Tab. 5455. 



MICRANTHELLA Candollei 

 De Candolles Micranthella. 



Nat. Ord. Melastomace.,e. — Decandria Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Mickanthella, Naud. Flos pentamerus. Calycis campanulati 

 vel oblongi denies acuti, persistentes. Petala obovata, apice rotundata, ciliolata. 

 Stamina 10, parura insequalia, conformia, antheris lineari-subulatis aut oblongis 

 1-porosis, connectivo infra loculos magis mirmsve producto et in insertione fila- 

 menti ssepius bitesticulato. Ovarium basi adherens, 5-loculare. Stylus filifor- 

 mis, stigmate punctiformi. Capsula 5-valvis; semina cocldeata. — Herbae vel 

 suffrutices austro-Americani et Mexicani, seepius ramosi, varie pilosi, micranthi et 

 submicrantJii ; foliis petiolatis ovatis ovatove-oblongis ; floribus paniculatis aut 

 glomeratis, mmquam cernuis, purpureis albisflavis aut aurantiacis* Naud. 



Micranthella (Chsetogastroideaef) Candollei; fruticosa, ferrugineo-villosa, pro 

 genere macrophylla, ramis teretibus, foliis petiolatis ovatis acuminatis ob- 

 solete serrulatis vel subintegerrimis 5-nerviis, utraque pagina rufescenti- 

 villosis, paniculis terminalibus brevibus confertifloris et multifioris, flori- 

 bus rubris aut violaceis. Naud. 



Micranthella Candollei. Naud. in Ann. des Sc. Nat. Ser. 3. v. 13. p. 352. 



Ch.etogastra mollis. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 134. 



Ehexia mollis. Bonpl. Rhex. t. 19. 



A very pretty Melastomaceous plant, of which dried specimens 

 only were known in our collections till our zealous horticultural 

 and botanical friend Isaac Anderson Henry, Esq., of Hay Lodge, 

 Trinity, Edinburgh, sent us in May, 1864, from his garden 

 flowering specimens, raised from seeds sent by the Professor 

 Jamieson, of Quito. This latter gentleman had long previously 



* M. Naudiu further observes on this : — "Genus fere omnino artificiale inio et 

 subheterogenum ; Lasiandree, Ckatot/astrse, et Oreocosmo aequaliter afnne, nulli 

 tamen apto conjungenduin. Pnecipui characters in parvitate riorum (si gene- 

 rum proximorum floribus comparentur), inflorescentia et habitu resident." 



t " Antherae oblongse sed non vere subulatse ut in sectione praecedenti (' Ge- 

 numa ), connectivo infra loculos brevissimo et bilobo, aut subnullo." 



July 1st, 1864. 



