76 S. Kurz — Contributions towards a [No. 2, 



Hab. Common in shrubbery and waste places, along river-sides, in 

 savannahs, along borders o£ forests, &c., all over Burma down to Tenasse- 

 rim. — Fl. Fr. oo . 



I have no clear idea as to the differences between the various species 

 of this alliance. Bentham reduces all the 40 species enumerated by 

 Naudin (in Ann. d. sc. 1. c. 283 — 293) as " species magis ad M. Malaha- 

 thricum vergentes ideoque difficilius distinguendae," while Triana keeps 

 most of them distinct without assigning diagnostic characters to them. 



N. B. M. imhricatum, Wall, (nomen nudum) Trian. in Linn. Trans. 

 XXVIII. 60 = M. fasciculare, Naud. in Ann. d. sc. nat. 3 ser. XIII. 288, 

 from Tenasserim or the Andamans (Helf. 2243), is unknown to me. 



2. M. NORMALE, Don. Prod. Nep. 220 ; DC. Prod. II. 145 ; Naud. 

 in Ann. d. sc. nat. 3 ser. XIII. 289 ; Triana in Linn. Trans. XXVIII. 60. 

 {N. Napalense, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 707.) 



Hab. Frequent in the drier hill-forests of Martaban, up to 5000 ft. 

 elevation ; Ava, Khakyen-hills. 



3. M. HouTTEAN^UM, Naud. in Ann. d. sc. nat. 3 ser. XIII. 291. 

 Hab. Here and there in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of 



the Pegu Yomah ; also Andamans (teste Triana) ; Martaban, from Moul- 

 mein southwards (Brandis -, Helf. 2241). — Fl. March. 



Oxyspora, DC. 

 Conspectus of Species. 

 Glabrous ; branchings of panicle 4-cornered or 4-winged ; bracts &c. persistent ; con- 

 nective without any appendage, 0. cernua. 



Stems and petioles often hairy ; panicle-branchings terete ; bracts very deciduous ; con- 

 nective spurred at the base of the back, 0. vagans. 



1. 0. CERNUA, Hf. and Th. ap. Triana in Linn. Trans. XXVIII. 

 73. {Melastoma cernua, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. II. 404 ; Allozygia cernua, Naud. 

 in Ann. d. sc. nat. 3 ser. XV. 309. t. 15. f. 5.) 



Hab. Chittagong (Eoxb.). — Fl. Oct., Nov. ; Fr. Febr., March. 



AUomorphia, Bl. 



Conspectus of Species. 

 Habit of A. Griffithii, the stems, petioles and the 9 strong ribs beneath densely covered 



with long brownish bristles ; calyx-teeth minute, A, hispida. 



Quite glabrous ; leaves 5 -ribbed ; calyx-lobes with a thick wing-like aj)pendage on the 



back, A. umbellulata. 



1. A. HISPIDA, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1871. 53. 

 Hab. Upper Tenasserim (Brandis). 



2. A. UMBELLULATA, Hf . in Linn. Trans. XXVIII. 74. 



Hab. Tenasserim, Mergui Archipelago, on the island St. Mathia 

 (Helf. 2660). 



