MELASTOMACH^. 43 



pungent',' persistent. Petals 5, subovate aoute, contorted. Stamens 

 10, subequal (of Microlicia),^ connective shortly produced and aug- 

 mented at base by two short tubercles ; anthers subulate, 1-porous 

 at apex. Germen 3-celled. Capsule 3-valved ; seeds oblong, straight 

 or curved, punctate. Other characters of Microlicia. — An ericoid* 

 glabroas virgate shrublet; leaves (small) rigid, 6-farious, carinate 

 acute pungent; flowers ' terminal solitary.^ (Central and south. Brazil.^) 



12 ? Cambessedesia DC.^ — Flowers (nearly of Chcetostoma) 5- 

 merous; receptacle ovoid, subglobular or campanulate. Petals 5, 

 pointed, contorted. Stamens 10, either subequal, or unequal ; anthers 

 curved subulate, 1-porous at apex ; connective not produced at base, 

 sometimes dilated-cuneate, Sometimes dorsally enlarged to a longi- 

 tudinally adnate stalk. Germen 3-celled, &c., of Chcetostoma ; seeds 

 straight tubercular. — Shrubs or shrublets, glabrous or variously 

 clothed; twigs erect, 4-gonal; leaves' opposite or subfasciculate, 

 entire or serrate ; flowers * either solitary, or in compound some- 

 times corymbiform cymes. {South. Brazil.^) 



13? Lithobium Bong."— " Flowers 3-merous; receptacle cam- 

 panulate. Sepals 3, rotund very short. Petals 3, orbicular emar- 

 ginate. Stamens 5, equal; connective of anthers shortly produced 

 at base. Germen half-free globular, 3-celled. Fruit capsular 

 globular, 3-celled ; seeds straight piriform smooth ; hilum lateral. — 

 A dimunitive glandular-pilose herb ; rhizome tuberous ; leaves radicle 

 longpetiolate; flowers" l-3,cymose at end of scape." (North. Brazil.^^) 



' Like those only whose basilar tuheroles of Ann. ii. 546. 



the connective are short, as M. sincorensis and ' Frodr. iii. 110 (1828). — Endl. Gen. n. 6185. 



allies. — Natjd. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xv. 60. — B. H. 



« Habit of some Boroniecs. Gen. 737, n. 7.— Tki. Mclast. 24, t. 1, fig. 7.— 



3 White, pink or red. Acipetaltun Tuhcz. Bull. Mosc. (1848) i. 577. 



" A genus differing chiefly in habit from Mi- ? Oftener small, sometimes cricoid or resem- 



crolicia (of which perhaps it is better a section). bling some Australian Legtiminosee. 



Stenodon auierosus (Naud. loc. cit. ii. 146, t. 3 ; ' Somewhat resembling those of Oxystemon, 



xii. 215, t. 12) constitutes, with us {Adaneonia, a genus hence apparently very near Marcetia 



xii. 95), a section of this genus, differing from and Microlicia (as ChcBtastoma). 



the rest by its indumentum as much as Trsmifej/a 'Spec. 7, 8. B. JJAf«. t. 56, 58, 60. — Mart. 



Zychniiis from its congeners. Flowers some- Nc-v. Gen. et Sp. iii. 125, t. 262, 263. — Walp. 



times 6, 7TmerouB. Ann. ii. 6U1 {Acipeialum). 



' Spec. 6. Spreng. St/st. ii. 308 {Shexia). — '» Mgm. Acad. Pitersb. ser. 6, ii. Bot. 140, t. 



Mart. Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. 128, t. 264, fig. 1.— 8, fig. 2.— B. H. Gen. 736, u. 2.— Tri. Melant, 



Naud. loc. cit. xii. 179, 230 {Microlicia).— B. H. 23, t. 1, fig. 1. 



Gen. 737, n. 9 [Stenodon).— T\ii. Mclast. 25. t. 1, " " Purplish." 



fig. 9 (Stenodon). -^yf tLiiV. Hep. ii. 125 ; v. 699 ; " Spec. 1. Z.cordalum Bono. loc. oil,. 



