76 ICONES PLANTARUM. 
Piate 1094. 
OPISTHOCENTRA CLIDEMIOIDES, Hook. /. 
MELASTOMACES. 
O. clidemioides, Hook. f. in Benth. and Hook.f. Gen. Plant. i. 749. 
AB. North Brazil, near San Gabriel da Cachoeira on the Rio Negro, 
June, 1852, R. Spruce (n. 2046). 
Fruticulus v. herba basi lignosa, glabra, ramulis elongatis ‘gracilibus 
tus i is. oll. 
longa, late elliptico-ovata, acuminata, membranacea, 3-nervia, nervis trans- 
versis laxe reticulatis, petiolo 1-2 poll. longo ; juniora late viridia, seriebus 
2 macularum albarum utringue coste notata. Cyme pulverer, axillares, 
re. £7 
ovata, acuta. Capsule apice dehiscentes, secus rachin cymze incrassatam 
Fig. 1. Calyx. 2. Larger stamen. 8. Smaller stamen. 4. Fruiting-cyme :—all but 
Jig. 4 magnified. 
Pirate 1095. 
PHYLLACANTHUS GRISEBACHIANUS, Jlook. /. 
RuBIACER. 
Phyllacanthus, Hook. f. gen. nov.—Flores hermaphroditi, cum _pedi- 
cello non articulati. Calycis minuti tubus turbinatus ; limbus brevis, cupu- 
laris, 4-lobus, persistens, lobis subulatis. Corolla cylindraceo-campanulata, 
a i i iu 
coriacea, fauce 
iscus annularis. arium 
* are; stylus filiformis, superne compressus, stigmate lineari, apice acuto 
meurvo; ovula numerosa, placentis 2 parietalibus 2 seriatim inserta, non 
immersa. cca parva, ovoideo-globosa, crasse coriacea, 1- v. 2-locularis, 
polysperma. Semina numerosa, horizontalia, sub-2-seriata, verticaliter com- 
pressa, testa crassiuscula, cellulosa, albumine dense carnoso ; embryo parvus, 
cotyledonibus ovatis, radicula tereti hilo proxima.—Frutex glaberrimus, 
aphylius, rigid ini i 
