DisSOtis.] LVII. MELAST0MACE2E (HOOKER). 455 



purple. Anthers of long stamens j- in., equalling the connective, which 

 is 2-spurred at the base in front ; connectives o£ longer stamens half 

 the length of the anther, also 2-spurred. Capsule subglobose ; crown 

 5-valved, setose and with an apical crown of bristles. — Osbeckia eximia, 

 Sond. in Linnaea, xxiii. 48 ; Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 518. 



Nile Land. Ukidi Forest, Grant! 



Mozamb. Distr. Manganya hills, alt. 3000 ft., Metier I Kirk ! 



Also a native of the Natal Colony. 



20. D. grandiflora, Benth. in Fl. Nigr. 346. Stem 1-2 ft., ascend- 

 ing from a woody tuberous base, elongate, twiggy, sparingly branched 

 and leafy, 4-gonous, hispid with spreading hairs. Leaves few, 2-3J in. 

 by j-lj in., membranous, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, acute at both 

 ends,3-nerved, with slender cartilaginous serrulate margins, equally 

 softly sparsely hairy on both surfaces ; petiole J— J in., hispid. Flowers 

 2-3 in. in diameter, in terminal simple or branched long-peduncled 

 few-flowered racemes, or 3-nate on slender axillary peduncles ; bracts 

 \ in., concave, suborbicular, membranous, ciliate, deciduous; Calyx- 

 tube J-| in., cylindric, sparsely covered with stipitate stellately or 

 palmately arranged bristles, those round the mouth longer, otherwise 

 glabrous ; lobes linear-oblong, bristly, as long as the tube, tipped with 

 a star of bristles, deciduous. Petals broadly triangular-obovate. An- 

 thers of long stamens J-J in., shorter than the very long connective, 

 which is 2-spurred at the base; anthers of shorter stamens much 

 smaller; connective short, slender, 2-tubercled in front. Style very 

 long, slender. Capsule urceolate, crown strigose, 5-valved, tipped 

 with a fascicle of bristles. — Osbeckia grandiflora, Sm. in Rees Cycl. xxv.; 

 DC. Prod. iii. 143. Melast. elongatum,, Don in Mem. Wern. Soc. iv. 291. 

 DC. I.e. 147. Osbeckiastrum Heudelotiij Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, 

 xiv. 119, and xiii. t. 7.' 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelim ! Senegambia, Heudelot I 



8. AMPHIBLEMMA, Naud. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. 



i. 754. 



Calyx-tube turbinate oblong or campanulate, produced beyond the 

 ovary ; limb dilated, membranous, 5-toothed, deciduous. Petals 5, 

 oblong or obovate. Stamens 10, very unequal ; longer anthers linear- 

 subulate, connective elongate, arcuate, with an anticous appendage 

 at the base, and sometimes a spur behind; shorter anthers with the 

 connective rarely produced. Ovary 5-celled, top hollowed out, 5- 

 angled, with 5 facets that have membranous margins. Capsule turbi- 

 nate, 5-celled, 5-valved at the top, which is crowned by 5 flat scales. 

 Seeds minute, obovoid; hilum basilar, raphe produced beyond the 

 nucleus into a broad appendage. — Glabrous or pubescent tropical 

 West African herbs or small shrubs. Leaves long-petioled, mem- 

 branous, ovate, acuminate, serrulate, 5-nerved. Flowers in simple or 

 branched scorpioid cymes ; small or rather large. 



