290 XLIX. MELASTOMACE. 
down in the bud; anthers 2-celled, opening in 1 or 2 pores at the top or very ` 
rarely in longitudinal slits, and before flowering their tips are usually contained ` 
in the cavities between the ovary and calyx , the connective often variously ex- 
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a minute or capitate or peltate stigma. Ovules sever e 2 re ; 
eg 
as many valves as there are cells. Seeds usually numerous and small, mi: * 
or eochleate (i.e. curved somewhat like an.univalve shell), without albumen ; 1 
testa coriaceous, crustaceous or membranous. Embryo straight or curved; ` 
oo agi plano-convex or thick and variously folded ; radidle short.—Herbs — 
s ely i i : 
; 
or in 7 n @ \-nerved and penniveined, entire or rarely serrulate. Pura 
A b Order, chiefly American, and most abundant within the tropies, a consideralle 
umber also in tropical and subtropical Asia, especially in the Eastern ‘Archipelago, anda — 
fow i in kiga us and southern Africa. The four Australian genera are all Asiatic pa three of ` q 
Tribe I, Osbeckieze pag es with 3, 5 or more ribs. Ant thers cuu 
erminal pore. Ovary more or less adherent, except ts convex or conical summit, 3 
6-celled. Fruit capsular or ds pulpy. Seeds cochlea 
Mn all similar and equal or nearly so. Fruit T d opening in 
ves, 
Calyx-lobes 4, rarely 5, with bristle-like appendages dil them. 
Anthers without any or scarcely any appendage at the LA 
Calyx-lobes 5 or 6, without a — between them. Mi ied with ius 
* We eS 2-lobed inflected appendage at the base . E n 
nthers alternately smaller or rac Fruit LE or ul " sto), 
bursting irregularly P T 8. MELA 1 
e ; 
. TRIBE E II. Memecyleze.— Leaves with tes midrib prominent, the veins ber 1 
inconspicuous. atb colle adnate e a much thickened connective, a" d 0 Bei? l 
penes slits or ae Ov ~ T l- Leid, with a bei weer? erf — 
1, OSBECKIA, Linn. 
Calyx-tube ovoid globular or urceolate ; lobes or teeth 4 
with appendages between them, which are usually bristle-like, terminati 
a tuft of hairs. Petals obovate. Stamens twice as SR as Sei 
e 
R without any or scarcely any appendage at the base of the kee" 
ary 4- or 3*celled, ue with bristles. Fruiting-calyx = 
shat the fall of the lobes ; capsule opening at the top in as man 
there were cells to the ovary. .Seeds coehleate.— Herbs Denger d , 
shrubs. Leaves sessile or petiolate, 3-, 5- or 7-nerved. es we: usually 
nal, in clusters or short racemes, often forming leafy pan à 
Calyx-tube often more or less covered with bristles or go te scales S 
