MELASTOMACE^. 59 



' 40. Meriania Sw.' — Flowers 5-merous;^ receptacle hemispherical, 

 cyathiform or campanulate ; calyx entire or 6-lobed, accessory teeth 

 sometimes 5, free or more or less adnate. Petals oblong or obovate, 

 connivent in spuriously campanulate corolla, free. Stamens 10 ; 

 connective not produced, furnished posteriorly with a simple or spurred 

 (Eumenania) appendage, sometimes erect, parallel to anther [Adelo- 

 botrys '), or thick conical enlarged {Axincea *). Germen 3-5-celled, 

 free ; style slender or rather thick (Axincea), at apex stigmatose trun- 

 cate or punctiform. Capsule 3-5-valved ; seeds cuneate, clavate, 

 pyramidal or linear. — Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing (Adelo- 

 botrijs); leaves petiolate, ovate or oblong, entire or serrate, 3-5-nerved; 

 flowers ' in terminal or lateral more or less ramosely cymiferous 

 racemes. {Trop. America.^) 



41. Huberia DC — Flowers 4-merous; receptacle urceolate, 

 narrowed to neck, sometimes costate alate. Sepals 4, rather broad. 

 Petals 4, longer than calyx, much contorted. Stamens 8, the oppositi- 

 petalous scarcely shorter ; anthers incurved elongate ; cells undulate 

 within ; connective not produced below anthers, furnished externally 

 at base with subulate appendage. Germen free except quite at base, 

 4-celled; style slender, at apex stigmatose not dilated. Capsule 

 enclosed by indurate receptacle, 4-valved. Seeds oo , sometimes im- 

 bricate, produced on both sides to an elongate wing, or more rarely 

 exalate {Opisthoeentra). — Glabrous or viscose shrubs ; leaves opposite 

 petiolate, entire or serrate, coriaceous penninerved ; flowers* generally 

 in 3-flowered cymes, long-stipitate. (Brazil.^) 



* -F^. Iiid. Oce. a. 823, t. 15. — DC. F,odr. iii. showy, white, yellow, pink, red or purple. 



100.— Ekdl. Gen. n. 6169.— Nadd. Aim.Sc.Nat. « Spec, about 45. Aubl. Guian. t. 172 {Mela- 



ser. 3, xviii. 124, t. 6.— B. H. Gen. 749, n. 56. — stoma).— Sr^. Prodr. 61 {Rhexia). — B'esbx. Diet. 



Tki. Me/ast. 65, t.5, fig. 55. — Paehymeria Benth. iv. 35 {Melastoma). — B. Shex. t. 4. — Deless. le. 



Tl. Harticeg. 130. — Adelbertia Meissn. Gen. 114 ; Sel. v. t. 2 {Ghasten<Ba).r-Tvss. Fl. Ant. t. 61. — 



Corrnn. 81. — Notocentrum Naud. loc. cit. xviii. DC. Mem. M^ast, 18, t. 3 (Davya). — Griseb. 



131. — Bavya Naud. he. eii. xviii. ISi.—Schwe- Fl. Biit. W.-Jnd. 264 (DoByo.)!— Walp. Sep. ii. 



rinia Kaust. Fl. Columb. i. 35, t. 18. 117 ; v. 676, 677 {Chastencea) ; Ann. iv. 783 



^ Seldom Fachymeria 4-merous. {ChaxtenCBa), 785. 



s DO. Prodr. iii. 127.— E.n'dl. Gen. n. 6207.— ' Prodr. iii. 165 ; Mem. MSlastA. 10.— Endl. 



B. H. Geii. 750, n. 57.— Tri. Mtlast. 67, t. 5, Gen. n. 6176.— Naud. Ai,ii. So. Nat. ser. 3, xv. 



fig. 56.— Sarmentaria Naud. loc. cit. xviii. 140. 336; xvi. t. 25. — B. H. Gen. 748, n. 51.— Tri. 



4 R et Pat. Prodr. iv. t. 409-413 ; Syst. 122. Melaat. 65, t. 5, fig. 52. — Wpisthocentra Hoox. f. 



—Don, Mem. Wern. Soc. iv. 319.— DC. Prodr. Gen. 749, n. 54.— Tri. Melast. 65. 



iii. 101. — Enhl. Gen. n. 6170. — Naud. loc. cit. s "wrhite or red, rather large, 



xviii. 123.— B. H. Gen. 749, n. 59.— Tri. Melast. « Spec. 3. Presl. -Sfym*. i. 68, t. 37.— Mart. 



68, t. 5, fig. 51 .—Chmtentea DC. Prodr. iii. 102. Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. 146, t. 276.— Walp. Sep. ii. 



—Endl. Gen. u. 6171.— Naud. foe. cit. xviii. 119. 118 ; Jim. iii. 887. 



° Kather large, crowded, sometimea large. 



