MELASTOMACE^. -53 



much contorted. Stamens 8, 2-seriate ; filaments glabrous ; anthers 

 2-form, much inflexed, vertical in bud ; the oppositipetalous larger 

 subulate, 1 -porous at apex; connective externally produced at base 

 in a thick subclavate mass ; connective of the shorter (paler) (often 

 sterile) alternipetalous longer and more slender. Germen to middle 

 more or less adnate to receptacle, 4-celled, at vertex setose or villose ; 

 style inserted in depression at top of germen, slender,' at apex stig- 

 matose not dilated. Fruit capsular, enclosed in receptacle, 4-valved ; 

 seeds Qo , curved or cochleate. — Branched sometimes tomentose shrubs 

 or undershrubs ; leaves ovate or lanceolate, 3-7-nerved, entire or 

 serrulate ; flowers ^ terminal, solitary or cymose, often few. {Both 

 trop. west. Americas i^) 



31. Rhexia L.* — Flowers 4-merous ; receptacle campanulate or 

 urceolate. Sepals 4, 3-angular. Petals 4, obovate. Stamens 8, 

 subequal ; filaments incurved ; anthers elongate obtuse, at apex 

 sometimes dilated 1 -porous ; connective not produced at base, oftener 

 incrassate, posteriorly furnished with short subulate appendage to base. 

 Germen free, 4-celled; style slender, at apex stigmatose truncate. 

 Capsule enclosed in ventricose receptacle, 4-valved ; seeds straight, 

 curved or cochleate, smooth or rough. — Herbs, sometimes subshrubby 

 at base, generally setosely glandular; leaves petiolate, entire or 

 serrulate, 3-nerved ; flowers * solitary or cymose. (South-east. North 

 ' America.^) 



32. Miconia R. and Pa v.' — Flowers generally 4, 5-merous, more 

 rarely 6-8-merous ; receptacle globular, campanulate, sometimes 



* Finally deolinate contrariwise to stamens. et Gk. M. N.-Amer. i. 476. — Bot. Mag. t. 968. — 

 . s Moderate, pink or violet. Walp. Sep. ii. 126 ; Ann. iii. 869 (part). 



3 Spec, about 20. B. Rhex. t. 3, 16, 18.— De- 7 K et Pay. Prodr. 60.— DO. Prodr. iii. 171.— 



LESS. le. Sel. T. t. 4 — Speeng. Syst. ii. 309 Endl. Gen. n. 6258. — Nauo. Ann. So. Nat. ser. 



.{Shexia).—n. e't Pav? Fl. Per. iii. t. 380, fig. a 3, xvi. 113.— B. H. Gen. 763, u. 106.— Tri. Me- 



. {Rhexia). — DaSrMem. Wern. Soc. iv. 299 (Jrthro- last. 100. — Cremaiiium Don, Mem. Wern. Soo. iv. 



stemma). — Benth. PI. Martw. 181 [Chcetogaatra). 310. — Chitonia Don, loo. cit. 317 (not Naud.). — 



— L. Nettm. Rev. Hort. (1861) 211. — Schlchtl, Biploehita DC. Prodr. iii. 176. — Bypoxanthm 



■Linnaa, xiii. 431 {Rhexia). — Bot. Mag. t. 5132, EiOH. (ex DO. loe. eit. l80).—Chenopleura'Rica. 



5341, 6367, 5506. — Walp. Rep. v. 701 ; ^«».ii. (ex DC. loc. cit. 197). — Cuatanthera Pohl, PL 



.6C6 ; iv. 808. Bras. Icon. ii. 130, t. IS&.—Sarfigia MiQ. £in- 



* Gen. u. 468.— J. Oen. 330. — 'Nutt. Gen. i. ticea, xviii. 284, t. 7 (not Naud.). — Decaraphe 

 243. — DC. Prodr. iii. 121 (part). — ^Endl. Gen. Stbcd. J^j-a (1844), 722. — Glossocentron Crtjeg. 

 n. 6200. — Na0D. Ann. So. Nat. ser. 3, xv. 63. — Zinniea, xx. 111. — Pogonorhynchus Ceueg. loc, 

 B. H. Gen. 747, n. 49. — Tri. Melast. 61, t. 5, eit. 107. — Jueunda Cham. Linneea, ix. 456 (not 

 fig. 48. Benth.) — Chiloporus Naud. loc. eit. iv. 57. — 



* "White or pink, sometimes handsome. Oyanophyllum Naud. loc. cit. xvii. 324. — Octo- 

 ^ MiCHX. Fl. Bor.-Amer. i. 222. — Ptjrsh. Fl. meris Naud. loc. eit. xvii. 378 (part). — Schizan- 



.Bor.-Amer. i. 258.— Walt. Fl. Carol. 129.— thera TuECZ. Bull. Mosc. (1862) ii. 322. — 

 Destx. ^«m. Prodr. Zo. — 'Q. Rhex.t. it . — Toer. Augmtinea A. S.-H. et Naud. Ann^ So. Nat. 



