MELASTOMACE^. 65 



connective (sometimes thick) at base often elongate or simple, exap- 

 pendiculate {Charianthus), anteriorly variously appendiculate, poste- 

 riorly bare or appendiculate (Platy centrum). Germen more or less 

 sometimes quite (Conostegia, C karianthus) adnsiie to receptacle, some- 

 times by means of more or less complete septa continuous with it 

 between inflexed anthers, at vertex convex or more rarely concave 

 {Calycogonium), glabrous, setose or hirsute, at apex dentate, rather 

 flat or tubular ; style erect, oftener slender, at apex capitate or discoid 

 stigmatose ; cells 2-6, oftener go -ovulate ; ovules rarely few or 2, 3. 

 Fruit baccate, coriaceous or fleshy, finally opening irregularly (not 

 valvately dehiscent) ; seeds obovoid, obcuneate or obpyramidal, rarely 

 curved or subcochleate. — Trees or shrubs, erect or climbing, glabrous 

 or with various indumentum ; leaves sessile or generally petiolate, 

 entire, dentate or serrate ; flowers ^ in terminal or more rarely lateral 

 or axillary racemes, more or less compound ramose, sometimes sparsely 

 divided, glomerulate, cymose or 1-3-nate (Pachyanthus), sessile or 

 oftener pedicellate, sometimes by abortion 1 -lateral, 1 -seriate. 

 (Both trop. Americas.^) 



33 ? Ansectocalyx Tri.^ — Flowers nearly ofMiconia, rather large; 

 receptacle subcampanulate. Sepals 5, 6, unequal, elongate, subulate. 

 Petals 5, 6, obtuse, contorted. Stamens 12. Germen free, 5, 6-celled 

 and other characters of Miconia, Fruit . . . ? — A hirsute or for the 

 most part ferruginous- sericeous shrub ; leaves oblong petiolate, den- 

 ticulate, 5-7-nerved, hairy beneath; flowers^ collected in short 

 capituhform spikes ; sericeous bracts rather longer than flowers, 

 connivent in involucre, imbricate.^ [Venezuela,^) 



3-4? Catocoryne Hook, f.^ — ^'Flowers 5-merous ; receptacle 



^ Rather large, moderate or very small, red, tinea), 706 (Octomeris), 715, 718 {Becaraphe), 



pink, white or yellow. 722 {Oxymeris, Cremaniwn, Martigia) ; Ann. ii. 



2 Spec, about 30. Aubl. Guian. t. 170 {Mela- 609 ; iii. 888 {Chitonia), 889 {Sarcomeris, Tetra- 



stoma).—^. Melast. t. 1, 6-10, 12-15, 18, 19, 20- zpgia) ; iv. 695 {Calycogonium), 700 {Chalybea), 



24, 31-34, 41, 42, 44, 46, 48, 51, 54, 57.— Rich. 702 {Conostegia), 705, 751 {CyanophyUum), 770 



Act. Soc. Rist. Nat. Par. 109.— Mart. Nov. Gen. (Octomeris), 11'6 {Leaudra, Tschudya), 780 {Cha- 



etSp. iii. t. 276 {Graffenrieda), 282 {Clidemia), rianthus). 



283 {Leandra), 285 (Oa^^we;-**).- Benth. Sulph. ^ Ex B. H. Gen. 765, n. Ill ; Melast. 97. 



t. 34 {Clidemia).—llooTi.. Kew Journ. i. t. 12 '•u-^jii^e." 



{Tetrazygia) ; Bot. Mag. t. 4383 {Tetrazygia).— * Gen. hence very near Tococtty thence to Mi- 



A. Hicji. FL Cub. t.i^ {Calycogonium). —Gris-eh. conia, differing from both chiefly in bracteate 



Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 249 {Clidemia), 250 ( Tschndya), capitules and unequal sepals. 



261 {Creman'mm), 263 {CJiarianthus); Fl.JFri yht. ^ Spec. 1. A. bracteosaTm. loc.clt. — Octomeris 



Cub. 183,— Walp. Rep. ii. 137 {Leandra), 140 bracleosa Naud. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xvii. 379. 



[Jucimda), 146, 147 {Oxyntcris), v. 698 {Angus- 7 Qe.. 765, n. 109.— Tki. Melast. 134. 



