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* CENTRADENlA rosea. 

 Hose-coloured Centradenia. 



OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 

 Nat. ord. Melastomack^. 



CENTRADENIA. G. Bon. Cahjx tubo subtetragono-campanulato, 

 libei'O, limbi quadripartiti laciniis late triangularibus, acutis. Corollce pe- 

 tala 4, calycis fauci inserta, ejusdem laciniis alterna, obovata. Stamina 8, 

 cum petalis inserta, alterna iisdem opposita minora ; antherce ellipticse, uni- 

 porosse, majorcs connective in calcar elongato-cuneatum, minores in appen- 

 dicem glanduUtformem productse. Ovarium liberum, vertice setarum verti- 

 cillo simplici, quadriloculare, loculis multiovulatis. Stylus brevis ; stigma 

 subcapitatum. (Japsula calyce vestita quadrilocularis, loculicide quadrivalvis. 



Semina plurima, clavato-elliptica, echinata, umbilico basilari. SufFrutex 



mexicanus ; ramis tetragonis, pilosis, foliis oppositis, altera minimo, altera 

 multa majore, ramum ex axilla explicante, oblongo-lanceolatis, acutis, valde 

 incequilateris, integerrimis, ciliatis, membranaceis, triplinerviis, racemis axilla- 

 ribus paucijtoris. Endlicher Genera, no. G178, 



C. rosea ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis valde ina^quilateris, racemis subcorymbosis 

 terminalibus foliis supremis longioribus, petalis ovario duplo longioribus. 



A pretty greenhouse half shrubby plant, introduced from 

 Mexico by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., Nurserymen of 

 Exeter, by whom it was sent in flower to the Horticultural 

 Society in January last. 



When allowed to blossom quietly in a cool greenhouse it 

 forms a deep green bush, studded all over with gay flesh- 

 coloured stars ; but as the petals easily fall, the plant does 

 not bear travellino- well. 



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It is a soft-wooded species, growing a foot or so high in 

 sandy peat, and striking readily from cuttings. As far as we 



■^ Apparently thus called in allusion to the glandular appendage of 

 the anthers ; from KiVTpov a spur, and aSr]v a gland. 



