MELASTOMACE^. 63 



at vertex, 4-celled ; placentae subbasilar or oftener parietal, ascending, 

 oc -ovulate. Berry umbilicate ; seeds oo , angular or cuneate. Other 

 characters of Astvonia. — Glabrous shrubs or small trees ; leaves 

 petiolate or sessile, entire coriaceous, 3-nerved ; flowers^ axillary soli- 

 tary or few-cymose {Kihessia), more rarely in compound ramose 

 cymes; pedicels often 2<bracteolate. {Malaya^ trop. Oceania.^) 



49? Plethiandra Hook, f.^ — *' Flowers 6-merous; receptacle 

 subcampanulate. Calyx truncate, 6-denticulate. Petals 6, acuminate- 

 lanceolate. Stamens to 30, equal ; filaments short, filiform ; anthers 

 linear-oblong, subrecurved inappendiculate, introrsely 2-rimose. Ger- 

 men almost quite adnate to receptacle; cells 4, oo -ovulate ; style 

 slender, punctiform at apex. Fruit . . . ? — A glabrous ramose shrub ; 

 twigs terete thickened at nodes ; leaves sessile oblong lanceolate 

 obscurely crenate, rather fleshy ; nerves 3, obscure ; flowers'^ axillary, 

 thick-pedunculate, solitary or fasciculate, ebracteate." — (Borneo.^) 



III. BLAKE^. 



50. Blakea L. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle concave sub- 

 hemispherical or campanulate, enclosing germen adnate within and 

 produced beyond to an internally glandular and often sulcate cupule. 

 Calyx gamophyllous, often dilated, 5, 6-lobed or dentate; preflora- 

 tion . . . ? Petals 5, 6, various, contorted. Stamens 10-12, inserted 

 with perianth, subequal ; filaments slender (Topohea), or oftener rather 

 thick, incurved in bud; anthers subdolabriform, rather broad or narrow, 

 often compressed, cells introrse linear, porous or shortly rimose, con- 

 nective at base externally produced to an acute or obtuse spur some- 

 times subnil. Germen inferior, 4-6-celled5 at base more or less adnate 

 to receptacle, depressed at vertex, sometimes produced to a vertical 

 cone ; style erect simple, at apex stigmatose truncate or capitate, 



* Oftener bluish. {Ewyckia) ; Ann. ii. 6 10 ( Kibessia), 611 [Ewyckittf 



2 Spec, about 17. Deless. Ic. Sel. v. t. 5. — Bl. Rectomitra, Macroplacis) ; iv. 798 {Maeroplacis^ 



Bijdr. 1079 {Melastoma) . — Korth. Verh. Nat. Ewyckia)^ 799 {Rectomitra). 



Gesch. t fi6 {Astronia), 67 {Ewyckia) .—^.^0.. FL ^ Gen. 772, n. 132. 



Ind.-Bat.i. p. i. 568 {Ewyckia), o^'d {Kibessia). "* ''Small." 



— Walp. Rep. ii. 148 ; v. 723 {Kibessia), 724 ° Spec. 1. P. Motleyi Hook. f. he. cit. 



