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ribs and veins beneath ; flowers axillary, sessile or shortly stalked ; calyx somewhat powdery ; 

 lobes fimbriate with a few long-stalked glands, half the length of the cam pan //late tube ; 

 petals 4, oval, blunt ; ovary 4-locular : style linear. — A shrub, 8-10' high : younger branches 

 subcom pressed ; leaves 4"-6" long, membranaceous, entire, the opposite ones usually un- 

 equal, paler beneath ; flowers white, clustered, at length lateral on the old branches ; calyx- 

 lobes 1'" long ; anthers undulate, linear, blunt , berry blue : seeds ovate, with a large, lateral 

 hilum. — Hab. Jamaica!, Wils., near Mansfield. 



19. CI. trinitensis, Gr. Branches pilose and glabrescent ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, tapering towards the linear, subsessile base, triplinerved, glabrescent or pilose 

 beneath on the midrib ; flowers axillary, shortly stalked ; calyx-teeth subulate, with a short 

 point, much shorter than the carapanulate, glandular tube ; petals 4, pointed ; ovary bilocu- 

 lar. — Osssea, Crueg.t — A shrub, 6-8' high; leaves 5"-3" long, H"-l" broad, membrana- 

 ceous, entire ; flowers white, clustered ; calyx-tube 1'" long, much longer than the pedicel, 

 bearing long-stalked glands. — Hab. Trinidad !, Cr., in the northern hills. 



20. CI. Cruegeriana, Gr. Branches glabrous ; leaves lanceolate, long-acuminate, 

 rounded at the subsessile base, triplinerved, glabrous; flowers axillary, shortly stalked ; • 

 calyx-teeth reduced with a short point, tube campanulate, without glands ; petals 4, pointed ; 

 ovary . . . . — Osssea salicifolia, Crneg.! : his name, though a very appropriate one, was to 

 be altered on account of CI. salicifolia, Naud. — A shrub, 4'-5' high ; leaves 6"-3" long, 

 l"-6'" broad, and 2"' broad at the rounded base, membranaceous, entire ; flower-clusters few- 

 flowered ; ealyx-tube narrow, 1'" long, much longer than the pedicel. — Hab. Trinidad !, Cr., 

 at S. Anns with the preceding. 



Sect. 4. Oxymeris. — Anthers inflexed above the adherent ovary, oblong, tapering at the 

 base. Cymes axillary, short or slender, with narroto flowers. 



21. CI. capillaris, Gr. Glabrous; leaves lanceolate, acuminate, trin erred ; cymes 

 axillary, peduncled, few-flowered, exceeding the petiole ; calyx tubular : lobes 4, subulate ; 

 style thickened downwards, with a minute stigma. — Melastoma, Sw. ! Sagnca, DC. — A low 

 shrub, 2-6' high, with ascending, tetragonal branches, leafy only towards the top ; leaves 

 2"-3" long, 6"'-8'" broad, subentire, exceeding the cymes, the pair often of unequal length : 

 petiole 3"'-4'"long; flowers 2-4 times shorter than the filiform pedicels ; calyx \\ '"-2"' 

 long, i"' broad, with the pedicels somewhat rougbish (sometimes glandular) ; petals shorter 

 than the calyx, ovate, pointed, white; anthers 8, without appendages : pore single; ovary 

 4-2-locular ; berry blue. — Hab. Jamaica !, Macf, nils., March, in the Liguana and Leman 

 mountains, from 1200' upwards, chiefly in the upper regions. 



22. CI. hirtella, Gr. Branches pilose ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, trinerved, 

 glabrous above, glabrescent and glaucous beneath ; cymes axillary, shortly peduncled, few- 

 flowered, equallin»; the petiole; calyx campanulate, glandular: treth 4, reduced, with a short 

 point ; style linear, with a minute stigma. — Melastoma, Sw. ! Sagnca, DC. — A low shrub, 

 about 3' high : younger branches somewhat angular; leaves 3"-2" long, 1£"-1" broad, 

 green above, whitish beneath, membranaceous, entire : petiole pilose, 4"'-2'" long ; flowers 

 white, as long as the pedicel: calyx-tube 1'" long, longer than the petals; petals ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, pointed ; anthers 8, without appendages : pore partitioned ; berry globose, 4-locular, 

 purple. — Hab. Jamaica !, Sw., Wils., in the mountains, e.g. Cuna-Cuna pass, at 3000' alt. 



Sect. 5. Lima. — Anthers inflexed above the adherent ovary, elliptical-oblong. Panicle 



subterminal . 



23. Cl. Lima, DC. Branches muricated; leaves ovate, pointed, triplinerved, tuberclcd 

 on both sides, pitted beneath ; panicle raeemiform ; calyx tuberclcd : lobes subidatc, bluntish, 

 shorter than the tube; petals 5-4, taper-pointed ; ovary 5-4-locular : style fusiform, with a 

 minute stigma. — Cl. asperifolia, Naud. ! Cl. hirsuta, Macf. Sagnca Lima, Naud. : said to 

 differ by quaternary flower-parts and trinerved leaves, the description however agreeing in 

 all essential points', and Dcsrousseau's original plant, according to his own statement, pre- 

 senting the triplinerved leaves. S. bracteolata, Macf. — A shrub, 4'-6' high: branches 

 densely covered by short, thick bristles, without any softer down ; leaves jisually 2" long, 

 denticulate, petioled, without down : the dense tubercles of the upper side mucronate ; 



