254 MELASTOMACBiE. 



obliqnelyobovate, the length of the calyx-tube; anthers ia-18.-*C. glabra, Macf.! C. alter- 

 nifolia, Macf. — An arborescent shrub : branches obtuse-angled ; leares bluntish at the pointed 

 top, obsoletely denticulate or entire, of unequal growth in the pair : the larger ones 6"-8" 

 long, their opposite ones nsually 2-3 times smaller, sometimes wanting : the leaf-ribs lined 

 beneath with some latersil hairs ; calyx before its opening 2"'-3"' long, ellipsoidal ; petals 

 white ; ovary 5-locular. — Hab. Jamaica I, Maef., WiU., in woods. 



42. C calyptrata, Don. Glabrous; leaves oblong or elliptical-oblong, siibtriplinerved ; 

 secondary branches of the panicle ending with a 3-7-flowered cyme: the pedicels unequal; 

 operculum somewhat protruding over the constricted calyx-tube, conical, rrmcronaie ; petals 

 5, elliptical, about the length of the calyx-tube ; anthers about 15. — Bompl. Mel. t. 46. — 

 An arborescent shrub with tetragonal branches ; leaves 3"-8" long, bluntish at the pointleted 

 top, aubentire ; the lateral and longer pedicels about the length of the flower ; calyx before 

 its, opening 8'" long : the operculum about double the length of the tube ; petals white ; 

 ovary 7-8-locular. — Hab. Montserrat, Dominical, J»tr., S.Vincent!, Guild., in mountain 

 woods ; [French islands !]. 



43. C. montana, Don. Branchlets covered with a whitish, mealy down ; leaves ellip- 

 tical, bluntish at the pointleted top, tripli-quintuplinerved ; panicle corymbiform : pedicels of 

 the secondary branches unequal, short ; operculum somewhat protruding over the semiglo- 

 bose calyx-t.ube, convex-conical, bluntish ; petals 5-6, obovate, exceeding in length the calyx- 

 tube ; anthers about 15 or less. — ^Melastoma, Sur. ! C. alpina, Macf. — A shrub, 10'-3' high, 

 with tetragonal branches ; leaves subentire, 3"-5" long and sometimes larger, the two oppo- 

 site ones often of unequal growth ; pedicels 3-5-nate, the central reduced and the lateral 

 ones shorter than the flower ; calyx before its opening 24"' long t the operculum a little 

 longer than the tube ; petals white ; ovary 5-locular. — Hab. Jamaica !, Sto., in mountain 

 woods. 



10. TETRAZYGIA, Rich, reform.; Naud. {I. v. 15.^. 842, exclus. sp.). 



(Naudinia, Rich. Cut. Harrera, Macf. Miconiastrum, Naud.. Miconise sect. Laceraria, Naud.) 



Calyx oampanulate : tube contracted at the top ; limb produced, spreading, with the teeth 

 short, bluntish, or wanting. Anthers 8-10 (-12), beaked-subulate, inflexed above the ovary, 

 opening with a single terminal pore : cells connected. Ovary adherent, crowned by a gla- 

 brous, denticulate neck, encircling the base of the style : style long-exserted, with the stSgma 

 minute. — Low trees or shrubs, not hispid; leaves petioled, at length glabrous above, often 

 whitish with scaly or tomentose 'down beneath; panicle terminal: cymes corymbiform, with 

 the flowers stalhed and the bracteoles minute or none ; petals obovate. 



Sect. 1. EUTETKAZYGIA. — Cob/x-limb regularly divided or subentire. Pedicels neither 

 jointed nor bearing bracts at the top. — Branchlets, panicle and under side of leaves whitish 

 with scaly or powdery down. 



44. T. angustiflora, Gr. Leaves elliptical or elliptical-lanceolate, abruptly taper- 

 pointed, triplinerved, whitened beneath by appressed stellate down or scales ; panicles raee- 

 miform ; calyx-tube 2-3 times as long as the limb : teeth 5, roundish or obsolete ; anthers 

 10 : pore turned outwards on the obliquely truncate top ; ovary 8-locular. — Bot. Mag., t, 

 4383. — Diplochita, Benth. I Miconiastrum Larabertianum, Naud. T. elseagnoides, Eook. 

 {non DC.) . Harrera gerascanthoides, Macf — A low tree, 20' high, remarkable for the white, 

 powdery down of the branchlets and the inflorescence ; leaves 3"-5" long, variable in breadth, 

 bluntish at the tapering point, entire: petiole 1" long ; panicle oblong : the primary branches 

 terminated Tiy 5-7 -flowered, corymhiforni cymes ; flowers white, large, but with a narrow 

 calyx ; petals 5 ("rarely 4," Macf), white, 4"'-5"' long, obovate or obovate-oblong, pointed 

 or bluntish; anthers yellow, slightly biam-iculated at the base on the anterior side; style 

 crimson ; berry " black." 



o. Leaves whitish beneath with stellate down. 



0. argyroph/lla. Leaves elliptical-lauceolate, leprous with a scaly epidermis beneath.— 

 Rich. Cub. t. 44 Us: wrong in certain analytical details, as for instance the bristles on 

 the ovary, ascribed by Richard to his genus Naudinia, but which do not in reality exist. — 

 Naudinia argyrophylla) Rich. N. ehrysophylla, Rich. . this appears to be the less candicant 



