A SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO TEMENGOH. -S33 
the capsule which is long and ribbed like that of 
Oxyspora. The only really tangible character for Oxy- 
spora is the dissimilarity of the anthers, which is 
usually accompanied by the elongate capsule. But for 
this it would be better to amalgamate the two genera. 
Under Anerincleistus Dr. King placed two plants with 
large spreading terminal panicles, though the genus is 
usually diagnosed by its possessing axillary inflores- 
cences of small size. Ofone of these Anerinclerstus flori- 
bundus, King., a common plant on the Taiping hills, 
I sent many years ago a specimen in to M. Cogniaux 
who named it Oxyspora macrophylla Triana, originally 
described from Sumatra, and it certainly possesses all the 
characters of an Oxyspora. This genus Anerinclerstus 
-also as laid down in King’s Materials and perhaps too 
in Cogniaux contains a mixture of very dissimilar 
plants, and these had better be rearranged also. 
OXYSPORA. 
The original characteristic of the genus Oxyspora 
was the dissimilarity in the eight stamens, 4 of which 
were longer and of different shape from the other four, 
but as there is also another distinctive character in the 
original species viz, the fusiform capsule, King seems 
to have disregarded the inequality of the stamens and 
used the latter character only, adding to the normal 
O. steilulata, O. acutangula and O. Curtisz both of which 
have similar stamens. Baillon combined the genus with 
Allomorphia. 
I would propose to retain for Oxyspora all the 
species with terminal panicles and eight stamens of 
which four are distinctly dissimilar from the others. 
The following would then be the species of this genus 
as known to me:— 
R. A. Soc., No. 57, 1910. 
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