250 MBLASTOMACBiB. 



panicle loose, exMbiting stalked, 3-flowered heads ; petals rosy ; anthers somewhat tuhercled 

 at the base ; berry purple.' — Hab. Jamaica 1, Macf., rare in the moimtains ; [Cuba !, Haiti]. 



6. TSCHUDYA, DC. reform.; Nand. (l. t. 18. >. 91). 



(ClidemiEe sp., DC, Naud.) 



Calyx campanulate or semiglobose : limb reduced : teeth short, bluntish or obsolete. An- 

 thers 10-8, linear, inflexed above the ovary, opening with a single terminal pore : cells con- 

 nected above. Ovary crowned with a neck, bearing terminal bristles or a minnte down. — 

 Shrubs, usaally hispid ; panicle usually terminal, with clustered or serial flowers. 



24. T. ruf escens, DC. Branches, petioles, and panicle shaggy with rusty hairs ; leaves 

 ovatc-oblong or elliptical-oblong, acuminate, 3-nerved or triplinerved, hairy chiefly on the 

 nerves and more dense beneath ; panicle compound : ultimate branchlets with serial, sessile 

 flowers ; petals 5, subulate ; stigma capitate; berry 5-locular. — DO. Melast. t. 9. — T. a«r 

 periuscula, DC. Clidemia rhodopogon, DC. — A shrub, 6'-10' high ; leaves 4"— 6" long, 

 denticulate or repand, petioled; panicle spreading: ultimate cymes 3-7-flowered; calyx- 

 teeth linear, deciduous, about one-sixth the length of the tube; petals "greeniahj" anthers 

 without appendages ; seeds obovate : rhaphe produced into a large appendage.— Hab. Tri; 

 nidad!, Lockh., Cr., in mountain woods; [Guiana, equatorial Brazil]. 



25. T. ibagneusis, Gr. Branches, '^&i\o\es, and panicle shaggy with rusty hairs; 

 leaves ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 3-nerved or tripUnervcd, with scattered 

 hairs, chiefly on the nerves ; panicle trichotomous : flowers shortly serial, sessile ; petals 5, 

 obovate ; stigma peltate ; berry 3-locular. — Bonpl. Mel. i. 45 ; Mi^. Comment. Fhytogr. 2. 

 t. 10 Q, — Melastoma, Bonpl. Clidemia miconiojdes, Benth. ! CI. maculata, Benth. ap. 

 Crueg. ! ; &eb. Trin. k. 64 ! : the plant described by Bentham differs by having more hairy 

 leaves. Miconia eriophora, Miq. ! Clid. agrestis, DC. ? — A shrub, 4'-6' high : its habit 

 exactly like the preceding species, but the panicle less compound and not so loose, terminal 

 on the branches, and the petals blunt; leaves 3' -4" long, denticulate; calyx-teeth minute, 

 tuberculiform, connected by the entire margin of the limb, deciduous ; anthers bitubercled 

 at the base on the anterior side; seeds pyramidal. — Hab. Trinidad 1, Sieh., Or., in woods ; 

 [Mexico !, Panama I, New Granada, Guiana !]. 



26. T. strigillosa, Gr. (». sp>j. Branchlets, petioles, and panicle somewhat strigose 

 with rusty hairs ; leaves eniptical-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, conspicuously triplinerved, 

 glabrescent, or with scattered, appressed hairs, chiefly on the nerves ; panicle infraterminal : 

 flowers ternate, shortly stalked, and with two minute bracts ; petals 5, linear, acuminate ; 

 stigma minute ; berry . . . . — Leaves (3"-6" long) entire and shortly ciliate ; the lateral 

 nerves 3"'-6"' distant from the leaf-base; calyx strigillose, a little distant from the strigose 

 bracts ; teeth minute, exceeded by the petals ; petals 1'" long, half the length of the style ; 

 anthers 10, linear and subulate. — Hab. Trinidad !, dr., at Tocuohe. 



27. T. berbiceana, 6r. Branches glabrescent : petioles and panicle rusty-downy ; 

 leaves ovate, pointed, subcordate at the base, Z-^-neroed, glabrescent and ciliated-serrulate ; 

 panicle trichotomous ; flowers clustered, all terminal ; petals 5, obovate ; stigma minute ; 

 berry 8-locular, {urrov/ei.— Clidemia, DC. Miconia eriopoda, Benth. I M. cUdemioides' 

 Steud.S M. berbiceana, iVaarf. M. pleurooarpa, Naud. Melastoma pleuroearpum, B. 

 Mey. : Decaraphe Fockeana, M?. .'—A shrub, 6'-8' high, variable in the form and down 

 of leaves ; leaves 3"-6" long, petioled ; calyx-limb shortly 5-lobed ; lobes broad, blnnt, and 

 minutely tubercled on the back ; petals pale yellow or white ; anthers curved, bitubercled 

 at the base on the anterior side : beak o£ the ovary bearing only a minute, evanescent down ; 

 seeds oval. — Hab. Trinidad I, Sieh., Cr.; [Guiana !, where it is common]. 



28. T. lanata, Gr. Branches, petioles, and panicle woolly ; leaves ovate, pointleted, 

 subcordate at the hw&, i-nerved, orenate, velvety,, hoax-j beneath; panicle trichotomous: 



flowers clustered, all terminal ; petals 5, obovate ; stigma capitate ; berry 3-locular. CUd'e- 



mia, DC, ex Sieb. Trin. n. 66 1 Staphidinm, Naud.-—K high shrub, at least B'-14' high ; 

 leaves 4"-8" long, petioled; calyx-limb shortly 5-lobed: lobes broad, blunt, and minutely 

 tubercled on the back ; petals white, fragrant ; anthers curved, bitubercled at the base on 

 the anterior side ; seeds oval.— Hab. S. Vincent !, Guild. ; Trinidad !, Sieh., Lockh., Cr., in 

 woods ; [Guiana] . 



