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setoso coronatum, 5-loculare. Stylus æqualis v. superne le- 
viter incrassatus, apice truncato-dilatatus et stigmatosus. Cap- 
sula calyce inclusa, fere libera, 5-locularis, valvulis 5 loculi- 
cide dehiscens. Semina numerosa, cochleata.—Herba Afri- 
cana, erecta, habitu Chetogastris Americanis approximans. 
l. Dissotis grandiflora, Benth.-—Osbeckia grandiflora, Sm. in 
Rees’ Cycl.—DC. Prod. 3. p. 143.—Melastoma elongatum, 
Don, in Mem. Wern. Soc.—DC. i. c. p. 147.—Sierra Leone, 
Don; and apparently the same species in Heudelot’s Sene- 
gambian collection. 
die ex Don tuberosa. Caules stricti, parum ramosi, I-14- 
pedales. Bractee scarioso-membranacez, calyce multo bre- 
viores. Calycis tubus 4 lin. longus, squamis vix seriatis ; 
laciniæ 3 lin. longe, anguste oblonge, rigidule subscariose, 
margine ciliolatz, apice stellato-setose. Flores ampli. An- 
therarum majorum loculus fere 5 lin. longus, connectivo 
semipollicari sustensus. è ; 
The very long connectivum and dissimilar anthers are the 
chief points which distinguish this plant from Osbeckia. 
Hererotis, (gen. nov.) 
Calycis tubus ovatus v. oblongus, ovario mediantibus costis 
adnatus v, demum liber ; limbi laciniæ 5, persistentes, mem- 
branaceze, reflexze, apice uni- pluri-setose ; squamz seti- 
fer in tubo sparse, vel sub limbo numero definito (calycis 
laciniarum zquali v. duplo) in annulum disposite v. omnino 
deficientes, Petala 5, ampla. Stamina 10, antheris lineari- 
faleatis subrostratis uniporosis, 5, petalis opposita, connectivo 
elongato filiformi postice in appendices 2 obtusas v. in unam 
bifidam producto, 5, laciniis calycinis opposita, antheris mi- 
Doribus, connectivo brevi postice leviter emarginato. Ovarium 
Setoso coronatum, 5-loculare. Stylus æqualis v. su- 
perne leviter emarginatus, apice truncatus stigmatosus. Cap- 
sula calyce inclusa, fere libera, 5-locularis, valvulis 5 loculicide 
dehiscens, Semina numerosa, cochleata.—Herbe suffruti- 
"ve Africanz, procumbentes v. ascendentes, rarius erecta. 
Flores terminales, solitarii v. capitati. 
