Oxyspora .] 
LIX. MELASTOMACEiE. 
767 
Stamens unequal of 2 kinds. 
Big shrub or tree, glabrous ..... 
Dwarf shrubs, hairy ...... 
Dwarf shrub, velvety; fruit semi-globose 
Stamens similar and equal. 
Tall shrub. 
Leaves ovate, pubescent beneath. 
Fruit goblet-shaped ..... 
Low shrubs. 
Leaves elliptic cordate; petiole hairy 
Leaves glabrous, membranous; flowers sub- 
umbelled, few ...... 
Leaves glabrous membranous; panicle large. 
Capsule obconic ...... 
Capsule fusiform ...... 
Leaves glabrous coriaceous. 
Branches terete; panicle hairy 
Branches 4-angled; panicle. 
Leaves puberulous ...... 
(r) 0. stellulata 
(2) 0. hispida 
(3) 0. microcarpa 
(4) 0. floribunda 
(5) 0. hirta 
(6) 0. collina 
(7) 0. rosea 
( 8 ) 0. Curtisii 
(9) 0. hirticalyx 
(10) 0. acutangula 
(1) O. stellulata King, l.c. 9. 
A large shrub or tree, 5 to 30 ft. tall. Branches scurfy with 
minute scales. Leaves ovate acuminate, base round cordate, 5- to 
7-nerved, scurfy, 5 to 9 in. long, 2-25 to 4-5 in. wide; petioles 1*25 
to 4 in. long. Panicles large, terminal, 8 in. long, 10 in. wide, 
scurfy. Flowers rose pink in umbels of 4 to 6 on the terminal 
branch]ets. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, teeth 4 short, base narrowed 
into the pedicel, -2 in. long. Petals 4, orbicular-ovate, small. 
Stamens 8, 4 linear, purple, 4 half as long, yellow. Capsule clavate, 
opening by 4 truncate valves. Hab. Mountain forests, 2000 ft. 
altitude upwards, a very handsome plant in flower. Perak, Thaiping 
Hills; Gunong Batu Putih (Wray); Gunong Kerbau (Haniff). 
Kelantan, Chaning. Distrib. Sumatra. 
(2) O. hispida Ridl. Journ . Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 57, p. 34. 
Shrub. Branches, panicles and nerves covered with cylindric 
subulate processes. Leaves ovate or orbicular-ovate acuminate, 
base cordate covered thinly above, thickly beneath with small 
processes; nerves 9, more hairy, reticulations and transverse nerves 
conspicuous beneath, 7 in. long, 6 in. wide; petioles 2-5 in. long, 
hairy. Panicles 12 to 18 in. long, lower branches 6 in. long. Flowers 
and pedicels -5 in. long hairy. Calyx goblet-shaped, narrowed into 
pedicel, lobes small, triangular. Petals 4, ovate-acuminate. 
Stamens 8, longer ones -12 in. long, acuminate, shorter ones less 
curved and acuminate, all yellow. Capsule um-shaped *12 in. long; 
lobes ovate acute. Hab. Mountains. Selangor, Mengkuang Lebah 
at 5400 ft. altitude (F. Dennys; Robinson). 
(3) O. microcarpa Ridl. Journ. Roy. , 4 s. Soc. S. Br. 57, p. 34. 
Allomorphia rosea Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mus. iv. 14 (not of Trans. 
Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, iii. 301). 
Much-branched shrub 8 to 9 ft. tall, velvety. Leaves ovate- 
cordate above glabrous, beneath hairy on nerves 7, and nervules, 
