502 MELASTOMACER. [ Otanthera. 
— = ut capsule free on the bottom of the _— pant ter- 
. Allomorph 
As Sor but flowers i in axillary ¢ clus + Anerincleistus. 
RA < Sader or only with its angles adnate to the 
yn yx, 
mens aa ly equal or the alternating ones re- 
uced to Me Re -shaped staminodes ; anthers 
pe ly rec 
Stamens es in the deep grooves between the ovary and soe 
enero at base:in front with 2 bristles, lobes, 0 or emthe reles. 
i by 4 crests; panicle terminal - Anplectrum. 
*K OK Mathers opening by longitudinal slits. 
Ovary 4-celled ; seeds numerous, minute ; a minute . « Pternandra. 
vary X-celled:; seeds solitary; embryo larg - Memecylon. 
OTANTHERA, Bl. 
Calyx hirsute or pedi with tufted stiff hairs, the tube ovoid ; 
-lobes 5 or 6, sees Eree with or without accessory teeth or scales. 
tamens twi as thane as petals, all equal and conform ; anthers 
oblong-linear or linear-subulate, opening by a single apical pore, 
the connective not prolonged beyo nd the anthers, but at the base 
bahecy 2 ina short, 2-lobed or 2-spurred appendage nator upon the 
y half-inferior, 5-6-celled, crowned with bristles ; 
Be ‘thickened upwards, the stigma truncate. Fruiting calyx 
ahewstty the berry 5-or 6-celled, more or less pulpy, irregularly 
rupturi Seeds minute, cochleate.—More or less strigose herbs 
with 3- to T-nerved leaves. Flowers in terminal trichotomous 
cymes or panicles. 
1. 0. bracteata, cb — An evergreen shrubby plant, the 
branches 4-cornered and more or less covered with pale-coloured 
or reddish hairs or pes ‘. pot from lanceolate to elliptically 
ovate, on an appressed bristly petiole 2-4 lin. long, acuminate, entire, 
membranous, usually 5-nerved, on both sides rough from appressed 
; airs, 3 to 5 in. long ; flowers rather conspicuous, white 
or pink, on 1-2 lin. long, densely appressed, hispid pedicels, forming 
a poor terminal very shortly rae, or almost sessile cyme usu- 
€0 cael wi 
long, pale or purplish bristles thickened at ‘the base ; lobes 5 or 6, 
ar, hardly as long as the tube, long and bristly ciliate, alternat- 
ing with as many minute, obtuse, stellately-fringed seales ; petals 6-8 
lin. long, obovate, terminating in a tuft of long stiff hairs; 0 
Sor 5-celled, the conical apex densely appressed hirsute ; fruiting 
> ealyx globular, with a — free, truncate tube, bristly, the 
as as a a, with thick fleshy placentas 
-Not unfrequent in Tenasserim from Moulmein down to Mergui.—Fl. 
