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GENUS VI. HOMOCENTRIA, 
@étandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
_ Deriv. From Horaos, one; and Kentrion, a little spur, in allu- 
sion to the single spur of the connectivum. 
Gen. Car. Flowers tétiamerqus: calyx-tube oblong, 4-an= 
gled: limb dilated, shortly 4-lobed: petals triangular-lanceolate, 
very acute: stamens unequal, with a single pore at the apex, four 
of the greater onés with Jinear anthers, sigmoid, of the lesser ones 
oblong-elliptié, obtiise, niuth shorter by half than the others; the 
Gonnectivum of all not conspicuous in front; but produced behind 
into a sharp inturved spur; evary oblong, 4:celled: style filiform, 
alender: stigma pointed: fruit unknown, probably capsular, 
(1) H. vaeans. (Naudin.) 
Ident. Navin. Annal. XV. p. $08.—<Walp. Annal. IIT. p. 81: 
Syn. Melastoma vagans, Rowb. fl. Ind. Il. p. 404.Oxyspora 
vagans, Wall.+M. rugosa, Well. 
4 Eagrav. Walp. Pl. As; Bar: J. t. 88.~-Hook: Bot. Mag. t: 
4553. 
Srzc: Car. A somewhat scandent shrub: upper branches scat= 
tered with thin scurfy down, dlder ones glabrous: lea¥es opposite; 
kometinies unequal ig the same paii, petioled, ovate-acuminate, 
founded at the base, slightly crenulated at the margin, 5-nerved ; 
panicles terminal : flowers short-pedicelled, bright-ted. | 
Chittagong. Khasia mountains: Flowering in May. 
GENDS Vil. ALLOZYGIA. 
Octandria Monogyniia, Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Allos; various, and Zugos; a yoke or pair; ii allus 
gion to the changing parts of the flower. 
Gen: Ciiar. Flowers tetramerous: calyx-tube oblong-campanu- 
late, 4-sided: limb shortly 4-toothed: teeth acute: petals obovate: 
oblong; shortly acuminated: petals alternately unequal; with long 
anthers, having one pore at the apex: conneetivum not produced 
between the cells: ovary ovoid, adherent to the middle, its apex 
free, sorhewhat 4-sided: cells 4: style filiform, slender, with a 
pointed stigma: capsules clothed with the 8-ribbed calyx, 
(1) A. cernva. (Naudin,) 
Idewt. Wandin: Annal. XV. p. 309.—Walp. Annal. III: p: 844 
‘Byn. Melastoma cernua, Roxb. fl. Ind: I. p: 404. 
Engrav, Naudin;: 1. ¢.t. XV: fi-5. 
