seribed five additional species in RExEs’s Cyclopedia, which had 
been gathered by the celebrated Dr A. AFZELIUS at Sierra 
Leone. With the characters of none of these will our plant 
accord, which has been raised from seed, sent from Nepal by 
Dr Wat icu, both at the Botanic Gardens of Glasgow and 
of Edinburgh. It first flowered in the magnificent new esta- 
blishment of the latter city in June 1822, and it was there 
that the accompanying figure was made. 
I possess dried specimens of this handsome plant, from 
Katmandu in Nepal, which I received both from Dr Wat- 
LICH and from Sir James Smiru. The latter gentleman has 
sent me likewise another species of the genus, from the same 
country, differing from the present in its shorter leaves, and a 
calyx entirely concealed by thick bristle-shaped processes. This 
is the O. crinita of Smrru’s MS. and should, when published, 
bear that name. 
The stamens vary from 8 to 10 in this genus, which many 
botanists scarcely consider sufficiently distinct from Rhevia, 
but which SmirH considers may be sufficiently marked by the 
“ permanent simple teeth of the calyx, destitute of interme- 
diate scales.” Many plants have, however, according to Mr 
Brown, been arranged among the Rheaxice which do not be- 
long to them; and this author even goes so far as to say, that 
probably no genuine species of Melastoma, and certainly none of 
Rhewia, has yet been published in M. Bonriann’s splendid 
and valuable monographs of these two genera. The original 
species of the Linnean genera Melastoma and Rhewia, the 
same author, however, believes will be found to possess generic 
characters sufficiently distinguishing them from the greater 
part of the plants that have been since added to them by va- 
rious authors, 
As an Order, Mr Brown assures us that Melastomacee 
is only to be distinguished from Myrtacee by the absence of 
the pellucid glands of the leaves and other parts, which exist 
in all the genera really belonging to that extensive family. 
LN 
Fig. 1. Peet tom, which the petals have been removed. Fig. 2. Stamen. 
: ig. 3. Portion of the style and stigma. Fig. 4. Base of a petal. Fig. 2- 
Germen cut through vertically. "Fig. 6. Secks ot the calyx. Fig. 7. Ger- 
transversely. Fig. 8. Capsule bursting —Al/ more or 
