788 MELASTOMACEiE. LXX. Phyllopus. LXXL Henriettea. LXXIL Marumia. LXXIII. Creochiton. 



1-flovvered; calyx urceolate, bluntly 5 -toothed ; petals ovate. 



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calyx. Style cylindrical, rather velvety at the base. Stigma a 



pruinose dot. Fruit probably baccate, 5-celled. Seeds un- Tj . S. Native of Jamaica, in marshes. Melastoma ramiflora, 



known. — Brazilian shrubs, having the younger branchlets and Sw^artz, fl. ind. occ. p. 775. Flowers flesh-coloured. 



Anth 



petioles clothed with rufous adpressed bristles, but at length sagittate, acuminated. Stigma blunt. Leaves of a golden 



becoming smooth. Leaves oblong, elongated, acuminated, 3- 

 nerved, quite entire, with a few scattered bristles above, but 

 covered with pale rufous stellate down beneath. Pedicels axil- 

 lary, 1 -flowered, a little longer than the petioles, bearing 2 

 linear foliaceous bracteas above the middle. Calyx very hispid. 

 Petals purple. 



1 P. Martiu'sii (D. C. prod. 3. p. 178.) ^ . S. 

 Brazil at Coari, and at Cupati in the province of Rio Negro, in 

 fields. Melastoma phyllopus, Schrank et Mart. mss. Leaves 

 5-G inches long, and 1 broad. 



yellow hue above. 



Branch-Jiowered Henriettea. 



Cult. 



Shrub 6 to 10 feet. 



For culture and propagation see Melastoma^ p. 764. 



LXXII. MARU'MIA (in honour of the celebrated vegetable 



physiologist, Martin Van Marum, author of Dissertationes qua 



Native of disqulritur quo usque motus fluidorum animalium et plantarum 



consentiunt, 4to. Groningen, 1773, and other works), Blum, in 

 bot. zeit. 1831. no. 29. p. 503. 



LiN". SYST. Octdndrta^ Monogynia. Tube of calyx oblong- 



Martiuss Phyllopus. Shrub. 



Cult. For culture and propagation see Mel&stoma^ p. 764. 



LXXL HENRIE'TTEA {Caca-Henrielte is the name given 



ovate, adhering at the base to the ovarium, beset with stiff 

 hairs : 



s ; limb 4-cleft, drawn out beyond the ovarium, witli the 

 segments oblong-linear and permanent. Petals 4, unequal- 

 sided. Stamens 8, alternate ones shorter; anthers linear, 

 to the tree by the natives of Cayenne). D. C. prod. 3. p. f78. arched, beaked at the apex, and opening by 1 pore, those of the 

 LiN. SYST. Decdndria, Monogynia. Calyx campanulate, 5- longer stamens constricted at the base, and furnished with a 

 lobed ; lobes broad, obtuse. Petals 5, velvety, ovate. Sta- fascicle of bristles ; and those of the shorter ones furnished 

 mens 10 ; anthers thick, bifid at the base, and ending in a beak at with fewer bristles at the base. Ovarium conical in the free 

 the apex opening by one pore. Style cylindrical, hairy, crowned by part and rather villous. Style filiform, thickest at the base. 

 an obtuse capitate stigma. Berry juicy, 5-celled. Seeds unknown. Stigma a clammy dot. Berry ovate, inclosed in the calyx, 4- 

 — Shrubs, native of Guiana, with nearly terete branches, clothed celled, many-seeded. Seeds linear-cuneiform, angular.— Sar- 

 with adpressed strigose down. Leaves on short petioles, oval, mentose shrubs. Leaves opposite, petiolate, oblong, somewhat 

 acuminated by a mucrone, triple-nerved, green above, and clothed 5-nerved, quite entire, discoloured, glabrous above, but clothed 

 with velvety down beneath. Peduncles 1 -flowered, rising, 3-4 with stellate or lepidotted down beneath as well as on the 

 together, from the axils of the fallen leaves. Calyx clothed branches and peduncles. Inflorescence axillary, cymose, or 



with rufous villi. 



1 H. succosA (D. C. prod. 3. p, 178.) branches bluntly te- coloured, bibracteate. 

 tragonal, but at length becoming terete, and are as well as the 



subcorymbose, few or many-flowered. Flowers large, rose- 



petioles 



petioles, quintuple-nerved, oval, "acuminated by a mucrone, 

 quite entire, green above, hairy on the nerves, but the rest of 



1 



M. MuscosA (Blum, in bot. zeit. 1831. no. 29. p. 504.) 

 leaves somewhat cordate, ovate-oblong, acuminated, clothed 

 with rusty scurfy tomentum beneath ; peduncles many-flowered; 

 calyx densely clothed with tomentum, intermixed with soft sim- 



leaf scabrous from stiff* bristles, and clothed with roughish rusty pie bristles. ^. S. Native of Java, in mountain woods, where 



down beneath; pedicels 3-4 together, 1-flowered, in the axils 



of the fallen leaves, rustyj calyx rusty, villous, bluntly 5- 

 lobed. - '^ — • " 



it is called by the natives Harendong-bulu. Melastoma mus- 

 cosum, Blum, bijdr. p. 1070. Melast. ferruginea, Reinwdt. 



1? . S. Native of Cayenne, in woods, where it is called ined. Flowers large, rose-coloured. 



Henr 



418. t. 162. 



Melastoma 

 Calyx obovate-globose. 



Petal 



guian. 1. p - 



large, ovate, velvety. Anthers large, obtuse and biauriculate 



Mossy Marumia. Shrub sarmentose. 

 2 M. stellulVta (Blum. 1. c. p. 505.) leaves oblong-ovate, 

 rather cordate at the base or roundish, tomentose beneath ; pe- 



at the base, but tapering into a 1-pored beak at the apex. duncles 1-5-flowered; calyx beset with spine-like bristles, which 

 btyle thick, hardly capitate at the apex. Berry violaceous, but . » - .- 



with the pulp red. 



Juicy-heTTled Henriettea. Shrub 10 to 12 feet. 



r 



■j" Doubtful species. 



2 H. ? Patrfsia'na (D. C. 1. c.) branches nearly terete, and 

 are as well as the petioles and nerves of leaves scabrous from 

 adpressed, reddish strigae ; leaves petiolate, oval, obtuse at the 

 base, acute at the apex, ciliated with bristles, triple-nerved, 

 besides the 2 marginal nervules, glabrous on both surfaces, 

 except on the nerves ; pedicels crowded in the axils of the old 

 or fallen leaves, very short, 1-flowered, and are as well as the 

 calyxes clothed with adpressed, rufous down ; limb of calyx 

 bluntly 5-lobed ; petals lanceolate. ^2 • S. Native of Cayenne. 



Leaves 3 inches long. Flowers small, almost sessile. Adult of Ceylon. 



are stellately multifid at the apex. ^ . S. Native of Sumatra 

 and Saloma. Melastoma stellul^tum, Jack, in Lin. trans. 1*. 

 p. 6. Flowers large, rose-coloured. 



^ST/eZ/a/e-spined Marumia. Sh. sarmentose. 



3 M. NEMOROSA (Blum. 1. c ) leaves somewhat lanceolate, 

 cordate, clothed with ^rusty, leprous down beneath; peduncles 

 1-3-flowered ; calyx covered with simple bristles. ^2 • S. ^^' 

 tive of Sumatra and Pulo-Nias. Melastoma nemorosa, Jack, 

 in Lin. trans. 14. p. liO, Flowers large, pale red. 



Grove Marumia. Shrub sarmentose. , 



4 M. Zeyla'nica (Blum. 1. c.) leaves ovate-oblong, rather 

 cordate, bluntly acuminated, scurfy beneath ; peduncles usually 

 3-flowered ; calyx clothed with simple bristles. ^ S. Nativ 



l2.S. 



Berry 



branches glabrous. Style filiform. Stamens not seen, 

 glabrous, jjlobose. Limb of calyx permanent, incurved. 



Patris's Henriettea. Shrub 6 to 10 ft. 



S H.? ramifl6ka (D. C. I.e.) branches bluntly tetragonal, 

 hispid, but at length becoming glabrous ; leaves on short pe- 

 tioles, ovate-lanceohte, acuminated at both ends, entire, 3- 

 nerved, besides the 2 marginal nervules, smooth above, but 

 clothed with roughish rather rusty tomentum beneath ; pedicels 

 scattered on the branches beneath the leaves, rather crowded, 



Ceylon Marumia. Shrub sarmentose. 



Cult. For culture and propagation see Meldstomay p. 764. A 

 the species bear showy flowers, and are therefore worth cultivating- 



LXXIIL CREOCHITON (from Kptap, crear, flesh, an^ 

 X*ru>v, chiton^ an outer coat; in reference to the outer *^^^^*, . 

 is, the bracteas, being fleshy and inclosing the flower-bud, 

 its young state). Blum, in bot. zeit. 1831. no. 29. p. 506. 



Lin. SYST. Octdndrla, Monogynia. Tube of "^y^ g'^^^J^I 

 adhering to the ovarium ; limb short, continuous with the ^ 



