MELASTOMACE^. qqi 



15. SPENNERA, Mart. 

 1. Spennera paludosa, Mart y DC. 

 Hab. Rio Janeiro and Organ Mountains, Brazil : very common. 



16. TETRAMERIS, Naudin. 



1. Tetrameris Martian a, Naudin. 



Tetrameris Martiana, Naudin, in Ann. Sci. Nat. 1. c. 14, p. 121. 

 Arthostemma Martiusianum, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 137. 



Hab. Brazil ; in the Organ Mountains. 



17. MEL A STOMA, Burm. 

 1. Melastoma Taitense, DC. 



Melastoma Taitense, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 144 ; Quill. Zeph. Tait. p. 60; Naudin, in 



Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3, 13, p. 275. 

 M. Malabaihrica, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 33, & descr. in Guill. Zeph. Tait. 1. c. 



Hab. Tahiti, Society Islands; on dry ridges. 



" Flowers white ;" as is also said to be the case by Forster. 



2. Melastoma Vitiense, Naudin, I. c. 



Hab. Feejee Islands; Malolo, Ovolau, &c; both near the coast and 

 on mountains. Samoan Islands ; Savaii and Tutuila. 



The Feejee specimens are mostly smaller-leaved than those charac- 



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