804 



MELASTOMACEiE. 



terete, greenish, glabrous, rather compressed above, and beset scabrous above, but hoary beneath, petiolate, S-5-nerved ; 

 with rather powdery villi ; leaves obovate-lanceolate, denticu- flowers decandrous, aggregate beneath the leaves, rather pedun- 

 lated, glabrous, smooth, 3-5-nerved ; spikes terminal, racemose, culate and strigose; calyx oblong, with rufescent stripes, and 

 bipartite; flowers secund, decandrous; calyx somewhat cam- with 5 ovate obtuse segments; petals roundish, length of the 

 panulate, 5-toothed, powdery ; anthers linear, curved, furnished 

 at the base on one side with a short brown auricle ; style length 

 of stamens, but longer than the corolla; berry globose, about 



the size of a mustard seed, h 



Native of the Island of 



Trinidad. 



Melastoma. Shrub small. 



M 



segments of the calyx ; stamens length of corolla ; style clavate, 

 crowned by an obtuse stigma. ^ . S. Native of Guiana. 



Brown-cdlyxed Melastoma* Shrub. 



28 M. GRossux-ARioiDES (Lin. spec. 558.) leaves roundish- 

 ovate, acuminated, denticulated, 3-nerved, glabrous on both sur- 

 faces; flowers decandrous. Tj . S. Native of Surinam, — Pluk. 

 aim. 40. t. 249. f. 4. 



Melastom 



Shrub. 



M 



Wikst 



shrub with very straight tetragonal branches, clothed with rusty 

 scurfy down towards the apex ; leaves ovate, cordate, denticu- 

 lated, petiolate, 3-nerved, stiff, rather membranous, glabrous, acad. sc. stockh. 1827.) leaves ovate or lanceolate, acuminated, 

 brittle; racemes terminal, many-flowered, beset with rusty crenulated, S-nerved, glabrous ; branches of panicle 3-parted; 

 hairs ; flowers decandrous ; calyx ovate, hairy, 5-toothed ; teeth flowers icosandrous. Tj . S. Native of Guadaloupe. 



short, obtuse, stiflf*; petals ovate, white ; stamens longer than the 

 corolla; filaments keeled on the back; style short, thick, 

 striated ; stigma obtuse ; berries roundish, clothed with rusty 

 farina. 



Stiff Mel 



Native of Jamaica, on the highest mountains. 

 Shrub. 



21 M. CiiRTSTOPHORiA NUM (Hamilt prod. fl. ind. occ. p. 37.) daloupe. 

 stems bushy, glabrous, erect ; leaves obovate, acute, quite en- 



Icosandrous Melastoma. Shrub. 



30 M. ruNCTULA^TUM (Swartz, herb, ex Wikst. 1. c.) leaves 

 opposite, ovate, acuminated, quite entire, 5-nerved, glabrous, 

 full of elevated dots beneath ; cymes terminal, contracted, few- 

 flowered ; calyx glabrous, 5-crenated. T2 • S* Native of Gua- 



Melastoma. Shrub. 



tire, green above and white beneath, triple-nerved; flowers de- 

 candrous, panicled, terminal ; peduncles rather trichotomous. 



T2 . S. Native of the Island of St. Christopher. Flowers 

 small, red. 



St. Christopher Melastoma. Shrub. 



92 M. SESsiLiFLORUM (Lin. spec. 558.) leaves oblong-spatu- 

 late, sessile, entire, 3-nerved, tomentose beneath ; fascicles of 

 flowers scattered. Tj . S. 

 249. f. 2. 



31 M. farinule'ntum (Swartz, herb, ex Wikst. 1. c.) leaves 

 scattered, ovate, attenuated, quite entire, 3-nerved, beset with 

 adpressed dots beneath, rather mealy ; raceme straight, trifidly 



" . S. Native of 



3-parted ; flowers pedicellate, decandrous. 

 Guadaloupe. 



^ 



Mealy Melastoma. Shrub. 



Native of Jamaica. — Pluk. phyt. t. 



/ 



Sesstte-Jlowered Melastoma. Shrub small. 



23 M. brachia'tum (Vahl, eclog. fasc. 3. p. 24.) branches 

 smooth, terete ; branchlets compressed, clothed with rusty pow- 

 dery down ; leaves elliptic, attenuated, denticulated, glabrous, 



32 M. 



5-nerved; nerves powdery beneath ; spikes bipartite, racemose, imbricate tubercles and adpressed hairs. Tp . S. 



RADULUM (Hoffmanns, verz. 182G. p. 159.) stem 



terete, somewhat articulated, bluntly 4-winged ; leaves petiolate, 

 ovate, acuminated, 3-nerved, somewhat denticulated, rough 

 above, and beset with decumbent hairs beneath; flowers cy- 

 mose ; calyx ovate, somewhat pentagonal, beset with somewhat 



• • • • ' ' ' - ' ' ' -* Native of 



secund ; calyx about the size of a black pepper, sulcated, glo- 

 bose when the fruit is ripe ; petals small, obovate ; flowers de- 

 candrous. 



Brazil. 



Macdi 



^ 



Native of Montserrat. 



RaspAeRwedi Melastoma. Shrub. 



33 M. Brasiliekse (Spreng. syst. 2. p. 297.) leaves lanceo- 

 late, acuminated, quite entire, hoary beneath, as well as the 

 branches and calyxes from stellate down ; branches of panicle 

 divaricate. Tj . S. Native of Brazil. 



Brazilian Melastoma. Shrub, 



34 M. serrula'tum (Spreng. syst. 2. p. 300. but not of Pav.) 

 leaves oblong, acute, serrulately ciliated, clothed with fulvous 

 hairs on both surfaces, and on the branches ; panicle terminal, 

 trichotomous, with divaricate branches. ^ . S. Native 01 

 Brazil. 



Serrulated-leaved Melastoma. Shrub. . 



, . , r y 35 M.HETERONEu' rum (Schranket Mart, mss.) shrubby, gla- 



branches ^ terete, a little striated ; leaves oblong, acuminated, brous, rufescent, with terete branches; leaves oval-oblong, 



tapering much into the petiole, acuminated at the apex, triple- 

 nerved '"" "^' *" "~ '^ '* '' " ^ -T«-« olmn«t seSSllvi 



Armed Melastoma. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



24 M. STRiA^TUM (Vahl, eclog. fasc. 3. p. 14.) branches gla- 

 brous, powdery and compressed towards the top ; leaves ovate- 

 oblong, attenuated, glabrous, toothed, 3-5-nerved ; racemes ter- 

 minal, compound ; pedicels 8-flowered ; calyx glabrous, trun- 

 cate or S-lobed; lobes rounded; petals 5, wedge-shaped; 

 stamens length of the petals. Tj . S. Native of Montserrat. 



Striated Melastoma. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



2f 



M 



serrulated, ciliated, truncate at the base, 5-nerved, rather pilose; 

 panicle terminal ; flowers glomerate, decandrous ; calyx gla- 

 brous, 10-ribbed, 5-tooihed; anthers with long beaks, bicallous 

 at the base ; berry 3-celled, crowned by an entire margin. T; . S. 

 Native of Surinam. Petals obovate, concave. 



bbed-fruited 



Shrub. 



*iv,i»,^« KIM, almost quintuple-nerved; flowers almost ses 

 crowded, axillary ; fruit globose ; calycine lobes 5'G, deciduous. 

 Tj . S. Native of Brazil, in the woods of Tapura. The nerv^ 

 on the lower leaves are nearly marginal, and those on the «pp^ 



Micbn 



^b M. FUA GiLE (Lm. til. suppl. 236.) leaves ovate, serrated, and somewhat alternate. Petals and stamens unknown. ^^^ 

 rather petiolate, 5-nerved, smooth, ciliated, very brittle ; lower 

 peduncles trifid ; pedicels usually S-flowered ; flowers decan- 

 drous, rather secund ; berry pea-formed, glabrous. ^ . S. Na- 

 tive of Brazil, Mexico, and Surinam. 



BrittleAeayed Melastoma. Shrub. 



haps a proper genus. 



Variable-nerved Melastoma. 



Shrub. 



D. Species natives of New Grenada. 



vol. 23.) leaves 



x,.»»^-ieaveaivieiastoma. SM.ruD 36 M. squamulSsum (Smith in Rees* cycl. vol.23.; it^-- 



27 M. BRu NNEUM (Vahl, eclog. fasc. 3. p. 19.) shrub with elliptic, obtuse, 3-nerved, entire, smooth above, but covered ^'tn 

 terete branches, and tetragonal branchlets ; leaves oval, ciliated, scale-like hairs beneath ; flowers panicled, terminal, dense , 



