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Ochthocharis. | MELASTOMACE®. 507 
apical pore, the connective not produced at the base, shortly spurred 
behind., Ovary almost free, 4-celled, broadly carved out at the apex, 
4-lobed, the style short, with a punctiform stigma. Capsule 4- 
valved on the carved-out apex, longer than the calyx. Seeds minute, 
obovoid-cuneate.—Shrubs or little trees, with 5-7-nerved leaves. 
Flowers small, usually in axillary or terminal clusters or umbellets. 
Appressed pubescent . . . . . . . . A. Helferi. 
Spreadingly velvety-tomentose  . . . ° ae - A. Griffithii. 
1. A. Helferi, H.£—A shrub, the branchlets terete, covered 
with tawny appressed pubescence; leaves oblong to ovate-lanceo- 
Haxs.—Tenasserim or Andamans (?). 
2. A. Griffithii, H.£—Softly tomentose, the woody branches 
terete, along with the petioles and principal leaf-nerves densely and 
spreadingly rusty-velvety-tomentose ; leaves and inflorescence as in 
A. petiolatus (sie), but the calyx very densely and spreadingly 
irsute.—(Deser. after Triana.) 
Has.—Tenasserim, Mergui Archipelago. 
OCHTHOCHARIS, BI. 
- Calyx glabrous, the tube hemispherically bell-shaped or obovoid, 
terete, without ribs, the limb 5-toothed, persistent. Petals 5. © 
axillary clusters or short cymes, or rarely lax, 
panicles. 
1. 0. Javanica, Bl.—An evergreen low-branched erect shrub, 
about 2 to 3 ft. high, all parts glabrous ; leaves lanceolate to ellipti- 
cally lanceolate, tapering at the base in a petiole } to { in. long, 
acuminate, 2-3 in. long, minutely and distantly bristly serrate, 
