508 MELASTOMACER. [ Anplectrum, 
glabrous, 3-nerved, with 2 faint i ntrapaseia ones, the transverse 
parallel veins little visible ; flowers very small, rose-coloured, on 
to 1 hn. long bracteolate radiocls. forming short glabrous cymes in 
the axils of the leaves; bracts lanceolate, minute; calyx about a 
line long, glabrous, obsoletely ribbed; petals about as long as the 
calyx ; capsules globular, the size of a small pea, enclosed in the 
smooth calyx. 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
ANPLECTROUM, A. Gray. 
Caly ieee ovoid-globular, the limb truncate or obsoletely 4-. 
deste’, the teeth alternating with as many punctiform teethlets. 
Petals 4. pianshs 8, very unequal ; anthers alternately imperfect, 
the larger ones ovoid or oblong, opening by a single apical pore, the 
connective not produced, not appendaged, or 2-lamellate at the base 
or shortly spurred behind. Ovary free above, 4-celled, crowned 
with 4 crests; style filiform, with a punetiform stioma. Berry 
almost globose, crowned by the calyx-limb. Seeds numerous, 
wedge-shaped, angular.—Scandent shrubs, with 3-to 7-nerved leav' es. 
— small, in terminal and axillary panicles. 
. A. cyanocarpa, Triana.—An evergreen slender, half-scan-. 
as ‘shrub, the branchlets and pe ee above bristly-hairy, other- 
_ wise elabrous ; leaves on a 2 to 4 lin. long petiole, ovate-oblong 
to ovate, sometimes slightly Bes ak at the base, 3-4 in. long, blunt- 
ish acuminate or apiculate, entire, thin chartaceous, glossy aboye, 
glabrous, or while young sparingly bristly hairy on the nerves 
beneath, 3-nerved, with 2 intramarginal nerves, transversely and 
one or oe agp gi ia filament , flat, terminating in 
a hastate-triangular at the apex usually 2-cleft membrane excurrent 
at the inner base into a bristle longer than the filament itself; 
ala ovoid, quite smooth, crowned by the narrow truncate calyx- 
 _Has.—In the tropical forests of Tonkyeghat, Martaban; Tenasserim. 
eee Jack. 
usu th, hemispherical, the limb deciduous, ia 
=~ less di ms distinctly 4 toothed or iF salypoate and circum 
