MELASTOMACEiE. 



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tomentose ; its branches spreading, the ultimate divisions terminated 

 by small and dense glomerules of sessile or subsessile flowers. Calyx 

 scarcely a line in diameter, hispid with short and spreading hairs, 

 campanulate ; the 5 teeth subulate and recurved, furnished with short 

 and rounded, adnate, internal appendages. Petals 5, lanceolate and 

 very sharply acuminate, small. Anthers 10, oblong. Ovary three- 

 celled, hispid at the base of the style. Fruit not seen. 



10. Clidemia ch.etocalyx, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 74.) 



G. ramulis gracillimis teretibus, junioribus pube stellata furfuraceo- 

 puberulis; foliis (cujusque jugi sospe itiwqualibus) longe petiolatis 

 membranaceis ovatis seu lanceolato-ovatis acuminatis subcordatis quin- 

 quenerviis glabris setoso-ciliatis ; paniculis terminalibus paucifloris 

 laxis ; pedunculis pedicellisque setoso-hispidis ; calyce setosissimo, 

 dentibus aristatformibus tubo campanulato longioribus basi cum appen- 

 dicibus internis lanceolatis parvis coalitis; petalis subulato-acumina- 

 tissimis; ovario trilocidari. 



Hab. Brazil ; in the Organ Mountains. 



Stem herbaceous? Branchlets slender, terete, diffuse; the older 

 glabrate ; the younger ones clothed with a minute and furfuraceous 

 stellular pubescence. Leaves (of the same pair often unequal, sometimes 

 equal), long-petioled (the slender petioles about an inch long, puberu- 

 lent like the branchlets), thin and membranaceous, ovate or lanceolate, 

 ovate, acuminate, subcordate with a narrow sinus, about 2 inches long, 

 green both sides, glabrous or nearly so, except the 5 ribs, which are 

 puberulent underneath and often hispid-bearded next their origin; 

 the innermost arising a little above the base; the margin entire, 

 ciliate with long and spreading bristles. Panicle terminal, or becoming 

 lateral by innovation, small, short-peduncled, loose, few-flowered; the 

 slender and spreading peduncles and pedicels strongly hispid with long 

 and spreading bristles, and stellately puberulent. Bracts linear, 

 setose-ciliate. Calyx strongly setose-hispid ; the tube campamdate or 

 somewhat hemispherical, a line and a half long; its truncate margin 

 bearing 5 awn-shaped teeth, of 2 (or in fruit 3) lines long, spreading, 

 sparsely setose, each with a small and fragile internal appendage semi- 



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