1900.] Gr. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 3 



** Longer stamens having the connective at base variously 

 appendaged but notxvith two long bristles in front {equal and ivith 

 two short bristles in one species.) 



Four vertical plates on the ovary ... ... 12. Anplectuum. 



*** Stamens equal or nearly so. 



Connective not at all or very shortly produced at the base, 

 but having 2 tubercles in front and a spur behind ... 13. Mrdinilla. 



Anthers not produced at the base ; connective with tufted 



beard at the base behind but not spurred ... ... 14. Pogonanthera. 



Connective not produced at the base and with no ap- 

 pendages in front, but minutely spurred behind, not 

 bearded ... ... ... ... ... 15. Pachycentria. 



Suborder II. Astronie^. Ovary 4-5-celled ; ovules very many 

 on parietal nearly basal placentas. Seeds very many. Anthers short, 

 opening by slits. Fruit baccate. 



Calyx-tube smooth. Panicles terminal ... ... 16. Astronia. 



Calyx-tube verrucose. Cymes small ... ... 17. Pternandra. 



Suborder III. Memecylej:. Ovary 1-celled ; ovules about 9 on a 

 basal short free-central placenta. Stamens equal j anthers short, open- 

 ing by pores or short slits. Berry 1-seeded. — Leaves usually pinnate- 

 nerved. 



Stamens 8 ... ... ... ... 18. Memecylon. 



1. Otanthera, Blume. 



Slender shrubs. Leaves membranous, entire, 3-5-nerved. tanicles 

 terminal or sub-terminal, lax, cymose, few-flowered. Calyx bearing on 

 its ovoid tube simple or tufted bristles, rarely glabrous, the lobes 5 or 6, 

 equal to or shorter than the tube, deciduous. Petals 5-6, obovate, the 

 apex rouuded or acute. Stamens subequal, 10-12 ; anthers opening 

 by a terminal pore, not beaked, the connective not produced at the 

 base, or slightly biauriculate in front. Ovary half-inferior, with 5 or 6 

 bristles at its apex, 5-6-celled ; style filiform, simple ; ovules numerous 

 on axile placentas. Fruit 5-6-celled, baccate. Seeds small, curved, 

 punctate. Distrib. Species 7 or 8; Malaya, Burma, Philippines, 1ST. 

 Australia. 



Calyx-tube bearing simple bristles ... ... 1. 0. celebica. 



Calyx-tube quite glabrous ... ... ... 2. O. nicobarensis. 



1. Otanthera celebica, Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 56. Leaves 

 narrowly elliptic, shortly acuminate : upper surface sparsely strigose, 

 the nerves glabrous, lower usually glabrous, the main nerves (and 

 sometimes the minor also) with sub-adpressed bristles : length 225-35 

 in., breadth '5-15 in., petioles '2-'4 in. long. Calyx-tube with simple 

 acuminate bristles often bulbous at the base, the teeth setose. Naud., 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XIII, 353 ; Cogn. in DC. Moa. Phan. VII, 342. 



