LVII. MELASTOMACEE (HOOKER). 44] 
Trme 3. Medinillese.— Ovary almost or wholly adnate to the calyz-tube. Fruit a 
berry, rarely a capsule, crowned by the calyx-limb, or areolate ; crown convex, glabrous 
or bristly. Seeds usually obovoid or pyramidal, never cochleate. 
Anthers 10, very unequal, connective much lengthened, with 2 an- 
ticous and no posticous spurs. . . . . . . . . . « « 10, SARERSIA. 
Anthers 10, very unequal ; connective much lengthened, with 2 an- 
cous and a posticous spur: : : : : . 4’. + ss « + 11, Diompngeprs, 
Anthers, 8, 10, 12, subequal ; connective not lengthened below . 12. Meprnima. 
SuBORDER II. MEmEcYLER. 
Ovary either 1-celled with the ovules whorled round a central pla- 
centa, or 2- or more -celled, with few collateral ascending ovules in 
the axis of each cell. Fruit few-seeded. Seeds large; embryo large, 
cotyledons plano-convex or subfoliaceous. 
Ovary 1-celled; ovules whorled . . . . . . . . . « . « 18, Memecyzon. 
1. NEROPHILA, Naud.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 744. 
_Calyx shortly campanulate, glabrous; lobes 4, subulate-lanceolate, 
ciliate, persistent, with minute alternating teeth. Petals 4, obovate, 
apiculate, Stamens 8, filaments thickened below; anthers equal, 
linear-oblong, pore single, connective obscurely tubercled at the base. 
Ovary free, 4-celled, top bristly; style filiform, stigma simple. — 
sule 4-valved. Seeds cochleate.—A small annual erect setulose herb. 
Leaves few, sessile, ovate or oblong, obscurely serrate. Flowers 1-3 
: tof) Z 
at the tips of the branches, small, yellow, involucrate. 
The only species, confined to Senegambia. 
1. N. gentianoides, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 8, xiv. 119, and 
Xl. t. 8. Stem 4-8 in., 4-gonous, simple or 3-chotomously branched, 
very slender, strict. Leaves 1 in., subacute, setulose on both surfaces. 
Flowers capitate on capillary erect branches; heads surrounded by an 
involucre of 4 leaves like the cauline, about } in. in diameter. Calyx- 
lobes subulate-lanceolate. Anthers erect, yellow. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, in marshes of the Senegal river, Heudelot ! 
2, OSBECKIA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 744. 
Calyx-tube ovoid urceolate or subglobose, usually produced beyond 
the ovary, hispid bristly or clothed with scales that bear pectinately or 
stellately arranged bristles, of which a series often alternates with the 
calyx-lobes ; lobes 5, rarely 4 (deciduous in the African species). Pe- 
tals 5, rarely 4, obovate. “Stamens 10, rarely 8, equal or subequal ; 
anthers linear-subulate, large or small, incurved or sigmoid ; connec- 
ve shortly or not at all produced, usually dilated or 2-tubercled at 
the base. Ovary adherent, 5- rarely 4-celled, top bristly; style slender, 
stigma simple or capitellate. Capsule small, sunk in the at! calyx- 
tube, 4-5-valved at the top. Seeds minute, cochleate-— erbs or 
shrubs, usually erect and hispid strigose or scabrid. Leaves 3-?- 
