PLERO'MA HETEROMALLA. 
HETEROMALLOUS PLEROMA. 
EXOGEN&. oR DICOTYLEDONES. 
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NATURAL ORDER, MELASTOMACEA, 
CALYCIFLORE, heh i a on) DECANDRIA, 
OF : ay to whic MONOGYNIA, 
DECANDOLLE. j this Plant oS » OF LINNEUS. 
No. 175. 
GENUS. Pieroma. Don. Catrrx limbo quinquefido, tandem —— 
PeTaLa quinque, patentia. Sramina decem subequalia, connectivo basi in- 
trorsum. varee biauriculato, anthersis uniporosis. Ovyartum setis serie 
CapsuLa era elata, abco sublibera » quingue locularis, superne quinque 
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opposita aut verticillata. Panicutz terminales. Fores Sexton: Bra 
idue. 
PECIE PL EROMA nvcsesnegeee _— ——- obtuse . otriigenis: ad- 
presse setulosis, _ ane tis I 
subtus albo-tomen etn paniculato ‘rhachi reais breviter pepe 
setosis, filamentis tabite connectivis postice glanduliferi 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, PLeromMa. LIMB OF THE CALYX 
five-cleft, falling off after the flowering. Perats five, spreading. 
STAMENS ien, nearly equal, the connectivum furnished in yarious 
shapes with two auricles at the base on the inner side; the anthers 
terminating in one pore. Ovary crowned by bristles or hairs. Cap- 
SULE inclosed in the calyx, but nearly free trom it, five-celled, open- 
ing in five slits at the top. S£EDS numerous, reniform-oblong, with 
the hilum at the base, dotted. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, PLEROMA HETEROMALLA, An 
erect SHRUB of several feet in height, the young branches thick, 
green, bluntly four-angled, covered, as well as the leaf and flower- 
stalks, with short appressed stiff hairs, Leaves opposite, broadly 
oval, blunt or with a short point, entire, heart-shaped at the base, 
thick, marked with five or seven nerves parting from the base, covered 
on the upper side with short stiff hairs, and on the under side with a 
white, thick, short, almost woolly down, FLowrrs large and showy, 
disposed in a terminal panicle, of which the ramifications are opposite, 
and bear at their extremity from three to seven sessile flowers. Bracts 
lanceolate, of a pinkish hue, falling off very early. Catyx tubular, 
covered with stiff, appressed, almost silky hairs; the limb consisting 
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