454 LVII. MELASTOMACEE (HOOKER). [ Dissotis. 
opaque, scabrid with short bristles, paler beneath ; nerves 3—5, very 
stout below; petioles short, stout, scabrid. Flowers about 3 in. 1m 
diameter, purple, crowded in short peduncled cymes in the upper axils, 
pedicels ahoee stout; bracts 0, or very early deciduous. Calyx-tube 
4 in., very coriaceous, cylindric-campanulate, covered with scattered 
fattened bristles which pass into short setose appressed simple or 2-fid 
scales below the mouth; lobes 5, broadly oblong, obtuse, apiculate, 
ciliate, deciduous. Petals (young) orbicular, glabrous. Anthers of 
larze stamens }in., as long as their connectives, appendage shortly 
produced in front, 2-lobed; connective of smaller anthers short, 2- 
auricled at the base. Ovary 10-ribbed, bristly at the very tip only ; 
style stout, curved, stigma truncate. 
Mozamb. Distr. Mount Chiradaura, alt. 2000 ft., on the Manganya range, Meller! 
(Sept. 1861.) 
18. D. Barteri, Hook.f. Shrubby, sparsely strigillose with short 
appressed bristles; branches terete; branchlets obtusely 4-gonous. 
Leaves shortly petioled, 8-4 in. by 14-1? in., oblong or elliptic or 
lanceolate-oblong, acute, base obtuse or rounded or subcordate, ciliate- 
serrulate, 3-nerved, equally minutely strigillose on both surfaces ; 
petiole $in. Flowers 23 in. in diameter, in terminal few-flowered 
paniculate cymes; peduncles short; pedicels strigillose. Calyx-tube 
4 in., ovoid, densely strigillose or hispid, and covered with stellately 
arranged bristles surrounded at the top by 5 erect appendages with stel- . 
lately bristly tips; lobes 5, equalling the tube, strigillose at the back, very 
broad, large, deciduous, obcordate, with one lobe obliquely expande 
into a membranous ascending wing, tip thickened and_ bristly. Petals 
very large, obovate, ciliate. Amnthers } in., linear-subulate, incurved, 
shorter than the very slender connective which is 2-spurred at the base 1 
front; connectives of smaller stamens half as lone as the anthers, ?- 
tubercled in front. Ovary-tip conic, deeply 5-lobed, hispid, crowne 
with 5 oblong hispid appendages; style slender, stigma truncate. 
Upper Guinea. Prince’s Island, Barter! 
19. D. eximia, Hook. f. Shrubby, densely clothed with villous 
pubescence. Stem stout, woody, much branched, terete, obtusely = 
angled and branches furfuraceously pubescent with substellate scales 
and hairs. Leaves 3-5 in. by 1-1} in., coriaceous, ovate or oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, often recurved, quite entire or crenulate, 5-nerved, 
base obtuse or cordate, equally densely appressedly villous on both sur- 
faces, sometimes obscurely silky; petiole stout, }-l in. Flowers 12 
terminal stout branched panicles, 2-2 in. in diameter, shortly pedi- 
celled; bracts ovate or orbicular, acute or obtuse, shorter than the 
calyx, strigillose on the back, very deciduous. Calyx-tube 4 12+ 
broadly ovoid, hispidulous and densely clothed with long fascicled sub- 
appressed bristles; tip with elongated bristly appendages round the 
mouth ; lobes as long as the tube, very variable, usually lanceolate, 
densely pubescent, bristly or not, deciduous. Petals broadly obovate, 
