506 MELASTOMACER, [ Anerincleistus. 
the base. Ovary ovoid, almost free or only at the base adnate, 
situated on*the bottom of the calyx, 3-4-celled, depressed on the 
. swollen apex, usually ciliolate on the margin ; style filiform, with 
a minute stigma. Capsule small, ovoid, enclosed in the urceolate 
4-8-ribbed calyx-tube, 3-4-valved. Rade linear-club-shaped.— 
Branched shrubs or (scapigerous?) perennials with Sg aoe 
5-9-nerved leaves. Flowers pedicelled, clustered, forming termi 
pomeaet narrow Y DOS 
Cal th h 7 eyrteed and the 9strong 
nerves Sein @ dey eam baete . A. hispida. 
pce a -v ie with ‘a thick win pp bacl ; n p 
glabrous . Peg ee - « « A, umbellulata. 
1. A. iad, Kz.—An evergreen ee the branches and 
the strong 5 in. long petioles covered with tawny, spreading, long, 
stiff bristles ; leaves po ovate, slightly cordate at the base, long- 
petioled, shortly acuminate, 8-9 in. long, almost coriaceous, above 
sparingly, beneath on the veins and especially on the 9 principal 
nerves more densely, covered with long, brownish, stiff bristles ; 
flowers 4-merous, small, on slender 2-3 lin. long pedicels, clustered, 
forming a narrow v glabrous es calyx 4-ribbed, with a few long 
bristles, shortly bell-shaped and spreading somewhat in the manner 
emecylon, Y alabely and shallowly sinuate-toothed ; petals obo- 
vate, almost 2 lin. long ; stamens 8; anthers and connective without 
any appendage ; ovary on the bottom of the calyx free. 
Has.—Martaban. 
2. A, se ase SS H.f.—An evergreen shrub, 10 ft. high, all 
parts glabrous; leaves much resembling those of ‘A exigua, long- 
petioled, savnaioae to jo ar penn sot roo or is at the 
ei acuminate, 6-9 in. long, and transversely 1 
mous, ‘minutely pube is, glal rescent, raceme-like ome in the 
than them, the rachis 4-cornered ; 
bracts deciduous ae nearly 3 lin. long, clavate-bell-shaped, 
minutely i rg ay baciclaly 4-cornered, 4-lobed, the lobes short, 
on the back furnished with a semicordate, blunt, rather thick wing- 
like appendage; petals oblong, acute; stamens 8, unequal, the 2 
led. 
__ Jongest erect (not inflexed) in the bud; ovary 4-ce 
Hazs.—tTenasserim, Mergui Archipelago. 
Calyx widely bell-shaped, bine, the limb 4-lobed, persistent. 
Is — Stamens 8, equal ; anthers aponing by ring 
