( 4007 ) 



Pleroma Benthamianum. Mr. Bentham's 



Pleroma. 



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Class and Order. 

 Decandria Monogynia. 



( Nat. Ord. — Melastomace^e. ) 



Generic Character. 



CaL tubus ovatus, junior bracteis 2 deciduis involutus, 

 lobi 5 decidui. Pet. 5 obcordata. Stam. 10. Fitamenta 

 pilosa v. glabra. Antherce elongates basi arcuatae, coimec- 

 tivo stipitiformi basi breve biauriculato. Ovarium calyci 

 adnatum, apice setosum. Capsula baccata subsicca 5-locu- 

 laris. Semina cochleata. — Frutices Australi- Americani, 

 scepissime setis appressis scabri. Folia subrigida, b-nervia. 

 F lores anvpli purpurei, in racemum paniculumve dispositi. 



Specific Character and Synonym. 



V i,erom a * Benthamianum; rarnis alato-tetragonis petiolis- 

 que adpresse villosis, foliis petiolatis oblongo-lanceo- 

 latis basi rotundatis vel vix cordatis acutis 9-nerviis in- 

 tegerrimis supra setis minimis asperis subtus adpresse 

 sericeo-villosis, panicula terminali glanduloso-pilosa, 

 calycis glanduloso-setosi tubo ovato-globoso lobis ro- 

 tundatis ciliatis, filamentis glanduloso-pilosulis, stylo 

 villoso. 



Pleroma Benthamianum. Gardn. Herb. Bras. n. 410. 



"■"« ui uuncicu iu •-■•■^ country. 



The plant, which was brought home by myself from the 

 Organ Mountains, flowered in the autumn of 1842, in the 



Glasgow 



* So named by Mr. D. Don, from Watft^m, fulness, probaUjr from the 



copious seeds in the cells of the iVuit. 



