MELASTOMACE.E. 



803 



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Flowers decandrous. 



branches twiggy, tetragonal, glabrous ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, Hairy Melastoma. Shrub, 



acuminated, 3-nerved, entire ; flowers white, octandrous ; calyx 

 4-toothed, the teeth subulate; petals oblong, longer than the 



calyx; filaments jointed under the anthers; stigma acute. K. Species natives of the West Indies. 



\2 . S. Native of Jamaica, in woods on the mountains. 



Twiggy Me\a.%tom?i. Shrub. 12 M. expa'nsum (Vahl. eclog. fasc. 3. p. 21.) brandies 



4 M. MATUBA(Spreng. neue. entd. 3. p. 61.) leaves ovate- terete, glabrous below; leaves oblong-ovate, attenuated, seta- 



oblong, 3-nerved, acuminated, glabrous, quite entire ; panicle 

 terminal, with trichotomous, erect branches ; calyx terete, trun- 

 cate. ^2 . S. Native of Guadaloupe and Antigua. 



Matuha Melastoma. Shrub. 



5 M. micra'ntuum (Swartz, prod. p. 71. fl. ind. occ. 2. p. 

 803.) branches twiggy, terete, glabrous ; leaves oblong, acumin- 

 ated at both ends, glabrous, 3-nerved, denticulated, petiolate ; 



racemes axillary, reclinate towards the tops of the branches ; , „ _ 



flowers white, octandrous ; calyx 4-toothed; petals 4, acumin- tetragonal, compressed towards the apex ; leaves broad-lanceo- 

 ated, with a blood-coloured spot at the base of each ; berry ' ' . . i - ^ .-. 



8-sided, 4-celled, white and pellucid at maturity, Tj . S. Na- 

 tive of Jamaica, on the mountains. Perhaps a species of Oss^'a 



Small-flowered 



ceously denticulated, glabrous, 5-nerved ; racemes compound, 

 powdery; flowers decandrous; pedicels dichotomous; calyx 

 campauulate, obscurely striated, 5-toothed ; petals 5, linear- 

 oblong, obtuse ; stamens longer than the corolla. \i . S. Na- 

 tive of the Island of Montserrat. Perhaps a species of Micbniay 

 allied to M. pyramidale. 



Expanded 5lelastoma. Shrub. 



13 M. capita'tum (Vahl. eclog. amer. fasc. 1. p. 45.) branches 



Shrub. 

 6 M. "triflorum (Vahl. eccl. fasc. 1. p. 46.) branches, pe- 

 tioles, and calyxes strigose ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate, quite 

 entire, 3-nerved : flowers axillary, octandrous, somewhat pedun- 

 culate, tern ; calyx turbinate, obscurely 4-toothed ; petals ovate, 

 exceeding the stamens. Tj. S. Native of the West Indies. 



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Shrub. 



7 M. tripline'rvia (Link, et Otto. icon. pi. rar. hort. berol. 

 t. 24.) stems branched ; leaves oval, bluntish, somewhat feather- 

 nerved towards the apex, tapering into the petiole at the base ; 

 hairs adpressed ; panicles terminal ; calyx with 4 acuminated 

 lobes. T2 • S. Native of Mexico, at Xalapa. Flowers white. 

 Leaves, petals, and sepals ciliated. 



Triple-nervedAeayed Melastoma. Fl. June, Aug. Clt, 1827. 



Shrub 2 to 4 feet. 



8 M. EcosTA TUM (Ait. hort kew. ed. 3. p. 46.) leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminated, denticulated, without ribs, triple-nerved, 

 pilose above, but smoothish beneath; corymbs terminal, tricho- 

 tomous; branchlets, peduncles, and calyxes clothed with pow- 

 dery tomentum ; flowers octandrous. ^ . S. Native of Ja- 

 maica. 



Ribless Melastoma. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



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late, quite entire, obtuse at the base, acuminated at the apex, 

 5-nerved, pilose, petiolate ; heads of flowers terminal, involu- 

 crated ; bracteas membranous, lanceolate, pilose on the back, 

 about the length of the cal}x ; calyx glabrous, tubular, pilose 

 at the base : having lanceolate, ciliated segments ; petals oblong, 

 longer than the calyx ; filaments with 2 appendages each ; ova- 

 rium elongated, beset with setaceous pili at the apex. ^2 . S. 

 Native of the West Indies. Perhaps a species of Chcetogdstra. 



Capitate-Qowered Melastoma. Shrub. 



14 M. NERVOSUM (Smith in Rees' cycl. vol. 23.) stem terete, 

 bristly ; leaves elliptic-oblong, acute, crcnated at the base and 

 apex, 5-nerved, villous; flowers in glomerated spikes. T^ • S* 

 Native of Jamaica. Allied to Micbnia alata according to 

 Smith. 



Nerved- 

 15 M. 



Shrub. 



branches nearly terete, glabrous ; branchlets rusty ; leaves ob- 

 long, acuminated, glabrous on both surfaces, 5-nerved, entire, 

 shining above ; flowers in umbellate panicles, small, almost ses- 

 sile ; calyx 5-toothed ; petals 5, ovate, white ; stigma capitatje, 

 depressed ; berry blue, minute. Tj . S. Native of Jamaica, in 

 woods on the mountains. Plum, ed Burm. t. 140. ex Swartz. 

 Perhaps a species oi Micbnia. 



Splendent Melastoma. Shrub. 



16 M. FAVOSUM (Desr. in Lam. diet. 4. p. 47.) branchlets 

 clothed with rufous rather scurfy tomentum ; leaves ovate, rather 



terete, and are as well as the petioles, nerves of leaves, pedun- cordate, denticulated, 5-nerved, large, lacunose beneath, and 

 cles, and calvxes clothed with long, rufous, rather adpressed with many angled tubercles above ; flowers corymbose, termi- 



bristles ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminated at both ends, 3- 

 nerved, with the margins revolute ; thyrse terminal ; lobes of 



* " " "^ Native of Brazil. Per- 



calyx 4, narrow, acuminated. ^ . S. 



Miconiece. It is not 



a Clidemia, from the ovarium being glabrous at the apex : nor 

 a Micbnia, from the calyx being 4-cleft. 

 Willowy Melastoma. Shrub 3 to 6 feet. 



10 M. pi'cTUM (Rudolph, in Schrad. neues. journ. vol. 2. pt. 

 2. p. 293.) branches nearly terete, smooth ; branchlets hoary ; 

 leaves ovate, acuminated, obsoletely denticulated, 5-nerved, 

 covered with strigae above, and reticulately tomentose beneath ; 

 panicles terminal, divaricate; flowers octandrous; calyx .4- 

 toothed ; petals oblong, purple, with undulated margins; anthers 

 acuminated. Tp . S. Native of Jamaica, on the mountains. 



Painted Melastoma. Shrub 3 to 6 feet. 



11 M. cRiNfTUM (Vahl. eel. fasc. S. p. 28.) branches terete, 

 glabrous below, leafless at the apex, hispid from white pili; 

 leaves oval-oblong, denticulated, hispid on both surfaces; flowers 

 octandrous ; tube of calyx short, tetragonal ; angles acutish, 

 gibbous at the base ; calycine segments 4, awned beneath the 

 apex ; genitals length of corolla. ^2 . S. Native of Martinico, 

 on the mountains. Perhaps a species of CUd^mia. 



nal; calyx rounded at the base, 10-angled, bluntly 5-toothed; 

 petals red, longer than the calyx. Tj . S. Native of St. Do- 

 mingo. Perhaps a species of Clidemia. 

 PittedAeayed Melastoma. Shrub. 



17 M. piluli'ferum (Vahl, eclog. fasc. 3. p. 15.) branches 

 obscurely tetragonal, glabrous, spreading ; branchlets compres- 

 sed, clothed with rufous powdery down ; leaves lanceolate-elh'p- 

 tic, quite entire, glabrous, petiolate; flowers spicate, decan- 

 drous ; spikes bipartite, in a somewhat compound raceme ; brac- 

 teas setaceous; calyx S-toothed, striated; stamens longer than 

 the corolla; berries globose, twice the size of a mustard seed. 

 T2 . S. Native of Martinico. Perhaps a species of Micbnia. 



Pill-hearing Melastoma. Shrub. 



18 M. trine'rvium (Swartz, fl. ind. occ. p. 774.) quite gla- 

 brous ; branches somewhat tetragonal ; leaves petiolate, oblong, 

 attenuated at both ends, 3-nerved, without any marginal ner- 

 vules; thyrse terminal, loose, panicled; racemules bipartite; 

 flowers crowded, sessile, decandrous. Tj . S. Native of Ja- 

 maica, on the mountains. Calyx, petals, fruit, and genitals un^ 



described. 



TAree-nerterf-leaved Melastoma. Shrub. 



19 M. vire'scens (Vahl, eclog. fasc. 3. p. 18.) branches 

 5k 2 



