248 MELASTOMACEjE. 



12. CI. Swartzil, Or. Branches and petioles pilose with dense, rusty, deciduous hairs ; 

 leaves ovate, pointed, 5-nerved, with scattered hairs or glabrescent: petioles equalling the 

 axillary, racemiform cymes ; calyx pilose, semiglobose, bibracteolate : lobes reduced, mucro- 

 natc, with the macro shorter than the subulate'base ; petals 4, roundish ; ovary 4-locular : 

 style filiform, with a capitulate stigma. — Melastoma pilosa, Sw.l Sagrsea pilosa, DC. Sta- 

 phidiastram pilosum, Naud. St. rubrinerve, Naud. ? — A shrub ; leaves 4 -6" long, dcuti- 

 cidate or entire ; cymes slender, either simple or trifid towards the base, densely pilose : 

 flowers small ; petals white, with a red base ; berry hairy, small. — Hab. Jamaica !, Pd. ; S. 

 Yincent !, Guild., in mountain woods ; [Cuba]. 



13. CI. guadalupensi$, Or. Branches tetragonal, powdery or downy, at length 

 glabrous; lea ves ovate, taper- pointed, triplinerved, glabrescent: petioles shorter than the 

 peduncles of the axillary, racemiform cymes; calyx downy: lobes filiform from a subulate 

 base, much shorter than the tube ; petals 4, bluntish ; ovary 4-locular : stigma minute. — 

 Plum. Ed. Burm. t. 142. /. 2 : a form with large leaves. — Sagrsea, DC. — Leaves 3"-6" 

 long: transverse veins prominent beneath; cymes interrupted and few-flowered; anthers 

 without appendages ; berry black.- — Hab. Dominica !, Imr.; [Guadeloupe!]. 



14. CI. hirsuta, Gr. Branches and petioles pilose with rusty bristles ; leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate, taper-pointed, triplinerved, with scattered hairs : petioles shorter than the 

 spreading pedicels of the axillary, coryni Inform cymes; calyx setose: lobes filiform, from a 

 subulate base, as long as the tube ; petals 4, taper-pointed; ovary 4-loculnr: style fusiform, 

 with a minute stigma.- Melastoma, &'». Sagrsea, DC. — A shrub, 2'-3' high ; leaves 2"-3" 

 long ; cymes few-flowered; petals whitish; anthers without appendages ; berry hairy, black- 

 purple. — Hab. Jamaica !, Macf, Pd., Wils., on the south-eastern hills. 



15. CI. microphylla, Gr. Branches and leaves downy with short, substrigose hairs ; 

 leaves ovate, blunt, triplinerved, equalling the pedicels or twice as long ; calyx pilose, semi- 

 globose : lobes filiform from a subulate base, shorter than the tube ; petals 4, ovate, pointed j 

 ovary 4-locular : stigma minute. — Melastoma, Sw. ! Sagrsea, DC. Osstea pratensis, Macf. 

 — A shrub, 2'-3' high, with many divaricated branches; leaves 6" -12'" long, denticulate or 

 repand : petiole l'"-2'" long ; axillary pedicels usually solitary, simple (or " tripartite"), 

 filiform ; petals white ; anthers without appendages ; berry hispid, purple. — Hab. Jamaica!, 

 Macf., Pd., Al., in pastures of the central valleys. 



Sect. 3. Staphidtastrvjm. — Anthers indexed above the adherent ovary. Flowers in 



axillary clusters. 



16. CI. rubra, Mart. Branches rnsty-tomentose or shaggy ; leaves more or less ellip- 

 tical, quintuplinerved, tubercled and strigose above, tomentose beneath, upper ones shortly 

 petiofed or subsessile ; flowers crowded, sessile ; calyx strigose s lobes much shorter than the 

 tube; petals 4 (-5), obovate ; ovary 4-3-locular : style filiform, with a minute stigma. — 

 Vahl, Eclog. 2. t. 18; Bonpl. Mel. t. 39. — Melastoma, Aubl.! Sagraa sessiliflora, DC. 

 Staphidiastrnm rnbium, Naud. St. attenuatum, Naud. St. Bonplandii, Naud. .- a form 

 with longer petioles. Clid. debilis, Crueg.!-. the same. — A shrub, 3'-5' high ; leaves usually 

 2"-4" long, elliptical-ovate or elliptical-oblong, subacute ; petals red (sometimes white) ; an- 

 thers without appendages. — Hab. Trinidad !, Lockh., Cr., common in gravelly savannahs ; 

 [S. Thomas, Panama!, Venezuela! to Brazil! and Peru!]. 



17. CI. scabrosa, Gr. Branches tomentose ; leaves ovate, bluntish, tripli-quintupli- 

 nerved, rough : petioles much longer than the axillary, sessile flowers ; calyx strigose : lobes 

 as long as the semiglobose tube ; petals 4, taper-pointed ; ovary 4-locular : style filiform, with 

 a minute stigma. — Br. Jam. t. S.4./". 3. — Ossaa, DC. Sagrsea, Naud. S. glomerata, Naud.: 

 a form with crowded flowers. S. Lindeniana, Naud.!: a form with few-flowered clusters. — 

 A shrub, 4'-10' high ; leaves 2"-4" long, rough with short conical bristles on both sides, 

 glaucous and obsoletely pitted beneath, crenulated ; petals white and tinged with purple ; 

 anthers without appendages, short ; berry hairy, rufous. — Ha.b. Jamaica !, Macf., AL, Wils., 

 along riversides in the hills ; [Cuba !]. 



18. Cl. crossosepala, Gr. (n. sp.). Branches pilose and glabrescent ; leaves ovate or 

 elliptical-lanceolate, taper-pointed, quintuplinerved or triplinerved (sometimes obliquely tri- 

 nerved), subacute at the petioled base, glabrous or glabrescent, ciliate, and powdery on the 



