48 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



22. Oxyspora DC — Flowers 4-merous ; receptacle cylindrical or 

 subcampanulate, externally glabrous. Sepals 4, 5, sometimes with 

 a small dorsal tooth. Petals pointed. Stamens 8-10, more or less 

 unequal, or very rarely 4; anthers curved, 1 -porous at apex, shortly 

 2-lobed at base ; connective at base more or less (sometimes very 

 shortly) spurred posteriorly. Grermen 3, 4-celled, deeply adnate , to 

 receptacle by septa or only at base {Allomorfhia ^) ; style slender 

 declinate, at apex stigmatose punctiform. Capsules obovoid or sub- 

 clavate, enclosed in costate receptacle, 3, .4-valved ; seeds straight 

 subclavate angular; raphe lateral or subbasilar. — Shrubs or under- 

 shrubs, sometimes subscandent, glabrous or furfuraceous ; leaves 

 long-petiolate, wide, entire, sinuate or dentate, 6-7-nerved ; flowers ^ 

 in terminal or more rarely subradicle very compound ramose cymi- 

 ferous racemes. {India, Malaya.'^) 



23. Bredia Bl.° — Flowers 4-merous ; receptacle turbinate or 

 subcampanulate. Sepals 4, obovate, contorted. Stamens 8, unequal; 

 anthers incurved linear-elongate, 1-porous at apex, connective sur- 

 rounded anteriorly by two setose appendages, and posteriorly by a 

 rather large or short tubercular spur (Barthea.^) Germen adnate to 

 receptacle to middle or higher by means of septa, 4-celled ; style 

 declinate, at apex stigmatose punctiform. Capsule 4-valved ; 

 seeds . . . ? — Shrubs, sometimes climbing, glabrous or hirsute ; 

 leaves unequal petiolate, ovate or lanceolate, serrulate, 3-5-nerved ; 

 flowers' in terminal cymes, sometimes (Barthea) few-flowered. 

 (China, Japan.^) 



24l. Blastus Lour.' — Flowers 4, 5-merous; receptacle oftener 

 subcampanulate, sometimes sub-4-gonal (JDriessenia}°) Calyx oftener 



1 Prodi: iii. 123 ; Mem. Milmt. i. 33, t. i.~ — Walp. Rep. ii. 127 ; 143, 918 [Alhmorphia) ; 



Endl. Gen. n. 6203. — Naud. Ann. Se. Nat. ser. Ann. ii. 601. — Hook. Fl. lud. ii. 527. 



3, XV. 306.^B. H. Gen. 731, n. 61.— Tbi. Melast. * Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. 25, fig. 4.— Naud. Ann. 



73, t. 6. fig. 62.— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 525.— Somn- Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xv. 284.— B. H. Gen. 753, n. 71. 



centria Naud. loc. cit. xv. 308, t. 15. — AUoztjgia — Tri. Melast. 73, t. 6, fig. 63. 



Naud. loc. cit. 309, t. 15.— Syloeharu Miq. Fl. ' Hook. jr. Gen, 161, n. 62. — Tki. Melast. 73, 



Ind.-Bat. Suppl. i. 319 (ex Tki.). t. 6, fig. 61. 



^ Bl. Flora (1831), 522. — Naud. loc. cit. xv. " Pink or white externally. 



310.— B. H. Gen. 762, n. 64.— Tki. Melast. 74, « Spec. 3. Hance, £enth. Fl. Songls. 115 



t. 6, fig. 66. {I>issocheeta?).—ii-KG.Gartenfl.{].i,1Q) 193, t. 655. 



' Moderate or very small, pink. ^ Fl. Cochinch. (ed. 1790) 526. — Seem. Journ. 



* Spec. 8. fioxB. Fl. Ind. iOi [Melastoma) .— Boi. i. 281.— B. H. Gen. 752, n. 65.— Tri. Melast. 



Don, Mem. Wern. Soc. iv. 299 ; Prodr. Fl. Nep. 73, t. 6, fig. 65.— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 628. 



222 {Arthro8te}nma).—yfii.i.-L. PI. As.Rar. i.i. i» Kokth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. 221, t. 53. — 



f,9,.—'Bv<sTB..Fl.IIongk.\\&(Oxyspora). — Naud. Naud. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xv. 283, t. 4. — 



A. Gray Un. St. Fxpl. Exp. Bot. i. 597 (Anplec- B. H. Gen. 753, n. 69.— Tki. Melast. 73, t. 6, 



trmn). — 7S.oo^.Bot.Mat/.t.i5oZ{Arthrostemina). fig. 64. 



