46 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Shrublets or herbs, glabrous or pilose ; leaves petiolate ovately oblong, 

 5-7-nerved, oftener serrate; flowers^ sometimes in umbelliform, 

 oftener scorpioid cymes. (Trop. West Africa, Madagascar.^) 



18. Sonerila Eoxb.^ — Flowers 3-merous ; receptacle tubular or 

 turbinate. Sepals 3, short, contorted. Petals 3, alternate, various 

 in form, contrariwise contorted. Stamens 3, alternipetalous, or very 

 rarely 6, the smaller oppositipetalous ; anthers 1, 2 -porous at apex ; 

 cells at base often discrete ; connective not or scarcely produced, 

 sometimes 2-tuberculate. Germen inferior, sometimes free at 

 hollowed apex ; cells 3, alternipetalous ; the 3 margins dilated to a 

 scale ; style slender, truncate or capitate at apex. Capsule enclosed 

 in receptacle, dividing into 3 valves, squamiform at margin ; seeds oo , 

 very various in form, pyramidally clavate, ovoid or reniform ; raphe 

 sometimes rather prominent. — Shrublets or herbs, glabrous or hirsute ; 

 leaves equal or 2-morphous, opposite, entire, or serrulate, 3-5 -nerved ; 

 flowers * in a scapelike scorpioid cymiferous raceme. (Trop, cont, and 

 ins. Asia.^) 



19. Sarcopyramis Wall.^ — Flowers 4-merous; receptacle shortly 

 obpyramidal. Calyx shortly 4- dentate, teeth ciliate. Petals 4, 

 ovately acuminate. Stamens 8, subequal ; anthers ovate, 2-lobed at 

 apex, dehiscing by a pore in the hollow between lobes ; connective 

 produced below anther, slender and posteriorly obtusely spurred at 

 base. Germen adnate to middle of receptacle, 4-locular, 4-lobed at 

 hollowed apex ; style slender, thickening at stigmatose apex. Fruit 

 enclosed in sub -fleshy receptacle, 4-lobed at concave apex and there 

 4-valved ; seeds straight, granular ; hilum basilar. — A simple or 

 sparsely ramose glabrous fleshy herb ; stem 4-gonal ; leaves opposite 



it appears to us only a section of Grnvesia. The Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xv. 319 ; xvi. t. 18. — B. H. 



stamens either of Eugravesia, or nearly of Am- Gen. 753, n. 72. — Tri. Melast. 75, t. 6, fig. 72. — 



phiblemma, and the seed where known (e. g. of Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 529. 

 FeprecelIamacyophi/lla'NAVD.)qu.iteoi Graveftia; ^ Qftener pink, showy. 



the white tumid aril of the raphe produced be- ^ Spec, about 50. Royle, 111. t. 45. — Wall. 



yond the hilum. Fl. As. Far. ii. 202.— Bexn. PI. Jav. Far. t. 44. 



1 Pink (or yellow ?), often beautiful. —Wight, III. t. 94 ; Ic. t. 995.— Miq. Fl. Ind.- 



^ Spec, about 12. Tent. MalmaU.t. 14 {Mela- Bat. i. p. 1, 561. — Korth, FerA. Nat. Gesch.Bot. 



stoma).— jyC.Prodr . in. 147 (Melastoma) .—Sms t. 52, 54. — Thw. Fnum. PI. Zeyl. 107.— Bedd. 



Bot. Mag. t. 904, 5473 {Melastoma). — Hook. Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 217. — Bot. Mag. i. ^^1^, 



Bot. Mag. t. 5524 {Btrtolonia).—V'EU. Jard. Fl. 5026, 5104, 5354.— Walp. Fcp. ii. 122 ; v. 684 ; 



t. 1695 {BertoloHia).—ljOTiJ). Bot. Cab. i. 984 Ann. i. 296 ; ii. 600 ; iii, 884. 



{Melastoma). —YLoov.. f. OUv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. « Tent. Fl. Nepal. 32, t. 23.— DC. Fro'^r. iii. 



455 {Amphiblemma), ^o1 {Calvoa). — Walp. 485.— Exdl. Gen. n. 6262. — B. H. Gen. 754, n. 



Ann. iii. 822 {Veprecella), 887. 73.— Tri. Melast. 77, t. 5, fig. 74.— Hook. F/. 



» Fl. Ind. i. 376.— Endl. Gen. n. 6192.— Xaud. Ind. ii. 540. 



