1900.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 59 



oblong, blunt, much narrowed to the base, 3-nerved, glabrous on the 

 upper, rusty stellate-hairy on the lower surface like the petioles and 

 inflorescences ; length 1 to 1*5 in. ; breadth 6 to '9 in. ; petiole "2 in. 

 Panicles terminal, sometimes leafy, 3 to 6 in. long, lax, the branches 

 in pairs, divaricate, many-flowered, minutely bracteolate at the divisions. 

 Flowers *35 in. long, the pedicels somewhat longer. Petals oblong, 

 obtuse, waxy, reflexed, pale greenish-white. Stamens 8, equal ; anthers 

 inflexed in aestivation, lanceolate-subulate, the base of the lobes produced 

 into an elongated halbert-shaped process with two erect subulate 

 processes at its broad upper end. Fruit (not quite ripe) ovoid-globose, 

 greenish-yellow, *2 in. in diam. 



Perak ; King's Collector 5779, 10357. 



This plant differs from Anplectrum, as the genus has hitherto been limited, in 

 having 8 anthers, each of which has a very much produced halbert-shaped basal 

 process, from which two erect hair-like appendages originate at the npper or broad 

 end. The plant agrees better with Anplectrum than with any other Melastomaceous 

 genus, but it might possibly be better treated as the basis of a new one. 



13. Medinilla, Gaud. 



Branching shrubs, erect or scaudent. Leaves opposite or whorled, 

 rarely alternate, entire, often fleshy, mostly glabrous, usually longitudi- 

 nally 3-9-nerved. Flowers in terminal panicles or lateral cymes, white 

 or rose, with or without bracts, 4- or 5-, rarely 6-merous. Calyx-tube 

 ovoid or cylindric, limb truncate or obscurely toothed. Stamens twice 

 as many as the petals, equal or nearly equal .(rarely unequal) ; anthers 

 opening at the top by one pore ; connective not (or very shortly) pro- 

 duced at the base but having two tubercles in front and a spur behind. 

 Ovary inferior, 4-6-celled, usually glabrous at the apex ; style filiform ; 

 ovules very many, placentas axile. Berry crowned by the limb of the 

 calyx. Seeds very many, ovoid or subfalcate, raphe often thickened and 

 excurrent.— Distrib. Species about 100; mainly ifl Malaya, East 

 Bengal and Ceylon ; a few in the Fiji Archipelago and in the East 

 African islands. 



Flowers 4-merous :— 



Leaves alternate ... .,, ... ... 1. if. scandens. 



Leaves in whorls (large) ... ... ... 2. M. speciosa. 



Leaves opposite : — 



Flowers in terminal panicles, anthers dissimilar ... 3. M % heter 'anther a. 

 Flowers in lateral panicles, anthers similar : — 



Anther-cells with tubercles at their bases in front, 

 and a short spur from the connective behind : — 



Flowers 1 in. long ,., ... ... 4. M. venusta. 



