MELASTOMACE^. 53 



much contorted. Stamens 8, 2-seriate ; filaments glabrous ; anthers 

 2 -form, much inflexed, vertical in bud ; the oppositipetalous larger 

 subulate, 1 -porous at apex ; connective externally produced at base 

 in a thick subclavate mass ; connective of the shorter (paler) (often 

 sterile) alternipetalous longer and more slender. Germen to middle 

 more or less adnate to receptacle, 4-celled, at vertex setose or villose ; 

 style inserted in depression at top of germen, slender,^ at apex stig- 

 matose not dilated. Fruit capsular, enclosed in receptacle, 4-valved ; 

 seeds oo , curved or cochleate. — Branched sometimes tomentose shrubs 

 or undershrubs ; leaves ovate or lanceolate, 3-7-nerved, entire or 

 serrulate ; flowers ^ terminal, solitary or cymose, often few. {Both 

 trop. ivest. Americas,") 



31. Rhexia L.* — Flowers 4-merous ; receptacle campanulate or 

 urceolate. Sepals 4, 3-angular. Petals 4, obovate. Stamens 8, 

 subequal ; filaments incurved ; anthers elongate obtuse, at apex 

 sometimes dilated 1 -porous ; connective not produced at base, oftener 

 incrassate, posteriorly furnished with short subulate appendage to base. 

 Germen free, 4-celled; style slender, at apex stigmatose truncate. 

 Capsule enclosed in ventricose receptacle, 4-valved ; seeds straight, 

 curved or cochleate, smooth or rough. — Herbs, sometimes subshrubby 

 at base, generally setosely glandular; leaves petiolate, entire or 

 serrulate, 3-nerved ; flowers ^ solitary or cymose. [South-east. North 

 America.^) 



32. Miconia K. and Pa v.' — Flowers generally 4, 5-merous, more 

 rarely 6-8-merous ; receptacle globular, campanulate, sometimes 



* Finally declinate contrariwise to stamens. et Gr. FL N.-Amer. i. 476. — Bot. Mag. t. 968. — 



2 Moderate, pink or violet. Walp. Rep. ii. 126 ; Ann. iii. 869 (part). 



3 Spec, about 20. B. Rhex. t. 3, 16, 18.— De- 7 R. et Pay. Prodr. 60.— DC. Prodr. iii. 171.— 

 LESS. Ic. Set. V. t. 4 — Spreng. Syst. ii. 309 Endl. G'e/?. n. 6258. — l^Axsn. Ann. Sc. Nat. bqt. 

 {Rhexia).— R. et Pav. Fl. Per. iii. t. 380, fig. a 3, xvi. 113.— B. H. Gen. 763, n. 106.— Tri. Me- 

 (Rhexia). — Don, Mem. Wern. Sve. iv. 299 {Jrthro- last. 100. — Cremanium Don, Mem. JFern. Soc. iv. 

 stemma). — Benth. PL Rarttv. 181 {Chcetogastra). 310. — Ghitonia Don, loc. cit. 317 (not Naud.). — 

 — L. Neum. Rev. Hort. (1861) 211. — Schlchtl, Diplochita DC. Prodr. iii. 176. — Hypoxanthus 

 Linncea, xiii. 431 (Rhexia). — Pot. Mag. t. 5132, Rich, (ex DC. loc. cit. 180). — Chen op lewa Rich. 

 5341, 5367, 5506.— Walp. Rep. v. 701 ; Atm. ii. (ex DC. loc. cit. 197).— Cgatanthera Pohl, PI. 

 5r6 ; iv. 808. Bras. Icon. ii. 130, t. lS8.—Sartigia MiQ. Lin- 



* Gen. n. 468.— J. Gen. 330. — Nutt. Gen. i. ncea, xviii. 284, t. 7 (not ^A.vr>.).—Becaraphe 

 243.— DC. Prodr. iii. 121 (part). — Endl. Gen. St:el-d. Flora {lS4:i), 722.— GlossocentronCB.VEQ. 

 n. 6200. — Naud. Attn. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xv. 63. — LimK^a, xx. 111. — Pogonorhynchua Crueg. loc. 

 B. H. Gen. 747, n. 49. — Tri. Melast. 61, t. 5, cit. 107. — Jucunda Cham. Linncea^ ix. 456 (not 

 fig. 48. Benth.) —Chiloporus Naud. loc. cit. iv. 57. — 



^ White or pink, sometimes handsome. Cyanophyllum Naud. loc. cit. xvii. 324. — Octo- 



^ MiCHX. Fl. Bor.-Amer. i. 222. — Pursh. Fl. meris Naud. loc. cit. xvii. 378 (part). — Schizan- 



B r.-Amer. i. 258.— Walt. Fl. Carol. 129.— thera Turcz. Bull. Mosc. (1862) ii. 322. — 



Desvx. Ham. Prodr. 35. — B. Rhex. t. 47. — ToRR. Augustinea A. S.-H. et Naud. Ann. Sc. Nat. 



