Dissotis.] LVII, MELASTOMACE (HOOKER). 455 
purple. Anthers of long stamens 4 in., equalling the connective, which 
is 2-spurred at the base in front; connectives of longer stamens half 
the length of the anther, also 2-spurred. Capsule subglobose ; crown 
d-valved, setose and with an apical crown of bristles.—Osbeckia eximia, 
Sond. in Linniea, xxiii. 48; Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 518. 
Nile Land. Ukidi Forest, Grant! 
Mozamb. Distr. Manganya hills, alt. 3000 ft., Meller! Kirk! 
Also a native of the Natal Coluny. 
20. D. grandiflora, Benth. in Fl. Nigr. 346. Stem 1-2 ft., ascend- 
ing from a woody tuberous base, elongate, twiggy, sparingly branched 
and leafy, 4-gonous, hispid with spreading hairs. Leaves few, 2-33 in. 
by $-1} in., membranous, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, acute at both 
ends, 3-nerved, with slender cartilaginous serrulate margins, equally 
sottly sparsely hairy on both surfaces; petiole }—1in., hispid. Flowers 
2-3 in. in diameter, in terminal simple or branched long-peduncled 
few-tlowered racemes, or 3-nate on slender axillary peduncles ; bracts 
2 in., concave, suborbicular, membranous, ciliate, deciduous. Calyx- 
tube 4—$in., cylindric, sparsely covered with stipitate stellately or 
palmately arranged bristles, those round the mouth longer, otherwise 
glabrous ; lobes linear-oblong, bristly, as long as the tube, tipped with 
a star of bristles, deciduous. Petals broadly triangular-obovate. An- 
thers of long stamens 4—} in., shorter than the very long connective, 
Which is 2-spurred at the base; anthers of shorter stamens much 
smaller; connective short, slender, 2-tubercled in front. Style very 
long, slender, Capsule urceolate, crown strigose, 5-valved, tipped 
With a fascicle of bristles.—Osbeckia grandiflora, Sm. in Rees Cycl. xxv.; 
DC. Prod. iii. 143,  Melast. elongatum, Don in Mem. Wern. Soc. iv. 291. 
DC. 1.c.147.  Osbeckiastrum Heudelotii, Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 3, 
xlv. 119, and xiii. t. 7. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Senegambia, Heudelot? 
5. AMPHIBLEMMA, Naud.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. 
i. 754, 
Calyx-tube turbinate oblong or campanulate, produced beyond the 
Ovary; limb dilated, membranous, 5-toothed, deedadal. Petals 5, 
oblong or obovate. Stamens 10, very unequal ; longer anthers linear- 
subulate, connective elongate, arcuate, with an anticous appendage 
at the base, and sometimes a spur behind; shorter anthers with the 
connective rarely produced. Ovary 5-celled, top hollowed out, 9- 
angled, with 5 facets that have membranous margins. Capsule turbi- 
nate, 5-celled, 5-valved at the top, which is crowned by 5 flat scales. 
Seeds minute, obovoid; hilum basilar, raphe produced beyond the 
nucleus into a broad appendage.—Glabrous or pubescent tropical 
West African herbs or small shrubs. Leaves long-petioled, mem- 
branous, ovate, acuminate, serrulate, 5-nerved. Flowers in simple or 
branched scorpioid cymes ; small or rather large. 
