Tas. 6647. 
BREDIA HIRSUTA. 
Native of Japan. 
Nat. Ord. Metastomace®.—Tribe OxysPorER. 
Genus Brepia, Blume; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl, vol. i. p. 753.) 
Brepia hirsuta; gracilis, ramis petiolisque rufo-brunneis pubescentibus et patentim 
hispido-pilosis, foliis ovatis acutis 5=7-nerviis basi obtusis rotundatis v. cordatis 
ciliatis utrinque sparse setulosis pilis albidis, supra saturate viridibus, subtus 
pallidis, petiolo longiusculo, cymis terminalibus laxe paniculatis multifloris, 
pedunculo ramis pedicellisque gracilibus rufo-brunneis pubescentibus sparse 
setulosis, floribus roseis, calyce turbinato, lobis parvis triangularibus recurvis, 
petalis orbiculari-ovatis subacutis, antheris majoribus rubris curvis basi antice 
2-tuberculatis, minoribus pallidis rectis. 
B. hirsuta; Blume Mus. Bot. p. 24, fiz. 4; Miquel Ft. Ind. Bat. vol. i. part i. 
p. 537; Franch. et Savat. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. ii. p. 369; Regel Gartenft. 
1870, p. 193, t. 655. 
The genus Bredia is one of the very few of the large 
tropical family of Melastomacee that inhabit temperate 
regions. It contains only two known species, of which 
the present is one; it is a native of Japan, or supposed to 
be so; for, according to Franchet and Savatier, it is only 
known there in gardens, where it forms a small shrub. 
Descr. A small shrub two to three feet high, with slender 
spreading branches of a red-brown colour, which, as well 
as the petioles, are finely pubescent and clothed with long 
Spreading bristly red hairs, Leaves three to four inches 
long, ovate, acute, rather membranous, five- to seven-nerved, 
with many transverse veins, base rounded obtuse or 
shortly cordate, margin obscurely sinuate or quite even, 
ciliate, upper surface dark green, under pale blueish green, 
both with scattered white bristles; petiole one to one 
and a half inches long. Flowers half an inch in diameter, 
In erect terminal lax panicled cymes four to six inches 
high ; branches, peduncles, and pedicels red-brown, pubes- 
SEPTEMBER lst, 1882. 
