Lecythideo.] LXVII. MYRTACEJE; . $95 
limbo ante anthesin elauso, per anthesin profunde 2-fido, lobis reflexis, demum infra dis- 
. cum circumscisso, cum. is staminibusque deciduo. Petala 5, calyci cirea discum in- 
serta, imbrieata, reflexa. Stamina perplurima, diséo annulato calyois tubo adnato oo- 
seriatim inserta, filamentis liberis v. basi brevissime connatis; anthers reniformes, fere 
.annulares, quasi 1-loculares, rima longitudinali dehiseentes (2-loculares loculis dorso appo- 
sitis apice confluentibus ?). Ovarium superum, 3-loculare; stylus filiformis, apice breviter 
3-fidus, lobis tenuibus acutis apice minute stigmatosis; ovula in loculis 2 (v. interdum 1), 
e basi loculi ereeta. Fructus non visus, verisimiliter indehiseens, Ovárium post anthesin 
paullo auctum, earnosulum, tomentellum, calycis basi persistente cinctum.—A rbor. . Folia 
versus apices ramulorum alterna, integerrima, obovato-oblonga, retusa, mucrone revoluto, 
coriacea, impunctata, pennivenia, venis primariis parallelis: prominentibus, venulis trans- 
versis. Stipule 0. Flores majuseuli, albi, odorati, pedunculis 1-floris ad nodos fasci- 
culatis. Bractezm ad nodos et bracteole versus apicem pedunculi parvi, squamiformes. 
Species 1, G'uians Britanniore ineola.—Genus fructu ignoto quoad affinitates valde dubium... Olim 
juxta Ternsiremiaceas anomalas positum, recedit disco staminifero calyci adnato. Myríaceis Lecy- . 
thideis quodammodo aecedit, sed ovarium omnino superum. : 
76. Fropiera, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 1. t. 1.—Calycis tubus brevis, explanatus, 
ab ovario liber; lobi 5, orbieulati, subimbricati. Petala 5, perigyna, imbricata. Stamina 
10, disco perigyno inserta, filamentis subulatis incurvis liberis ;. anthere basifixe, loculis 
dorso appositis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Ovarium superum, 3-loculare;. stylus 
brevis, stigmate 3-lobo patente ; ovuia in loeulis oo, placentis subpeltatis oo-seriatim affixa. 
Bacca globosa, basi calyce stipata, stylo persistente coronata, 3-locularis. Semina oo, 
minima, exalbuminosa, testa crustacea cancellata; embryo rectus, carnosus ; cotyledones 
plano-convexs, radieula longiores.—A rbuscula. Folia alterna, integerrima, coriacea, pen- 
nivenia, pellueido-punctata. Flores parvi, pedieellati, ad axillas fasciculati.v. breviter 
racemosi. Bractes minutse; braeteolas non vidimus. 
Species1, Mauritiana.—Genus valde anomalum, Myríaceis accedere videtur habitu, foliis punctatis, 
inflorescentia, calyce, petalis, staminum insertione aliisque notis, a plerisque tamen generibus nor- 
malibus insigniter differt foliis alternis, staminibus definitis, ovario supero et stigmate 3-fido. : 
Og»o LXVIII. MELASTOMACEZE. 
Endl. Gen. 1205 ; Lindl Veg. Kingd. 731; Naudin in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3. xii. ad xviii.; Triana 
: in Bull. Congr. Internat. Amsterdam, 466. 
Flores regulares; hermaphroditi. Calycis tubus liber v. septis longitudinaliter v. partim 
v. toto ambitu ovario adnatus ; limbus truncatus lobatus v. calyptriformis, lobis deciduis 
v. persistentibus, ssepe dorso tuberculis dentibusve aecessorüis instructis, imbricatis rarius 
.subvalvatis. Petalatot quot lobi calycis, ore limbi inserta, interdum obliqua, rarissime basi 
cohzrentia, imbricata. Corona membranacea v. corigcea, inter petala et stamina interdum 
obvia. Stamina'petalis numero squalia v. seepius:dupla et cum iis inserta, ]-seriata, recta 
inclinata v. declinata, sequalia v. alterna minora v. rudimentaria ; filamenta varia, glabra v. 
glandulosa, sestivatione geniculatim inflexa. 4n/Aere 2-loculares, basifixz, apice 1- rarius 
2.poross, rarissime 2-rimosee ; connectivum sepe incrassatum, basi simplex v. productum, 
antice v. postice appendicibus subulatis ealeariformibus setiformibus auriculiformibus 
v. tuberouliformibus instructum. Pollen minutissimum v. oblongum. Ovarium 2—o0-locu- 
Jare, v. septis in Memecyleis evanidis 1-loeulare, vertice tumido angulato v. varie exsculnto, 
glabro setoso v. dentato. Stylus terminalis, simplex, rectus v. declinatvus; stigina punc- 
üforme truncatum v. capitatum, simplex v. lobatum. | Ovula sepissirne indefinita, minuta, 
in Memecyleis Miconiisque perpaucis definita, anatropa ; placentz in Melastomeis ab angulo 
. interiore loculorum horizontales tumids, in .4stronieis:a basi loculi v. parietibus ejus affixe 
adscendentes, in Memecyeis placenta centralis ovulis verticillatjs. Fructus tubo calycis 
inclusus, rarissime seimiexsertus, capsularis v. baceatus, irregulariter ruptus v. valvis locu- 
licide dehiscens. Semina in generibus polyspermis minuta, cuneata pyramidata cochleata 
