250 MELASTOMACE.E. 



panicle loose, exhibiting stalked, 3-flowered heads ; petals rosy ; anthers somewhat tubcrcled 

 at the base; berry purple. — Hab. Jamaica!, Mac/., rare in the mountains; [Cuba!, Haiti]. 



6. TSCHUDYA, DC. reform.; Naud. (I. c. \%. p. 91). 



(Clidemise sp., DC, Naud.) 



Caly.r campanulate or semiglobose : limb reduced : teeth short, bluntish or obsolete. An- 

 thers 10-8, linear, indexed above the ovary, opening with a single terminal pore : cells con- 

 nected above. Ovary crowned with a neck, bearing terminal bristles or a minute down. — 

 Shrubs, usually hispid ; panicle usually terminal, with clustered or serial flowers. 



24. T. rufescens, DC. Branches, petioles, and panicle shaggy with rusty hairs ; leaves 

 ovate-oblong or elliptical-oblong, acuminate, 3-nerved or tripli nerved, hairy chiefly on the 

 nerves and more dense beneath j panicle compound : ultimate branchlets with serial, sessile 

 flowers ; petals 5, subulate ; stigma capitate; berry 5-locular. — DC. Melast. t. 9. — T. as- 

 periuscula, DC. Clidemia rhodopogon, DC. — A shrub, 6-10' high; leaves 4"-6" long, 

 denticulate or repand, pctioled ; panicle spreading : ultimate cymes 3-7-flowered ; calyx- 

 teeth linear, deciduous, about one-sixth the length of the tube; petals "greenish;" anthers 

 without appeudages ; seeds obovate -. rhaphe produced into a large appendage. — Hab. Tri- 

 nidad!, Lockh., Cr., in mountain woods; [Guiana, equatorial Brazil]. 



25. T. ibaguensis, Gr. Branches, petioles, and panicle shaggy with rusty hairs; 

 leaves ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 3-nerved or triplinerved, with scattered 

 hairs, chieily on the nerves ; panicle trichotomous : flowers shortly serial, sessile ; petals 5, 

 obovate ; stigma peltate ; berry 3-locular. — Bonpl. Mel. t. 45 ; Miq. Comment. Phytogr. 2. 

 t. 10 G. — Melastoma, Bonpl. Clidemia miconipides, Benth. ! CI. maculata, Benth. ap. 

 Crueg. ! ; Sieb. Trin. n. 64 ! : the plant described by Bentham differs by having more hairy 

 leaves. Miconia eriophora, Miq. I Clid. agrestis, DC. ? — A shrub, 4'-6' high : its habit 

 exactly like the preceding species, but the panicle less compound and not so loose, terminal 

 on the branches, and the petals bluut ; leaves 3"-4" long, denticulate ; calyx-teeth minute, 

 tuherculiform, connected by the entire margin of the limb, deciduous ; anthers bitubercled 

 at the base on the anterior side ; seeds pyramidal. — Hab. Trinidad !, Sieb., Cr., in woods ; 

 [Mexico !, Panama !, New Granada, Guiana !]. 



26. T. strigillosa, Gr. {n. sp.). Branchlets, petioles, and panicle somewhat strigose 

 with rusty hairs ; leaves ellipticai-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, conspicuously triplinerved, 

 glabreseent, or with scattered, appressed 4airs, chiefly on the nerves ; panicle infraterminal : 

 flowers ternate, shortly stalked, and with two minute bracts ; petals 5, linear, acuminate ; 

 stigma minute ; berry . . . . — Leaves (3"— 6" long) entire and shortly ciliate : the lateral 

 nerves 3"'-6'" distant from the leaf-base ; calyx strigillose, a little distant from the strigose 

 bracts ; teeth minute, exceeded by the petals ; petals 1'" long, half the length of the style ; 

 anthers 10, linear and subulate.— Hab. Trinidad !, Cr., at Tocuche. 



27. T. berbiceana, Gr. Branches glabreseent : petioles and panicle rusty-downy ; 

 leaves ovate, pointed, subcordate at the base, Z-h-nerved, glabreseent and ciliated-serrulate ; 

 panicle trichotomous : flowers clustered, all terminal ; petals 5, obovate ; stigma minute ; 

 berry 3-loeular, furrowed. — Clidemia, DC. Miconia eriopoda, Benth. ! M. clidemioides, 

 Steud. ! M. berbiceana, Naud. M. plearocarpa, Naud. Melastoma pleurocarpum, & 

 Mey. .' Decaraphe Fockeana, Miq. ! — A shrub, 6'-8' high, variable in the form and down 

 of leaves ; leaves 3"-6" long, pctioled ; calyx-limb shortly 5-lobed; lobes broad, blunt, and 

 minutely tnbercled on the back ; petals pale yellow or white ; anthers curved, bitubercled 

 at the base on the anterior side : beak of the ovary bearing only a minute, evanescent down ; 

 seeds oval. — Hab. Trinidad !, Sieb., Cr. ; [Guiana !, where it is common]. 



28. T. lartata, Gr. Branches, petioles, and panicle woolly ; leaves ovate, pointleted, 

 subcordate at the base, 3-nerved, crenate, velvety, hoary beneath ; panicle trichotomous : 

 flowers clustered, all terminal ; petals 5, obovate ; stigma capitate ; berry 3-locular. — Clide- 

 mia, DC, ex Sieb. Trin. n. 66 ! Staphidium, Naud. — A high shrub, at least 8'-14' high ; 

 leaves 4"-8'' long, petioled ; calyx-limb shortly 5-lobed : lobes broad, blunt, and minutely 

 tnbercled on the back; petals white, fragrant; anthers curved, bitubercled at the base oti 

 the auterior side ; seeds oval. — Hab. S. Vincent !, Guild.; Trinidad!, Sieb., Lockh., Cr., in 

 woods ; [Guiana] . 



