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Habitus et foliorum forma H. levis, sed tota planta piloso- 
setosa, calyces breviores, squam:e numerosw setis numerosis 
plumose quarum summee stellatim disposite, lacinie limbi 
longius ciliate. Flores rubri. 
3. Heterotis prostrata, Benth.; caule procumbente strigoso- 
pubescente, folis ovatis oblongisve glabriusculis, floribus 
solitariis, calycis squamis numerosis sparsis ciliatis apice stel- 
lato-setosis, summis cum laciniis calycinis alternantibus.— 
Melastoma prostrata, Schum. et Thonn. Beskr. p. 220.—On 
the Quorra, at Patteh, Vogel; Guinea. 
Rami elongati, pube in parte inferiore fere pulveracea, superne 
strigosa. Folia 1-14-pollicaria, utrinque acutiuscula, mem- 
branacea, trinervia v. rarius 5-nervia, nervis basi petioloque 
tenui strigoso-setosis, ezeterum glabra. Calyces magnitudine 
eorum H. levis, sed obtecti squamis numerosis linearibus 
plumoso-ciliatis. _Petala (ex Vog.) carnea. 
The Melastoma decumbens, Pal. de Beauv. Fl. Ow. et Ben. v. 
l. p. 69. t. 21, or Osbeckia decumbens, DC., is evidently another 
Species of Heterotis, belonging probably to the present section, 
but the details of his figure and description are too vague and 
too little to be relied on to establish the characters satisfactorily 
Without seeing his specimens. 
§. 2. Floribus solitariis v. distinctis intra bracteas parvas bre- 
vissime pedicellatis, calycis squamis 10 sub limbo in annulum 
dispositis.—Cyclostemma. ; 
4. Heterotis antennina, Benth. ; caule decumbente setoso-ci- 
liato, foliis lanceolatis ovatisve, petiolo dilatato longe ciliato, 
floribus paucis distinctis, calycis squamis 10 sub limbo in 
annulum dispositis longe pectinato-ciliatis.—Osbeckia an- 
tennina, Sm. in Rees Cycl.—DC. Prod. 3. p. 143.— Sierra 
ne, Don. a 
Caulis ut videtur humilis, basi decumbens, superne divaricato- 
ramosus, setis longis præsertim ad nodos ciliatus. Folia 1-3- 
pollicaria, supra setis longis hirsuta, subtus glabriora. Flores 
Sepius gemini v. terni, intra bracteas parvas et folia summa 
approximata brevissime pedicellati. Calycis tubus præter 
