Napoleonea] LIII,, MYRTACES. 363 
24, or rarely 3 in. in diameter ; bark of the trunk and older branches 
grey, rough; branches erect-spreading at the apex, crowded in a 
whorled manner on the trunk, virgately elongated ; whorls 5 to 7 
rarely 13 to 2 ft. distant, nodose-thickened ; branchlets and twigs 
drooping, beset in places with whitish-grey warts which become white, 
the younger branches acutely quadrangular, the older ones obtusely so, 
the youngest ones very acutely triquetrous ; leaves variable in size, 
mostly 6 to 7 in. long by 2} to 3 in. broad, coriaceous, deep-green 
above, paler and bright-green beneath, pellucid-punctate, oblong- 
lanceolate, repand or obscurely and obtusely dentate, obliquely 
terminated at the apex with a rounded-obtuse acumen an inch long ; 
petiole short, scarcely 4 in. long, thick, gibbous, fleshy, curved, with 
an oily gloss shortly 2-winged by the decurrent blade ; no little glands 
at the base of the blade ; calyx-tube furnished at the base with broad 
ovate keeled white-greenish bracteoles, wholly blood-reddish, varnished- 
glossy ; calyx-lobes green, acuminate, thickened in a triangular manner 
at the apex ; corolla rather fleshy, imbricate-subcontorted in estivation, 
snow-white at first shortly after the opening of the flower, afterwards 
turning rose-coloured, and finally yellowish, never bluish, the corona 
at the outer base purplish-peach-coloured ; stamens apparently 20 ; 
filaments broad, distant, cohering by means of a thin connecting 
membrane, monadelphous ; the alternate ones sterile ; anthers 10, 
actually extrorse, but by the bending of the staminal tube appearing 
to be introrse, apparently 1-celled ; stigma 5-angled, pitted at the 
concave apex, the angles slightly keeled from the centre towards the 
circumference, the keels ending at the apex in an erect bifid crest ; 
fruit resembling a pomegranate. In the more elevated primitive 
forests, in company with Monodora Myristica Dun. and a species of 
Tetracera, Symphonia globulifera L.f., Dichapetalum angolense Chodat, 
etc., fl. and fr, from Feb. to June, not abundant ; in the dense forests 
of the mountains of Queta, near Comuengue between N-delle and the 
river Luinha, with few fl. and fr., 21 May 1856; Moangue, N-delle, 
end of June 1856. No. 4592. A small evergreen tree 7 to 15 ft. high, 
with subverticillate branches and whitish-rose handsome flowers. In 
primitive forests of the Queta mountains, with fl. buds fl. and ripe fr. 
on the same branch, May 1856. Cou. Carp. 568. 
Sierra LeonE.—A very elegant shrub; flowers from whitish to 
rose-coloured. Freetown ; ripe fr. given to Welwitsch by Epfen- 
hausen. Cou. Carp. 567, 
LIV. MELASTOMACE. 
The proportionately very limited number of the Melastomacez in 
Angola, so far as yet discovered, notwithstanding the attention 
which has been devoted to their investigation, leads to the belief 
either that in Africa they are generally less abundant south of the 
equator than north of it, or that the greater part of them occur 
‘in the highlands of Songo, Duque de Braganga, and other countries 
lying east of the province. (Welwitsch, Apont. p. 570 n. 169). 
1. OSBECKIA L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 744 (1867). 
Antherotoma Hook. f. in Benth. & Hook. f., .c., p. 745. 
1. 0. antherotoma Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat., Ser. 3, xiv. p. 56 
(1850); Cogniaux in DC. Monogr. Phan. vii. p. 330 (1891). 
Antherotoma Naudini Hook. f. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. 
