248 MBLASTOMACEjE. 



13. CI. Swartzii, Gr. Branches and petioles pilose with dense, rusty, deciduons hairs ; 

 leaves ovate, pointed, ^-nerved, with scattered hairs or glabrescent : petioles equalling the 

 axillary, raoemiform cymes ; calyx pilose, semiglobose, bibracteolate : lobes reduced, mucro- 

 nate, with the macro shorter than the subulate base ; petals 4, ronndish ; ovary 4-locular : 

 style filiform, with a capitulate stigma. — Melastoma pilosa, Sw. ! Sagraea pilosa, BC. Sta- 

 phidiastrirai pilosum, iV««(?. St. rubrinerve, ifijai^. / — ^A shrub ; leaves 4"- 6" long, denti- 

 culate or entire ; cymes slender, either simple or trifid towards the base, densely pilose : 

 flowers small ; petals white, with a red base ; beny hairy, small. — Hab. Jamaica !, Pd. ; S. 

 Vincent !, Guild., in mountain woods ; [Cuba]. 



13. CI. g^adalupensis, Gr. Branches tetragonal, powdery or downy, at length 

 glabrous ; leaves ovate, taper-pointed, tripUnerved, glabrescent : petioles shorter than the 

 peduncles of the axillary, raceme/bnK cyme*; calyx Aovfny. /od^'i filiform from a subulate 

 base, much shorter than the tube ; petals 4, bluntish ; ovary 4-locular : stigma minute. — 

 Plum. Ed. Burm. t. 142. / 2 ; a form with large leavesi^Sagrsea, BC. — Leaves S"-6" 

 long; transverse veins prominent beneath; cymes interrupted and few-flowered; anthers 

 without appendages ; berry black. — Hab. Dominica!, 7w.,- [Guadeloupe!]. 



14. CI. hirsuta, Gr. Branches and petioles pilose with rusty bristles ; leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate, taper-pointed, trijilinerved, with scattered hairs : petioles shorter than the 

 spreading pedicels of the axillary, corymbiform cymes ; calyx setose: lobes filiform, from a 

 subulate base, as long as the tube ; petals 4, taper-pointed; ovary 4-looular: style fusiform, 

 with a minute stigma.— Melastoma, Sw. Sagraea, BC.—k. shrub, 2'-3' high ; leaves 2"-3" 

 long ; cymes few-flowered ; petals whitish ; anthers without appendages ; berry hairy, black- 

 purple. — Hab. Jamaica !, Macf., Pd., Wils., on the south-eastern hills. 



15. CI. microphjrlla, Gr. Branches and leaves downy with short, substrigose hairs ; 

 leaves ovate, blunt, triplinerved, equalling the pedicels or twice as long ; calyx pilose, semi- 

 globose: lobes filiform from a subulate base, shorter than the tube; petals 4, ovate, pointed; 

 ovary 4-locular : stigma minute. — Melastoma, Sm. I Sagraea, BO. Osssea pratensis, Marf. 

 — A shrub, 2'-3' high, with many divaricated branches ; leaves 6"'-12"' long, denticulate or 

 repand: petiole l"'_-2"' long ; axillary pedicels usually solitary, simple (or "tripartite"), 

 filiform ; petals white; anthers without appendages; beny hispid, purple. — Hab. Jamaica!, 

 Macf., Pd., Al., in pastures of the central valleys. 



Sect. 3. Staphidiastkum.— ^M^^ers injlexed above the adherent ovary. Flowers in 



16. Ol. rubra, Mart. Branches rusty-tomentose or shaggy ; leaves more or less ellip- 

 tical, quintuplineryed, tubercled and strigose above, tomentose beneath, upper ones shortly 

 petioled or subsessile ; flowers crowded, sessile ; calyx strigose : lobes much shorter tlmn the 

 tube; petals 4 (-5), obovate; ovary 4-3-locular : style filiform, with a minute stigma. — 

 Vahl, Bclog. 2. t. 18 ; Bonpl. Mel. t. 39. — Melastoma, Anbl. ! Sagraa sessiliflora, BO. 

 Staphidiastrum rubrum, Naud. St. atteuuatum, Naud. St, Bonplandii, Naud. : a' form 

 with longer petioles, did. debilis, Orueg. !: the same.— A shrub, 3'-B' high ; leaves usually 

 2"-4" long, elliptical-ovate or elliptical-oblong, subacute ; petals red (sometimes white) ; an- 

 thers without appendages. — Hab. Trinidad I, Lockh., Or., common in gravelly savannahs ; 

 [S. Thomas, Panama!, Venezuela! to Brazil! and Peru!]. 



17. CI. scabrosa, Gr. Branches tomentose ; leaves ovate, bluntish, tripli-quiutnpli- 

 nerved, rough : petioles much longer than the axillary, sessile flowers ; calyx strigose : lobes 

 as long as the semiglobose tube ; petals 4, taper-pointed ; ovary 4-locular : style filiform with 

 a minute stigma.— 5?-. Jam. t. %^.f. 3.— OssiEa, BC. Sagraea, Navd. S. gl'omerata, Naud., 

 a form with crowded flowers. S. Lindeuiana, Naud.!: a form with few-flowered clusters — 

 A shrub, 4'-10' high ; leaves 2"-4" long, rough with short conical bristles on both sides 

 glaucous and obsoletely pitted beneath, crenulated ; petals white and tinged with purple • 

 anthers without appendages, short ; berry hairy, rufous.— Hab. Jamaica !, Macf., Al., Wils'. 

 iilong riversides in the hills ; [Cuba!]. ' ' 



18. CI. crossosepala, Gr. («. sp). Branches pilose and glabrescent ; leaves ovate or 

 elliptical-lanceolate, taper-pointed, quintuplinerved or triplinerved (sometimes obliquely tri- 

 nerved), subacute at the petioled base, glabrous or glabrescent, cihate, and powdery on the 



