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MELASTOMACEiE. XIII. Ch^etostoma. XIV. Salpinga. XV. Bertolonia. 



Florvers 5-cleft, decandrous. Cajisule prismatic. 



rated ; cymes terminal and axillary, with its branchlets elon- 

 gated, and bearing a row of secund flowers each ; calyx elongated, 

 1 C. pu'ngens (D. C. L c.) shrubby, quite glabrous; leaves tube-formed, lO-furrowed. T2 . S. Native of Brazil, in shady 



humid woods at Porto dos Miranhas. Calyx 6-7 lines long when 

 in fruit. 



sessile, triangular, stiff, pungent, imbricate, quite entire, 3-* 

 nerved ; lateral nerves hardly perspicuous ; flowers terminal, 



Native 



solitary, decandrous ; lobes of calyx spinulose. T2 . S. 



of Brazil, in the province of Minas Geraes, on Serro Frio. 



Rhexia pungens, Mart, et Schrank, mss. Branches slender. 



/S'ecww6?-flowered Salpinga. Shrub I foot. 

 % S. fascicula'ta (Rich. herb, under Julactdhm, ex D. C. 

 1. c.) stems herbaceous, branched, somewhat tetragonal, gla- 



terete. Leaves 2-3 lines long, having the middle nerve thick, brous ; leaves oval, attenuated at the base, acutish, ciliately ser- 



rated, 3-nerved, membranous, bearing a few scattered bristles on 

 the upper surface, pale beneath and hardly muricated ; cymes 



Lobes of calyx lanceolate, pungent ; spinules rising from the top 



of the tube. Petals purple. Stamens yellow, 5 shorter than 



the others; filaments jointed in the middle; connectives not few-flowered, fascicled ; calyx turbinate, 10-furrowed. 0. S. 



drawn out. Perhaps the same as Rhexia armata, Spreng. syst. Native of French Guiana, in the humid shady woods of Ga 



2. p. 308. 



Pungent'calyxed Chaetostoma* Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



* * 



Flowers ^"clefty octandrous. Fruit unknojvn. 



briella. Calyx 5 lines long when in fruit. Flowers in fascicles 

 of 4 or 5. 



Fascicled'Bov^ered Salpinga. PL 1 foot. 



£ C. tetra'stichum (D. C. 1. c.) shrubby, glabrous, erect ; 

 leaves sessile, triquetrous, stiff, acute, keeled, imbricated in 4 

 rows ; flowers terminal, solitary, octandrous ; calyx glabrous, 

 but with a ring of stiff hairs under the teeth. ^ . S. Native 

 of Brazil, on the mountains. Plant 6-8 inches long. Stems 



Calyx campanulate, with 



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3 S. CRISTA^ TA (Rich, herb, under Atdacidhm, ex D. C. 1. c^ 

 stem herbaceous, branched, tetragonal, glabrous ; leaves ovate* 

 oblong, coarsely and ciliately toothed, 3-nerved, glabrous on both 

 surfaces; cymes axillary and terminal; flowers numerous, se- 



cund along the branches of the 



cyme ; calyx turbinate, atte 



of French 



terete, slender. Leaves 2 lines long. 



an oblong tube, and 4 lanceolate teeth. Anthers with short nuated at the base, 8-furrowed. ©. S. Native 



beaks, dilated at the base. 



Var. a, crdssipes (D. C. 1. c.) caudex or root thick and tu- 

 berous, with numerous simple stems rising from it. Rhexia 

 tetr^sticha. Mart, et Schrank, mss. 



Var. j3, fbrilldsum (D. C. 1. c.) root fibrous ; stem branched. 

 Perhaps a proper species. R. scop^ria, Mart. herb. 



Four^ro7ved-\e2Ly^d Cheetostoma. 



Shrub \ to \ 



foot. 



"f* A doubtful species* 



Guiana, where it is called Itoupou* Calyx 4 lines long. 



Crested Salpinga. PI. 1 foot. 



4 S. VARviFLORA (D. C. 1. c.) Stem herbaceous, tetragonal, 

 branched, glabrous ; leaves oval-oblong, attenuated at the base, 

 serrulately-suhciliated, 3-nerved, membranous, smoothish; cymes 

 terminal, 5-8-flowered; flowers on short pedicels, disposed m 

 secund fascicles; calyx 4-toothed, 8-furrowed, oval, hardly 

 turbinate. >2 • S. Native of French Guiana. Calyx 1-3 

 lines long. Capsule trigonal : having the valves thickened and 



3 C. ERicoiDES (D, C. 1. c.) shrubby ; leaves sessile, oppo- somewhat lid-formed at the apex, and bearing a dissepiment m 



site, somewhat decurrent, linear, complicated, ciliated ; flowers the middle of each ; column free. 



terminal, solitary, octandrous ; calyx bearded with bristles at the 

 apex. Tj . S. Native of Brazil. Rhexia ericoides, Spreng. 



ll-Jlorvered Salpinga. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 

 Ctdt. The seeds of the annual species of this genus shot 



uld 



syst.2. p. 310. Perhaps the same as Rhexia ericoides, Spreng. be sown in pots, filled with a mixture of loam and sand, which 

 neue. entd. 1. p. 302. of which the author says that the leaves should be placed in a hot-bed, and kept rather moist; and 

 are almost sessile, in fascicles, quite^ glabrous ; the peduncles when the plants have attained 2 or 3 inches in height, tliey 



should be potted off into separate pots, and again placed into 



corymbose ; and the flowers sessile. 



Heath-like Chaetostoma. Shrub 1 foot. 



^h 



sand 



young 



Cult. This genus is composed of pretty shrubs. For their their seed, or be removed to the stove when in flower, l^^ 

 culture and propagation see Merianiay p. 733. shrubby kind thrive well in the same kind of so 



cuttings of them root readily if planted in a pot of 

 XIV. SALPI'NGA (from (raXTrty^y salpinx ^ a tube; in re-, hand-glass placed over them, in heat. 



ference to the elongated tube of the calyx). Mart. herb. 

 Schrank, mss. D. C. prod. 3. p. 112. — Aulacidium, Rich. herb. 

 Lin. syst. Octo-Decdndriay Monogynia. Calyx turbinately 

 oblong, much elongated, 8-lO-ribbed; ribs separated by deep 

 furrows ; teeth 4-5, broad, short, permanent. Petals 4-5, lan- 

 ceolate, acute, connivent. Stamens 8-10- Style short. Stigma 

 orbicular. Capsule cylindrically trigonal, free within the calyx, 



of Ant. Bertoloni, an 



XV. BERTOLO^NIA (in honour of Ant. ijertoioni, -' 

 Italian botanist, author of Rariorum Italise Plantarum decaoes 



m 3 vols. 8vo. &c.). 

 not of other authors. 



Raddi, mem. bras. add. (1820.) p. 5. b«« 



113, Tribl^nmia, K. 



Mart 



D.C. prod. 8- p 



Lin. syst. 



Man 



campa- 

 short 



.^•valved; valves bearing with nerves in the middle, retuse at nulate tube : and 5 obtuse lobes, which are usually very s oi 



the apex ; central column free. Seeds small, numerous, semi* 



ovate, disposed in rows along the axis ; hylum linear. 

 Brazilian subshrubs or herbs. 



Smooth 



and broad, and sometimes concrete into an entire ^^ 



5, obovate. Stamens rather unequal ; anthers ovate-obtuse, o^ 



Branches from compressed to ing by 1 pore, attenuated at the base, and hardly or ^^^f^^^.^^ 

 s, ovate, acuminated, ciliated, lated. Ovarium not bristly. Capsule trigonal, 3-valved ; v 

 rather crenated, S-5-nerved, membranous, smoothish. Spikes as if they were retusely unclnated at the apex, and cut tr ^^^ 



axillary or terminal, disposed in panicles. Flowers sessile versely under the apex, and therefore exhibiting the ^PP^^^^j. 

 _i 1 V. 1, V, ofalid. Seeds cuneate, triquetrous, scabrous.— Brazdian^^r^^^^ 



ing herbs. Leaves stalked, ovate-cordate, 5-11-nerved, 



. Cymes corymbose, terminal. Flowers white or pup 

 1 B. NYMPH^ivoLiA (Raddi, 1. c.) st^m simple, sj?^\; J. 



lated. 



along the rachis, all on one side. 



• Calyx S-toothed, \0-furrorved. 



4 



IS. secu'nda (Schrank et Mart. mss. ex D. C.l. c.) stemsuf- 



fruticose, from compressed to terete, branched, glabrous ; leaves -w^, ^.«.l/iv/i*o , icavco |.cc.v/i«t^, ^^ .-, - . ^ 



ovate, bluntish at the base, acuminated, 5-nerved, ciliately ser- dulately crenulated, 9-lI-nerved, snioothish, white M" 



ing 



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