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CLASS VIII— OCTANDRIA. 



ORDER I. MONOGYNIA. 



184. KHEXIA. Gen. pi. 636. {Melastomx.) 



Calix urceolate, 4 to 5-cleft. Petals % ob- 

 lique, inserted upon the calix. Anthers 

 declinate. Capsule setigerous, 4-celled, 

 included in the ventricose calix. Recepta- 

 cles subulate. Seeds numerous. (Stamina 

 sometimes 10.) — JSTutt. 



Mariana. i. R. s tem reddish, very hirsute ; leaves hirsute - 

 subpetiolate, oval-lanceolate, or lanceolate-li- 

 near, with a long, tubulous, smoothish calix. — 

 Mick, and Pursh. 



Icon. Pluk. mant. t. 428. f. 1. Lam. illustr. 

 283. f. 1. 



A handsome plant, from one to two feet high. Flowers pale 

 rose-red. In the fens of Jersey, common. Perennial. July, 



August. 



virginica. 2. R. stem winged-angular, covered with a few 

 scattered hairs ; leaves sessile, oval-lanceolate, 

 the little teeth bristled and distinctly ciliate-ser- 

 rate, sparingly hirsute, or sprinkled with hair. 

 — Mich. 



Icon. Bot. Mag. 968. Pluk. aim. t. 202. f. 8. 

 Lam. illustr. t. 283. f. 2. 



Resembles Xo. 1, very much, but is a much more elegant 

 plant, and has somewhat larger and deeper rose-red flowers, 

 with bright orange -yellow anthers. Both these species might 

 be readily cultivated in our gardens, by introducing a little 

 bog earth with them, and culture would doubtless render them 

 still more elegant In similar places with No. 1, in Jersey, very 

 common ; and in marshy low g-round west of the Delaware, 

 not unfrequent. Xo. 1, appears to be limited to Jersey. Pe- 

 rennial. July, August. 



