macece, published in the Linnean Transactions ; of these about 

 ten have been introduced into cultivation, seven of which are 

 figured in this work ; one (tab. 3766) as a Zasiandra, two as 

 species of Melastoma (tabs. 2337 and 2630), and the re- 

 mainder under their proper generic names. 



Pleroma Gaymmm is one of the least conspicuous of the 

 genus, it is a native of Cuzco, in Peru, where it was dis- 

 covered by the French Botanist and traveller, Claude Gay, 

 and has been since collected by Lechler. The plant here 

 figured was imported by Messrs. Veitch, through their col- 

 lector, Mr. Davies, and flowered with them in October, 1874. 



Desce. A slender branching herbaceous plant, shrubby at 

 the base ; branches tetragonous, covered with appressed 

 minute rigid hairs. Leaves three to four inches long, ovate 

 elliptic-ovate or oblong, acute or acuminate, base acute 

 obtuse or subcordate, both surfaces nearly equally covered 

 with appressed rather silky hairs, 5-nerved, with an intra- 

 marginal shorter nerve; petiole one third to one half inch 

 long. Flotvers one inch diameter, on slender pedicels, collected 

 m small corymbs that are arranged in trichotomously branched 

 terminal panicles. Calyx-tube campanulate, hispid, as long 

 as the subulate-lanceolate lobes. Petals white, suffused with 

 straw-colour towards the base, broadly obovate; anthers 

 yellow. Capsule bristly at the tip, enclosed in the hispid 

 calyx -tube.— J.D. ff. 



Fin;. i. Flower with the petals removed; 2, stamen; :i. ovary:— all enlarged. 



