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* CENTRADENIA rosea. 

 Rose-coloured Centradenia. 



OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Melastomace^e. 



CENTRADENIA. G. Don. Calyx tubo subtetragono-campanulato, 

 libero, limbi quadripartiti laciniis late triangularibus, acutis. Corolla pe- 

 tala 4, calycis fauci inserta, ejusdem laciniis alterna, obovata. Stamina 8, 

 cum petalis inserta, alterna iisdem opposita minora ; antherce elliptic*, uni- 

 porosse, majores connectivo in calcar elongato-cuneatum, minores in appen- 

 diceal glandulaeformem productse. Ovarium liberum, vertice setarum verti- 

 cillo simplici, quadriloculare, loculis multiorulatis. Stylus brevis ; stigma 

 subcapitatum. Capsula calyce vestita quadrilocularis, loculicide quadrivalvis. 



Semina plurima, clavato-elliptica, echinata, umbilico basilari. Suffrutex 



mexicanus ; ramis tetragonis, pilosis, fobis oppositis, altero minimo, altero 

 multo majore, ramum ex axilla explicante, obUmgo-lanceolatis, acutis, valde 

 incequilateris, integerrimis, ciliatis, membranaceis, triplinerviis, racemis axilla- 

 ribus paucifloris. Endlicher Genera, no. 6178. 



C. rosea ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis valde insequilateris, racemis subcorymbosis 

 tenninalibus foliis supremis longioribus, petalis ovario duplo longioribus. 



A pretty greenhouse half shrubby plant, introduced from 

 Mexico by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., Nurserymen of 

 Exeter, by whom it was sent in flower to the Horticultural 

 Society in January last. 



When allowed to blossom quietly in a cool greenhouse it 

 forms a deep green bush, studded all over with gay flesh- 

 coloured stars ; but as the petals easily fall, the plant does 

 not bear travelling well. 



It is a soft-wooded species, growing a foot or so high in 

 sandy peat, and striking readily from cuttings. As far as we 



* Apparently thus called in allusion to the glandslar appendage of 

 the anthers ; from Kivrpov a spur, and adtjv a gland. 



