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40. Meriania Sw.^ — Flowers5-merous;^ receptacle hemispherical, 

 cyathiform or campanulate ; calyx entire or 5-lobed, accessory teeth 

 sometimes 5, free or more or less adnate. Petals oblong or obovate, 

 connivent in spuriously campanulate corolla, free. Stamens 10 ; 

 connective not produced, furnished posteriorly with a simple or spurred 

 (Eumeriama) appendage, sometimes erect, parallel to anther (^Adelo- 

 hotrijs ^), or thick conical enlarged {Axincea *). Germen 3-5-celled, 

 free ; style slender or rather thick (Axincea), at apex stigmatose trun- 

 cate or punctiform. Capsule 3-5-valved ; seeds cuneate, clavate, 

 pyramidal or linear. — Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing (Adelo- 

 hotnjs); leaves petiolate, ovate or oblong, entire or serrate, 3-5-nerved; 

 ■flowers * in terminal or lateral more or less ramosely cymiferous 

 racemes. (Trojj. America.^) 



41. Huberia DC.^ — Flowers 4-merous ; receptacle urceolate, 

 narrowed to neck, sometimes costate alate. Sepals 4, rather broad. 

 Petals 4, longer than calyx, much contorted. Stamens 8, the oppositi- 

 petalous scarcely shorter ; anthers incurved elongate ; cells undulate 

 within ; connective not produced below anthers, furnished externally 

 at base with subulate appendage. Germen free except quite at base, 

 4-celled ; style slender, at apex stigmatose not dilated. Capsule 

 enclosed by indurate receptacle, 4-valved. Seeds oo , sometimes im- 

 bricate, produced on both sides to an elongate wing, or more rarely 

 exalate {Opisthocentra). — Glabrous or viscose shrubs ; leaves opposite 

 petiolate, entire or serrate, coriaceous penninerved ; flowers® generally 

 in 3-flowered cymes, long-stipitate. (Brazil.^) 



1 Fl. Iiid. Oce. ii. 823, t. 15. — DC. Prodr. iii. showy, white, yellow, pink, red or purple. 

 100.— ExDL. Gen. n. 6169.— Naud. Ann.Sa.Nat. ^ Spec, about 45. Aubl. Guian. t. 172 {Mela- 

 sex. 3, xviii. 124, t. 5. — B. H. Gen. 749, n. 56. — stoma).— ^-^ . Prodr. 61 {Rhexia). — Desrx. Diet. 

 Tri. Melast. Qo, t. 5, fig. 55. — Pachymeria Benth. iv. 35 {Melastoma). — B. Rhex. t. 4.— Deless. Ic. 

 PL HarUveg. 1 ZQ.—Adelbertia Meissn. Gen. 114 ; Sel. v. t. 2 {Chaste)i(Ba).—Tv&%. Fl. Ant. t. 61.— 

 Comm. 9,1.— Noto cent rum Naud. loc. cit. xviii. DC. Mem. Melast. 18, t. 3 (Bavi/a). — Griseb. 

 131. — Davi/a Naud. loc. cit. xviii. IZi.-Schwe- Fl. Brit. IF.-Ind. 264 (i)ay^a).— Walp. Rep. ii. 

 rinia Kaust. Fl. Columb. i. 35, t. 18. 117 ; v. 676, 677 [Chastenaa) ; Ann. iv. 783 



2 ^oldiOTa. Pachy)neria 4-merous. (Chastotcea), 785. 



3 DC. Prodr. iii. 127.— Endl. Gen. n. 6207.— ^ Prodr. iii. 165 ; Mem. Melast. t. 10.— Endl. 

 B. H. Gen. 750, n. 57.— Tri. Mtlast. 67, t. 5, Gen. n. 6176.— Naud. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xv. 

 fig. 56.—Sarmentaria Naud. loc. cit. xviii. 140. 336; xvi. t. 25. — B. H. Gen. 748, n. 51. — Tri. 



4 R, et Pav. Prodr. iv. t. 409-413 ; Syst. 122. Melast. 65, t. 5, ^g. 61.—? Opisthocentra Hook. f. 

 — Dox, Mem. TFern. Soc. iv. 319.— DC. Prodr. Gen. 749, n. 54.— Tri. Melast. 65. 



iii. 101. — Endl. Gm. n. 6170. — Naud. loc. cit. ^ White or red, rather large, 



xviii. 123.— B. H. Gen. 749, n. 55.— Tri. Melast. ^ Spec. 3. Presl. Symb. i. 58, t. 37.— Mart. 



68, t. 5, fig. ol.—Chastenaa DC. Prodr. iii. 102. Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. 146, t. 276.— Walp. Rep. ii. 



— E\DL. Gen. n. 6171. — Naud././c. cit. xviii. 119. 118 ; Ann. iii. 887. 

 ^ Uather large, crowded, sometimes large, 



