458 LVII. MELASTOMACEE (HOOKER). [ Calvoa, 
membranous, ovate, subcordate, acute, obtusely denticulate, 5-nerved, 
hairs on both surfaces scattered, spreading ; petiole 3-1}in. Flowers 
solitary or few in terminal corymbs, subsessile. Calyx-tube turbinate 
or obconic, strigose ; limb sinuately 5-lobed. Petals broad. Anthers 
unequal, linear-oblong, obtuse; filaments short, flattened; connective 
not produced, dilated at the base. Capsule }in., turbinate ; scales 
projecting beyond the calyx-tube. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, at 6000 ft. elevation, Mann! Flowers very im- 
perfect. 
10. SAKERSIA, Hook. f.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 757. 
Calyx-tube hemispheric or campanulate, smooth, glabrous ; limb 
slightly dilated, obscurely 4- rarely 5-lebed, persistent. Petals 4 
rarely 5, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, glabrous. Stamens 8, rarely 10, all 
equal and similar; filaments long; anthers linear-subulate, curved, 
connective much elongate, arcuate, with 2 narrow spheres in front at 
the base, and none behind. Ovary 4- rarely 5-celled, adherent to the 
calyx-tube by as many septa, crown minutely bristly; style filiform, 
stigma simple. Capsule enclosed in the coriaceous calyx-tube ; crown 
smooth, hemispheric, 4- rarely 5-valved. Seeds very numerous, 
élongate, curved, angular, hilum basal; young’, in one species crowned 
with cellular filaments, in the other naked.—Tropical West African 
shrubs or small trees; strigillose with rigid bristles. Leaves 3—9- 
nerved, scabrid. Flowers moderate-sized, in erect, pyramidal, ter- 
minal panicles ; pedicels 2-bracteolate, bracteoles caducous. 
Calyx-tube campanulate. Seeds appendiculate . . . . . . . 1. S. africana. 
Calyx-tube hemispheric. Seeds not appendaged. . . . . . . 2.8. echinulata. 
1. S. africana, Hook. f. A shrub or small tree, 20 ft. Branches 
obtusely 4-angled, together with the petioles, nerves of the leaf, and 
ag substrigose with conical bristle-tipped tubercles; nodes with 
arge bristles. Leaves 3-5 in. by 14—2in., elliptic-oblong or lance0- 
late, acute, 3—5-nerved, obscurely serrulate, scabrid on both surfaces, 
transverse nerves distinct. Panicle ample, pyramidal, 6in. long 4? 
broad. Flowers 4 in. diameter, usually 4-merous, solitary or 3-nate, 
pedicels j—3 in., 2-bracteolate at the base; bracteoles 1—10th in., ovate, 
obtuse, concave, deciduous. Calyx-tube campanulate, } in. Petals 
rose-coloured? Anthers }in., longer than the connective ; filaments 
as long as the anthers. Young seeds with 2—5 cellular hairs at the 
top. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons river, fl. Jan., Mann! 
2. S. echinulata, Huok. f. Branches woody, robust, obtusel 
4-gonous, strigose, with short stout bristles ; nodes much thickene 7 
with long appressed bristles. Leaves not seen. Panicle pyramidal, 
3—5in. long and broad; its peduncle stout, very short (4 in.), prickly; 
rachis and branches stout, terete, smooth, except at the principal nodes 
which are prickly. Flowers 4-merous, solitary or 3-nate, lin. # 
