58 G. King — Maienah fm- a Flora of the Malayan Peninmhi. [No. 1, 
long as the leaves) and terminal (niucU longer tlian tlie leaves), slender, 
Bpreiidiiig, lax, rather few-flowered, with a email, blunt, oblong, decidaons 
braot under each biaticli, finely rufoua stellate-pubeecont, Fhieers 
about '4 in* long (including the Btamens). Calyx-tnhe ovoid io 
globnlar-ovoid , deueely rnfons-pubernloos when young, glabrouB when 
old,, the raoufh eliglitly expanded and with very small teeth. Fetals 
ovate, acute, glabrous. Anthers ; the foui' large much car%'ed and sub- 
aoute ; the rndtmentary linear, acumiuate, Capsule globose-obovoid, 
glabrous, *15 in. in dinni, Naud. in Ann, Sc. Kafc. Ser. 3, XV» 303 ; 
Triana iu Trans. Linn. Soc. XXYUI, 303 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook, fll, 
Fl. Br. Ind. II, 545; Cogn, ia DC. Mon. Phau. YII» 564. Melastoma 
petiolare, Wall. Cat. 4053. 
Iu all the pi'OTinces except the Andaman and Nicobar Islands ; 
not unoommon- Distkib. Sumatra, Borneo. 
4. Anplectrum iHfARiciTDM, THaua in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVJII, 
84 (in part), tab. VII, (Ig. D0&. Bcandent, to 20 or 30 feet; young 
bi'anclies obscurely quadrangnlar, and like the petioles, nerves of the 
leaves on both stirfaces, and tlie inflorescence, densely covered with 
tawny, stellate scales, not annialate at the nodes. Leaves lanceolate, 
acute or sub-acute, the base minutely cordate, 5-nerved, the marginal 
pair slender; both surf aces, but eepeeially the lower, with glnndular- 
pnnctate scales between tf»c i»erves and veins ; length 2 to 3 in, ; 
breadth '6 fo M in, ; petiole '15 to "25 in. Prtm'c/r? solitary, totminal, 
pyramidal, several times as long as the leaves, the branchleta divaricate, 
each with two ovate-lanceolate, ciliate, furfuraceous, deciduous bracts at 
its base and tlu^e ilowej-K in a cyme at, tlie apes. Flowers '4 in. long, 
on short pedicels. Petals oblong, acute, Cahjx-ttthc narrowly obovoid, 
carapanulafce, truncate, densely fnrfucaceous stellate'tomeDtose. Anlhers 
B ; the 4 Inrge thick and much curved, obtuse ; tlie smaller narrow. 
OajJetj?e globose -obovoid, with a narrow, everted rim, length 15 to '2 
in. C, B. Clarke in Hook, fil, Fb Br. lud. 11, 546 ; Cogn. in DO. Mon. 
Phan. YII, 667. Melashma divaricalum, Willd. Spec. PI. 11, 596; DC. 
Prodr. Ill, 150, M, polyanthnm, Bentb, in Wall. Cat. 1051. Disso- 
chssla divaricata and D. pepcricarpa, Naud. Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3^ XY, 
70 and 71, D. aiiceps^ Naud. I.e. 70. D. pakmhanicaj Miq. PI. Ind, 
Bat. Snppl. 317. 
Malacca; QnjDith (K.D.) 2288/1: Maiugay (K.D.J 794: Eaney, 
Penano ; WalUch 4051. Pehak ; King's Collector 369. Distrib, Java, 
Borneo, Sumatra. 
5. ANPLECTRtFM ANOMALUM, King and Stapf, n. ep, A woody 
creeper, 20 to 100 feet long ; young branches as thick as a wheat-straw, 
terete, covered with stellate, rtiaty scurf. Lmm coriaceous, obovate or 
