Oxyspora. | MELASTOMACER®, 505 
OXYSPORA, DC. 
Calyx glabrous, the tube oblong or clavate-bell-shaped, obso- 
letely 4-cornered ; lobes 4, short, simple, or augmented on the back 
with a minute tooth or wing-like appendage. Petals 4. Stamens 8, 
4 of which usually smaller, or rarely only 4, dimorphous, the 4 
larger ones purple, curved, opening by a single apical pore, rather 
long, 2-lobed at the base, the smaller ones yellow ; connective not 
| produced, without appendages, but usually spurred on the back. 
Ovary high up adnate with the angles of the calyx, 4-celled, 
Capsule club-shaped, enclosed in the membranous 8-ribbed calyx, 
4-celled. Seeds numerous, minute, unequally euneate.—Slender, 
erect or somewhat scandent shrubs, with 5- to 7-nerved leaves. 
Flowers rather small, forming terminal often drooping lax panicles. 
Glabrous ; ramifications of panicle 4-c 3 bracts, 
ete., persistent ; connective without appendage or spur - O. cernua. 
Stems and petioles often hairy ; icle-branchings 3 bracts 
very deciduous ; connective on the back side spurred at the 
: : : : : ‘ - O. vagans, 
0. cernua, 
all parts glabrous; leaves from ovate-lanceolate to ovate-oblong, 
shorter or longer petioled, acuminate, variable in size, the smaller 
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winged towards the base ; bracts and bractlets small, but persistent ; 
calyx about 4 lin. long, glabrous, the tube obsoletely ribbed, the 
limb rather broad, 4-lobed, the lobes broadly ovate, acute; petals 
nearly } in. long, oblong, acute; stamens 8, the connective with- 
: out appendages or dorsal spurs; capsule enclosed in the strongly 
5 8-ribbed calyx-tube, about 3 to 4 lin. long, club-shaped, oblong, 
glabrous. 3 
Han.—Chittagong.—FI. Oct.-Nov.; Fr. Feb.-March. 
ALLOMORPHIA, BI. 
Calyx glabrous or sparingly hispid, the tube shortly bell-shaped 
3 or eae secant limb dilated, bluntish 4- or 5-toothed 
3 and persistent. Petals 4 or 5. Stamens 8 or 10, nearly equal ; 
anthers incurved, 2-lobed at the base, opening by a single apical 
pore, the connective not produced and often spurred on the back at 
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glabrous at the apex; style filiform, with a punctiform stigma, 
