nandra echinata, Wall. Cat. 4078, letter a only. 



PINANG, Wallich. 



Young branches obscurely quadrangular, rusty puberulous. Leaves 2-3 in., oblong 

 or elliptic, acuminate, when mature with minute rusty pubescence beneath, nerves with 

 longer pubescence ; petiole hardly in. Scales of the calyx-tube minutely rusty- 

 pubescent. Apex of the ovary in fruit concave, with 16 radiating lines. Very near 

 the preceding species. t 



3. XL. acuminata, Dene, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. v. 316 ; leaves nar- 

 rowed or rounded at the base nearly glabrous, calyx-tube with triangular 

 scales those towards the top of the tube linear elongate, limb calyptriform acu- 

 minated into a linear point. Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 153. 



SINGAPORE ; Walker, Maingay No. 804. 



Young branchlets and peduncles minutely rusty pubescent. Leaves 2-3 in., oblong 

 or elliptic, acuminate, when mature glabrous or scarcely rusty pubescent on the nerves 

 beneath ; petiole scarcely ^ in. Bracts of the buds ^ in., ovate. 



