( 1960 ) 
METROSIDEROS HISPIDA. Roven 
METROSIDEROS. 
Je ee ee eae 
‘Class and: Order. 
Icosanpria Monoeynta. | 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 5-fidus semisuperus. Petala 5. Stamina longissima, 
exserta. Stigma simplex. Caps. 3- vel 4-locularis, : 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Merrosiperos hispida ; foliis oppositis basi cordatis am- 
plexicaulibus, ramulis pedunculis calycibusque hispidis. 
Smith in Linn. Soc. Transact. 3. p.267. HEjusdem Exot. 
Bot.1. p. 81. t.42. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 952. Hort, Kew. 
ed, alt. 3. p. 183. Martyn Mill. Dict. n. 1. 
Merrosipera hirsuta. Bot. Repos. 281. 
MerrosipEeros anomala. Venten. Malm. 5. 
Ancopnora cordifolia. Cav. Ic. 4, 21. t. 338. 
Descr. Stem covered with stiff hairs of a brownish red 
colour. Leaves opposite, cordate-ovate, nearly sessile, veined, 
bordered by a cartilaginous undulate margin. Inflorescence 
subumbellate, terminal. Peduncles long, hispid. Calyx 
connate with the germen, eight or ten ribbed, the alternate 
ribs or angles deeply keeled, segments of the border four or 
‘five, linear. Petals four or five, white, inserted into the 
border of the calyx, alternating with its segments, and 
supported at the back by a ection of the intermediate 
alycine angles, which are dilated into a triangular process 
connate with the petal. Stamens very many, more than twice 
the length of the petals. Filaments white, inserted into the 
margin of the calyx: anthers very pale yellow. Crown of 
the germen broad, flat, white. " Style straight: stigma 
; truncate. 
