1900. ] G. Klog — Materials for a Flora of the Mahijan Pe7iinmlii. U 
Tapper surface very sparsely strigoso (glabroES in old leaves) ; tlie 1 >wer 
glabrous, pale, the tranavers© nerves prominent ; longtli 4 5 to 11 iu. ; 
breadth 1*5 to 5 in. ; petiole '75 to 4 in. Panicle usiiaHy aoHtary, ter- 
minal, often longer tlian the leaves, lax, minutely rusty-pubeacent ; bracts 
lanceolate or oblong, deciduous; the Jiowers 'i iu, long, shortly pedicel- 
latCj in stalked nrabels on the ultimate brarichlets or in subseasile 
fascioleg. Calyx rusfcy-pubernlone, with 3 or 4 short broad teeth. 
Stametis (i or 8, alternately lougaiid short, sagittate at the base and with 
a sraall linear appendage behiud. Petals 3 or 4, romy, Capstde less than 
•1 in. long, boldly G-ribbed. Naud. in A»n, So, Nat. Ser. 3, XV, 310 ; 
Trianain Trnna. Linii. Soc. XXV III, 74 ; C, B. Clarke in Hook, fit. Fl. 
Br. Ind, II, 527 ; Cogii. in DC. Mon. Pliau. YIl, 464. Mdnstanm e.vigm\ 
Jack in Trana. Liim, Seo. XIV, 10, tab. 1, fig. 2; DO. Prod. Ill, 149. 
M. imptther, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. 11, 405 ; Waif. Cat. 4048. 
Malacca; Ori^th 22G3 & 4 (K.D.) ; Maingay 776 (K.D.); ff^r&ey, 
PJ3NANQ ; Wallich 4048 ; Ciirtis 399 ; Gri^ih ; King, Perak ; SGortechiui 
227, 383; Wray 160; King's Oolhrtor 450, 2302, 3106. Disiiiifi. 
Sumatra ; F'orhes 306*2. 
Tliiere ia some variety iu thia plant an regards size and infloreBoenco. A Blcndor 
form, which never excieeda 2 or 3 feet in height and wliioli liaa emaller lenvfa I hftii tho 
typo^aeema worthy of sopaoition m a variety. Ituppeara to bavo been so reeoy-nisod 
by Wallich who, iu distributing hia Hei biirium, ilifltiiignished it by tlio letter <i. A 
leas diafcinotly marked form is one in which the flowers are grouped on tho brauciios 
of the iidloreaoeiice iu deose almost fiessile fasoioles. 
Var. vnnor. King. Leaves narrowly elliptic, tapering mnoh to ba.'^B 
imd apex, 2 to 4 5 in, long ; intlorescunco .slender, few-flowei'od, very lax : 
height only 2 to 3 feet. 
Pknang ; iriif^icft, Cat. 4048 « ; Curtiig 73. Peiiaiv ; Scoi'techini 
1702 ; IVratj 161, 3414; King's Cotlecfor 2302, 
2. ALLOMORPaiA Wbayi, King, n. ap, A ahnib, 2 to 4 feet high ; 
branches and petioles with flexuose, spreading, ferniginous hairs. 
Leaves 7-nerved, bi-oadly ovate to rotund*ovate, the npex shortly and 
abruptly acuminate, the base nan-owed, the edges obscurely and minutely 
bristle -toothed : upper sni'face very sparsely strigose or glabrous, often 
with minute, brown scaks on the chief nerves ; lower glabrous ; 
length 5 to 9 in., breadth 3-5 to 5-5 in. ; pctiolo 2 25 to 275 in. Panicles 
solitary, axillary^ slightly longer than the petioles but much shorter 
than the leaves, glabrous or rusty pubcrulou.s towards the extremities : 
the branches shoit, spreaditig, rather conden.<ied when young, few 
flowered, Oahjx-in^he widely canipanuhite, minutely rusty- puberulous or 
almost glttbrona, without ribs; the month truncate, slighly waved bat 
not toothed. FetaU 4. Sta7nens 8, eqnal, the anthers lobed but not 
sagittate at the base, the back with a alight tsupra-basal ai>peiulagc. 
