Nesca.]| MELASTOMACE (Sond.) a 
lanceolate, bluntish, with auriculate-cordate base ; peduncles amllary, 
solitary, 1-2-flowered, as long as the leaves ; calyx 12-striated; petals 
6; stamens 12. | 
Has. Aapjesriver, Oct., Burke, Zeyher, 542, near Ladysmith, _W. T. Gerrard / 
(Herb. D., Sd.) 
Stems herbaceous, 3-4 inches long, erectish, at length nearly smooth. Leaves 
erect, 3-4 lines long, 1} line wide. Pedicels at the base 2-bracteolate. Cal: 
2 lines long, 12-toothed. Petals purplish-red. Stamens unequal, glabrous as 
style. Capsule oblong, twice shorter than the style. [The upper leaves are often 
alternate, W.H.H.] i 
Ill. NESZA, Comm. 
Calyx hemispherically-campanulate, bractless at the base, 8-12-lobed ; 
the inner 4 or 6 lobes erect, the outer or those from the sinus spread- 
ing and horn-formed. Petals 4-6, alternating with the erect lobes. 
Stamens 8-12, nearly equal. Ovary sessile, almost globose, 4-celled. 
Capsule covered by the calyx. Seeds minute, wingless. DC. Prod. 3, 90. 
Endl. Gen. n. 6147. 
Herbaceous plants. Leaves lanceolate or oblong, nearly sessile, obtuse or acute. 
Peduncles longish, 3-flowered or capitate-manyflowered at the apex, with 2 larger 
bracts and 4 minute ones at the origin of the pedicels. Name from Nesea, in 
mythology, a sea-nymph. 
1. N. floribunda (Sond.) ; stem herbaceous, erect ; branches pubes- 
cent with spreading hairs; leaves opposite, sessile, oblong, or lanceolate 
appressed-pubescent, at length subglabrous ; flowers capitate ; peduncles 
pubescent, as long or longer than the many-flowered capitula. Toly- 
peuma floridum, H. Meyer. 
Has. On the Omblasriver, near Port Natal, Drege. April. (Herb. Sd., D.) 
Branches erect-spreading, terete. Leaves quite entire, 14 inch long, 4 lines broad, 
others 1 inch long, 5—6 lines. broad. Peduncles in the axils of the upper leaves, 
flowering shorter than in fruit. Capitulum at the base, with 2 ovate-acuminate, 
pubescent, leafy bracts, a little longer than the heads. The bracts at the base of 
the pedicels (not at the calyx) linear-ciliate at the apex, shorter or nearly as long as 
the calyx. Tube of the campanulate calyx glabrous, 1 line long, with 5 connivent, 
short, subtriangular, and § erect, subulate, ciliate teeth. Style exserted, flexuous. 
Petals not seen. 
OrpEr LXV. MELASTOMACEZ. 
(By W. SonpDER.) 
Flowers perfect, reguwar. Calyx-tube enclosing the ovary, either 
quite adnate to it, or attached by its ribs to the ovary, leaving inter- 
spaces, or rarely quite free ; limb 4-6-parted or subentire, with valvate 
estivation. Petals inserted at the summit of the calyx-tube, alternate 
with its lobes, expanded, shortly clawed, twisted in estivation. Sta- 
mens inserted with the petals, twice their number, either all perfect or 
those opposite the petals abortive ; filaments bent inwards in estiva- 
tion; anthers terminal, 2-celled, (hidden during estivation in the 
interstices between the calyx and ovary), almost always opening by 
terminal pores ; the connective most frequently prolonged downwards 
below the cells and articulated with the filament. Ovary either free or 
adnate, plurilocular ; ovules numerous, on axile placentz, anatropous. 
