32 A SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO TEMENGOH. 
Common on the Temengoh river banks. This tree 
looks very different from the large leaved lowland form, 
but I hardly think it is more than a form. 
E.. pseudoformosa, King. Lenggong. 
E. Curtisii, King. In fruit but apparently this species, Ulu 
Temengoh. 
Barringtonia spicata, Bl. Banks of the river at Ulu Te- 
mengoh and Kuala Temengoh. 
MELASTOMACEAE. 
Melastoma malabathricum, L. Common, Temengoh. ~ 
OXYSPORA AND ALLOMORPHIA. 
These two genera are undoubtedly closely allied, 
though the original types of the two viz. Oxyspora 
paniculata, De C. and Allomorphia exigua, Bl. are 
plants of very different appearance. Cogniaux in his 
monograph otf Melastomaceae (Decandolle’s Prodromus 
continuation) separates the two genera according to the 
anthers whether they are all similar as in Allomorphia 
or dissimilar (Oxyspora). King in the Materials writes 
that this character breaks down in two species which 
he describes, O. acutangula, and O. Curtisaa and mod- 
ifies the general character of Oxyspora, which depends 
he says on its open paniculate inflorescence and long 
double fusiform boldly ridged capsules, white Allomor- 
phia is characterised by its shortly branched panicles 
on the ultimate branchlets of which the flowers are 
collected in pseudo-glomeruli while the capsules are 
not much longer than broad and are often urn-shaped. 
This arrangement seems to me to make matters 
worse, @.g., Allomorphia captllaris has the panicles 
diffuse and open, with the stamens and fruit of Allo- 
morphia, while A. Curtisiz has eyerything required for 
the genus Allomophia as originally laid down, except 
Jour. Straits Branch 
