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Capsule glabrous, sub-globular, slightly contracted below the sub-mem- 

 branous truncate mouth, under 1 in. in diam. 



Pbrak; Wray 2483; King's Collector 2061, 2380, 2773; Scortechini 

 50, 425. Penang ; Curtis 2008. 



A species allied to A. exigua, Bl. but with pubescent branches and petioles, 

 shorter and more contracted panicles, a wider, toothless calyx-tube, sub-globular 

 capsules and equal anthers only slightly lobed at the base. In Mr. Wray's field-note 

 on his specimens he remarks that the flowers are white and the leaves dark shining 

 green above and crimson beneath. 



3. Allomorphia a lata, Scortechini Mss. A glabrous shrub, 3 to 6 

 feet high ; the branchlets broadly winged. Leaves ovate or elliptic- 

 ovate, the apex shortly acuminate; the base narrowed into the broadly- 

 winged petiole, 5-nerved ; both surfaces glabrous, the edges shortly 

 bristle-toothed; length 5 to 10 in., breadth 2'5 to 4*5 in., petiole 75 to 

 4 in. Panicle solitary, terminal, often nearly as long as the leaves, lax ; 

 its branches diverging, 4-angled and 4-winged, very minutely rusty 

 lepidote-puberulous. Flowers clustered in small umbels near the ends 

 of the branches, the bases of the umbels sometimes with a ring of 

 bracteoles and minute imperfect flowers. Calyx-tube cylindric-ovoid, the 

 limb expanded and with 4 small, persistent teeth. Petals 4, twice as 

 long as the calyx- teeth but shorter than the filaments. Stamens 8, equal, 

 exserted, much longer than the calyx-tube. Anthers linear-acuminate, 

 longer than the scaberulous filaments, very slightly lobed at the base 

 and almost inappendiculate. Capsules sub-globular, 8-ribbed, glabrous, 

 the mouth truncate, diam. *1 in. 



Perak; Scortechini 236 ; W ray 1327 ; Curtis; King's Collector 572, 

 2047. 



The leaves of the same pair differ, often considerably, in size. 



5. Blastus, Lour. 



Shrubs. Leaves membranous, petiolate, ovate- or oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, entire or sinuate-serrate, 3- to 5-nerved. Flowers small 

 4-merous, ebracteolate. Calyx-tube oblong-campahulate or shortly 

 oblong ; the limb not expanded, truncate, minutely 4-lobed. Petals 4< t 

 ovate, obtuse, glabrous, convolute into a cone before expansion. Stamens 

 4, equal, the filaments thin : anther incurved subulate, opening by a 

 single apical pore ; basal lobes divaricate, the connective inappendicu- 

 late. Ovary adhering to the calyx, 4-celled ; style filiform ; stigma 

 punctiform. Capsule obovoid or sub-globular, slightly 4-grooved ; 

 dehisching slowly by 4 valves. Seeds minute, numerous, irregularly 

 recurved, reniform. Distrib. 3 species in Malaya, China, Cochin China 

 and India. 



