68 NEW AND RAEE MALA VAN PLANTS. 



Oxyspora stellaulta, King 

 acutangula, King 



hirticalyx, Ridl. Allomorphia hirticalyx, Ridl. 

 Curtisii, King 



macrophylla, Triana. Anerincleistus floriebundus , Kirg- 

 collina, Ridl. Anerincleistus collinus, Ridl. 

 , microcarpa, Ridl. Allomoraphia rosea, Ridl. Journ. 



Fed. Mai. States Mus. ii. 14. Not of Trans. 

 L ; nn. S~c. 

 , rosea, Ridl. AUomoraphia rosea, Ridl. Trans. Linn. 



Soc. ii. iii. 301. 

 , hispida, Ridl. 



Allomorphia, BJ. includes the shrublets with small incon- 

 spicuous flowers and small elliptic fruits. I excluded from 

 King's species .1. Wrayi under the genus Campimia (a plant 

 allied to Dreissena) in the paper above referred to. leaving the 

 type species .1. exigua, and .1. alata, Scort. with .1. porphy- 

 ranthera, Ridl. A. exigua, .lack. Trans. Linn. Soc.. xxviii, 74, 

 a native of Penang. It is a low shrublet with white flowers 

 and violet stamens, and is the .1. exigua var. minor, King, but 

 it is quite distinct from tin 1 common plant of the South of the 

 Malay Peninsula, a shrub about 6-12 feet tall with greenish 

 flowers in a large panicle. This plant has been confused with 

 it by Clarke, Cogniaux, King, and in fact nearly all botanists 

 since Jack's time. My Allomorphia capillaris seems to he a 

 form of A. exigua, Bl. It is a native of Perak and the Din- 

 dings and differs from the Penang plant in the extremely 

 slender, long branches of the panicle, and is perhaps better 

 classed as a variety of A. exigua. The typical plant is con- 

 fined to Penang where it grows on rocky spots near the water- 

 fall. To this species belongs Wallich's 4048a of his Catalogue 

 (there is no Xo. 4048 in the herbarium) but 4048b seems dis- 

 tinct in its rather larger flowers and quite round based ovate 

 leaves. It was from Herb. Finlayson without locality. Many 

 of Finlayson's plants are from Siani. I have never seen any- 

 thing quite like it from Penang or elsewhere. 



A. porphyranthera, Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc Straits Br. 

 57, p. 39 from Ulu Temengoh resembles .4. exigua, hut the 

 panicle is scurfy and the flowers larger. There remains now 

 the commonest species of all, the exigua of the later botanists 

 but not of Blume. King and Cogniaux give as a synonym 

 Melastoma impuber, Roxb. Flor. Ind. ii, p. 405, but the des- 

 cription hardly fits this plant to which is also given the Moluc- 

 cas as a habitat. 



In Griffith's Xotulae is a description of a Sonerila bullata 

 which Cogniaux makes a species of AUomorpltia under the 

 name A. bullata. The description is very incomplete and 

 though some parts of it would fit the common plant which he 

 must have been familiar with and indeed collected, I do not 

 think it can have been what he intended. 



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