MELASTOMACE^. 43 



pungent, persistent. Petals 5, subovate acute, contorted. Stamens 

 10, subequal (of Microlicia),^ connective shortly produced and aug- 

 mented at base by two short tubercles ; anthers subulate, 1 -porous 

 at apex. Germen 3-celled. Capsule 3-valved ; seeds oblong, straight 

 or curved, punctate. Other characters of Mkvolicia. — An ericoid^ 

 glabrous virgate shrublet; leaves (small) rigid, 6-fariou8, carinate 

 acute pungent; flowers ^ terminal solitary.'* {Central and south, Brazil.^) 



12 ? Cambessedesia DC.^ — Flowers (nearly of Clioetostoma) 5- 

 merous; receptacle ovoid, subglobular or campanulate. Petals 5, 

 pointed, contorted. Stamens 10, either subequal, or unequal ; anthers 

 curved subulate, 1-porous at apex ; connective not produced at base, 

 sometimes dilated-cuneate, sometimes dorsally enlarged to a longi- 

 tudinally adnate stalk. Germen 3-celled, &c., of Chceto stoma ; seeds 

 straight tubercular. — Shrubs or shrublets, glabrous or variously 

 clothed ; twigs erect, 4-gonal ; leaves ^ opposite or subfasciculate, 

 entire or serrate ; flowers ^ either solitary, or in compound some- 

 times corymbiform cymes. {South, Brazil,^) 



13? Lithobium Bong.^" — '^ Flowers 3-merous; receptacle cam- 

 panulate. Sepals 3, rotund very short. Petals 3, orbicular emar- 

 ginate. Stamens 5, equal ; connective of anthers shortly produced 

 at base. Germen half-free globular, 3-celled. Fruit capsular 

 globular, 3-celled ; seeds straight piriform smooth ; hilum lateral. — 

 A dimunitive glandular-pilose herb ; rhizome tuberous ; leaves radicle 

 long petiolate; flowers'^ 1-3, cymose at end of scape." {'North. Brazil,^^) 



1 Like those only whose "basilar tubercles of Ann. ii. 546. 



the connective are short, as if. sincorensis and ^ Frodr. iii. 110 (1828). — Endl. Gen. n. 6185. 



allies. — Naud. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xv. 60. — B, H. 



2 Habit of some Boroniece. Gen. 737, n. 7.— Tri. Mdast. 24, t. 1, fig. 7.— 



3 White, pink or red. Acipetalum Turcz. Bull. Mosc. (1848) i. 577. 



•* A genus differing chiefly in habit from Mi- ' Uftener small, sometimes cricoid or resem- 



croUc'ta (of which perhaps it is better a section). bling some Australian Leguminosce. 



Stenodon suberosus (Naud. loc. cit. ii. 146, t. 3 ; ^ Somewhat resembling those of Oxystemon, 



xii. 215, t. 12) constitutes, with us (^Adansonia, a genus hence apparently very near Marcetia 



xii. 95), a section of this genus, differing from and Microlicia (as C/icBtostoma). 



the rest by its indumentum as much as T^-^OT(5%a ^ Spec. 7, 8. B, ^/ifo;. t. 56, 58, 60.— Mart. 



Lychnitis from its congeners. Flowers some- N>.v. Gen. et Sp. iii. 125, t. 262, 263. — Walv. 



times 6, 7-merous. Ann. ii. 601 {Acipetalum). 



* Spec. 6. Sprexg. Syst. ii. 308 {Rhexia). — ^° Mem. Acad. Petersb. ser. 6, ii. Bot. 140, t. 



Mart. Nov. Qen. et Sp. iii. 128, t. 264, fig. 1.— 8, fig. 2.— B. H. Gen. 736, n. 2.— Tui. Mela^t. 



Naud. loc. cit. xii. 179, 230 {Microlicia).— B. H. 23, t. 1, fig. 1. 



Gen. 737, n. 9 [Stenodon).— Tni. Mela.st. 25, t. 1, " "Purplish." 



fig. 9 {Stenodon). — Walp. Hep. ii. 125 ; v. 699 ; ^2 gp^g^ i L,cordatum Boxg. he. cit. 



