MELASTOMACE^. 55 



connective (sometimes thick) at base often elongate or simple, exap- 

 pendiculate (Charianthus), anteriorly variously appendiculate, poste- 

 riorly bare or appendiculate (Platycentrum). Germen more or less 

 sometimes quite (Conostegia, Charianthus) adnate to receptacle, some- 

 times by means of more or less complete septa continuous with it 

 between inflexed anthers, at vertex convex or more rarely concave 

 {Galycogonium), glabrous, setose or hirsute, at apex dentate, rather 

 flat or tubular ; style erect, oftener slender, at apex capitate or discoid 

 stigmatose ; cells 2-6, oftener oo -ovulate ; ovules rarely few or 2, 3., 

 Fruit baccate, coriaceous or fleshy, finally opening irregularly (not 

 valvately dehiscent) ; seeds obovoid, obcuneate or obpyramidal, rarely 

 curved or subcochleate. — Trees or shrubs, erect or climbing, glabrous 

 or with various indumentum ; leaves sessile or generally petiolate, 

 entire, dentate or serrate ; flowers ^ in terminal or more rarely lateral 

 or axillary racemes, more or less compound ramose, sometimes sparsely 

 divided, glomerulate, cymose or 1-3-nate {Pachyanthus), sessile or 

 oftener pedicellate, sometimes by abortion 1-lateral, 1-seriate. 

 (Both trop. Americas.'^) 



33 ? Ansectocalyx Tei.' — Flowers nearly oiMiconia, rather large; 

 receptacle subcampanulate. Sepals 5, 6, unequal, elongate, subulate. 

 Petals 5, 6, obtuse, contorted. Stamens 12. Germen free, 5, 6-celled 

 and other characters of Miconia. Fruit . . . ? — A hirsute or for the 

 most part ferruginous-sericeous shrub ; leaves oblong petiolate, den- 

 ticulate, 6-7-nerved, hairy beneath; flowers* collected in short 

 capituliform spikes ; sericeous bracts rather longer than flowers, 

 connivent in involucre, imbricate.' [Venezuela.^) 



34? Catocoryne Hook, f.' — "Flowers 5-merous ; receptacle 



' Rather large, moderate or very small, red, tinea), 706 (Oetomeris), 715, 718 {Deearaphe), 



pink, white or yellow. 722 {Oxymeris, Cremanium, Sartigia) j Ann. ii. 



2 Spec, ahout 30. Aubl. Guian. t. 170 (Mela- 609 ; iii. 888 {Chitonia), 889 (Sarcomeris, Tetra- 



stoma).—B. Melast. 1. 1, 6-10, 12-16, 18, 19, 20- iM/s/ia) ; iv. 696 {Cali/cogoniim,), 700 {GhalybecC), 



24. 31-34, 41, 42, 44, 46, 48, 61, 54, 87.— EiCH. 702 {Conostegia), 706, 761 (Cyanophyllum), 770 



'Act. Soe. Sist. Nat. Far. 109. — Mart. Nov. Gen. (Octomeris), 773 (Leandra, Tschvdya), 780 {Cha- 



etSp. iii. t. 276 [Graffenrieda), 282 {Clidemia), rianthm). 



283 (Leandra), 286 (Oa^meris).— Benth. Sulph. ' Ex B. H. Oen. 766, n. Ill ; Melast. 97. 



t. 34 (Glidemia).—^ooK. Kew Journ. i. t. 12 <""Wiite." 



{Tetrazygia) ; Sot. Mag. t. 4383 (Tetrazygia).— » Gen. hence very near Toeoca, thence to Mi- 



A.Hics. Fl. Cub. t.iUCalyeogonium). — Gkiseb. eonia, differing from hoth chiefly in bracteate 



\Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 249 {Clidemia), 260 ( Tschudga), capitulea and unequal sepals. 



261 {Cremanium), 263 {Charianthus); Fl. Wright. ' Spec. 1. A. bracteosa Tki. loc. cU.— Octomeris 



Cub. 183. — VP'alp. Rep. ii. 137 [leandra), 140 bracteosa Naud. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xvii. 379. 



(Jucunda), Ue, 147 {Oxymeris), v. 698 (Augus- 7 Ge,. 765, n. 109.— Tbi. Melast. 134. 



