MELASTOMACE^. XXXI. Lasiandra. 



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Pleroma ochypetala, D. Don, 1. c. Bracteas ovate, deciduous, 



Petals large, obovate, retuse, nearly obcordate, with a 

 mucrone in the recess. Ovarium free. 



bristly. 



setae beneath ; thyrse terminal ; bracteas 2, rather villous, in- 

 volving the flower in its young state ; calyx bristly, with an ovate 

 tube, and 5 ovate, ciliated, longer lobes ; filaments hispid ; 

 anthers long, nearly similar. V^ • ^* Native of Brazil. Rh^xia 



Sharp-petalled LdLsisuxdra. Shrub 10-12 feet. 



8 L. KunthiaVa (D. C. 1. c.) branches tetragonal, and are macrochiton, Mart. mss. Petals ciliated when young. Anthers 

 as well as the petioles clothed with adpressed villi ; leaves 



tiolate, oblong, acute, 5-nerved, 



s pe- 



quite entire, scabrous above 

 from little bristles, but white from adpressed silky villi beneath ; 

 pedicels hispid, axillary, l-flowered, and terminal ; tube of calyx 



campanulate, beset with stiflf^ bristles, but with the lobes deci- 

 duous: 



falcate, beaked. 



LonS'Coated Lasiandra. Shrub 3 to 3 feet. 



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Calyx clothed with adpressed^ rather silky villi. 



filaments and style hispid. 

 Petals very blunt. 



Ovarium bristly at the apex, rather longer 

 than the tube of the calyx. 

 Kunth's Lasiandra. 



14 L. Thereminia^na (D. C. 1. c.) shrubby ; branches terete, 

 ^2 . S. Native of Brazil. clothed with adpressed short villi; leaves petiolate, ovate, acute, 



Bracteas large, deciduous. 

 Shrub 4 to 8 feet. 



9 L. ^'mula (D. C. 1. c.) shrubby ; branches, petioles, and 

 peduncles clothed with hairy tomentum ; leaves petiolate, ovate, 

 mucronately acute, 5-nerved, quite entire, scabrous from bristles 



quite entire, 7-nerved, clothed with canesccnt villi beneath, vil- 

 lous above ; flowers solitary, terminal ; bracteas 2, ovate ; villi 

 on calyx silky and adpressed ; calycine lobes longer than the 

 tube, which is very villous ; filaments villous ; appendages of 

 the connectives of the anthers bearing scattered glands. 

 Native of Brazil. Very like Chcetogdstra miiricafa, but differs 



^2.8. 



above, but densely clothed with adpressed villi beneath ; pedicels in the longer petiolate 7-nerved leaves; the flowers are also 



larger, and bibracteatc and the anthers shorter. 

 Thereminian Lasiandra. Shrub 8 to 10 feet. 

 15 L. semideca'ndra (Schrank et Mart. mss. ex D. C. 1. c.) 

 S. Native of Brazil, in the shrubby ; branches tetragonal, villous ; leaves petiolate, ovate, 



nsing from the upper axils of the leaves, and solitary at the tops 

 of the branches, disposed in something like racemes; calyx 

 bristly, with a globose tube ; and 5 lanceolate deciduous lobes, 

 ^nich are glabrous inside. Tj 



province of Minas Geraes. Meriania se'mula, Schrank and 

 Mart. mss. 



hairy 



Ovarium bristly at the apex. 

 Very like Z. hygrophila* 

 Emidciis Lasiandra. Shrub 4 to 6 ieet. 

 10 L. HYGROPHILA (D. C. 1. c.) shrubby ; branches terete, 

 bispid from bristles; leaves sessile, ovate, acute, 5-7-nerved, 

 cuiately serrated, rough from stiff bristles above, but hairy be- 



of St. 



^fath; pedicels axillary, l-flowered, disposed in racemose cymes; 

 calyx bristly : w ith 5 subulate lobes, which are a little longer than 

 jne tube, T2 • S. Native of Brazil, in the province 

 ^aul, in bogs in w^oods. Rhexia hygrophila. Mart, mss. Leaves 

 Jardly an inch long and 8-9 lines broad. Like Z. Tonnesii, but 

 (liffers in the anthers being shorter, and in the filaments bearing 



atewsubglandular hairs. - 

 Waier-lovin/T Lasiandra. 



11 L. ^ 



acute, quite entire, 5-nerved, rough from stift' bristles above, 

 Filaments and style but villous beneath ; flowers solitary, terminal, and axillary, 



pedicellate ; bracteas bristly, deciduous, involving the flower- 

 bud before they fall off*; calyx clothed with silky villi: with 5 

 acuminated lobes, which are glabrous inside and longer than the 

 tube. Tj • S« Native of Brazil, in the province of Minas 

 Geraes, on the mountains. Rhexia semidecandra, Schrank et 

 Mart. mss. Bracteas silvery. The rest as in Z. hygrophila. 

 Flowers as in Z. Fontenesiana, 'I'he 5 alternate stamens larger; 

 anthers falcate: having their connectives knotted at the base, and 

 twice the length of the anthers. Style pilose. 

 Semidccandrous Lasiandra. Shrub 4 to G feet. 

 16 L. Candollea^na (D. C. 1. c.) shrubby ; branches nearly 



Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



terete, rough from small adpressed bristles ; leaves petiolate, 

 oval-oblong, attenuated at both ends, triple-nerved, membranous, 



Uund 



TiBOucHiNoiDES (D. C. 1. c.) shrubby ; branches quite entire, clothed with adpressed bristles on both surfaces; 



pedicels axillary, solitary, tern ; bracteas oval, oblong, acute, 

 deciduous ; calyx white from adpressed villi, having its lobes 

 longer than its tube, which is ovate; style and filaments hispid. 

 Tj . S. Native of Brazil, at Rio Grande de Behnonte. D. C. 

 Coll. 1. f. 6. Rhexia Candolleana, Mart. herb. Allied to Z. Fan- 

 tanesiana^ but diflfers in the lateral nerves of the leaves being 

 simple, not bifid. Petals violaceous, ciliated when young. 



"luntly tetragonal, beset with bristly pili ; leaves petiolate, el- 

 'ptic-oblong, mucronate, quite entire, 3-ncrved, bearing a few 

 pattered bristles above, but clothed with villous tomentum 

 ^neath ; flowers terminal, bracteate, usually twin ; calyx 

 Jfistly, with 5, ovate, acute, ciliated lobes. Tj . S. Native of 

 razil, in the province of St. Paul, in marshes. Rhexia tibou- 

 ^ninoides, Schrank and Mart. mss. Leaves an inch lonsr and 

 ^-6 lines broad. 



^J^nthers linear, falcate, acuminated by the beaks, a little longer 

 "an the connectives, which are tumid at the base. Stamens 

 xserted, rather unequal, glabrous, and bearing a few glands at 

 «e very base. 



^Pidka. 



Calyx ovate, red ; lobes 5. Petals large. 



Habit of Tihouchma of Aublet or Chcetogastra 



Shrub 6 to 8 feet. 



3. 



from 



129.) 



shrubby, much 

 adpressed bristles : 



*ibouchina-like Lasiandra. 



. ^2 L. HospiTA (D. C. prod. 



anched, scabrous in every part 



/anchlets somewhat tetragonal ; leaves on short petioles, el- 



'ptic, 3-nerved, quite entire, acute ; pedicels axillary, 1 -flowered ; 



j^vx globose, scarcely 5-toothed; capsule 5-celled. fj . S. 



^tive of Brazil, in the province of Minas Geraes, on the 



"fountains, in cold places. 

 '"ss. Lea 



Stamens 10, alternate ones rather the smallest, 

 De Candolle^s Lasiandra. Slirub 2 to 3 feet. . 

 17 L. Raddia'na (D. C. I.e.) shrubby; branches somewhat 

 tetragonal, furnished with a few adpressed bristles ; leaves pe- 

 tiolate, oblong, acuminated at both ends, quite entire, smoothish, 

 but bearing a few adpressed bristles, 3-nerved ; flowers ter- 

 minal, usually solitary ; calyx densely clothed with adpressed 

 silky villi. \i . S. Native of Brazil. Rhexia uniflora, Raddi. 



Rhexia Raddiana, Moricand. 



Rhexia hospita, Schrank and Mart, 

 long. The bristles on the leaves regu- 

 ween the veins. Bracteas deciduous. Sta- 



mem. 1. c. p. 9. but not of Vahl. 



herb. Ser. mss. Flowers large. Style and filaments hispid. 



Lobes of calyx deciduous. 



Raddis Lasiandra. Shrub 4 to G feet. 



18 L. Fontanesia\va (D. C. prod. 3. p. 130.) branches te- 



J *-^«ves an inch 



'^"■'y disposed bet 



^ens unknown. The branches becoming tumid from a species on the nerves and on the margins, the rest clothed with white 



tragonal ; angles winged; petioles, peduncles, and upper sur- 

 face of leaves beset with adpressed bristles ; leaves petiolate, 

 oblong, acute, 5-nerved, beset with adpressed bristles beneath 



^f cynips. 



Stranger Lasiandra. Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 

 *3 L. MACRocHi^TON (D. C. 1. c.) shrubby ; branches tetra- 

 P^alf beset with adpressed little bristles; leaves petiolate, oval, 

 'Oerved, beset with adpressed bristles above, but with dot-like 



stellate velvety down ; racemes terminal ; pedicels opposite, 1-3- 

 flowcred; calyx very villous, white; filaments very hairy. 

 fj. S. Native of Brazil, about Rio Janeiro and St. Paul. 

 Rhexia Fontanesii, Bonpl. rhex. t. 3fi. Rhexia aUta, Raddi. 

 mem. p. 8. Melastoma granulosa, Desr. in Lam. diet. 4. p. 



