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CALYCIFLORjE. 



a coriander seed, black, purple, 5-celIed : seeds minute, 

 wedge-shaped, whitish, numerous. 



This approaches very closely to the Clidemia Lima of 

 OeCandolle, a native of the Caribean Islands. 



IV. Calycogoxium. 



Calycine tube subglobose 4-5-sided with the 

 angles acute and continuous with the mid-rib of 

 the lobes, subaccrete : lobes 4-5, spreading, ob- 

 longo-linear, longer than the tube. Petals 4-5, 

 obovate. Stamens 8-10, equal : anthers oblong, 

 I -pored. Stigma punctiform, Berry subrotund, 

 angular, crowned with the lobes of the calyx, 

 4-5-celled. Seeds ovato-angular, with a linear- 

 hiium.— DC. 



Name from *aXw| the calyx, and ywvia an angle. 



1. Caly oogonium glabratum. Glabrous Caly- 

 cogonium. 



Branches subterete glabrous, leaves elliptico- 

 lanceolate attenuated at the base sub-entire ob- 

 scurely triply-nerved subcoriaceous, peduncles 

 terminal shorter than the petiole subsolitary 1- 

 flowered, calycine lobes subulate. 



Melastoma glabra, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 806. — Prod, 

 ejusd. 71. — Calycogonium glabratum, DC. Prod. III. 



168. 



II AB. Salt-Hill Pastures, and Halberstadt; Port-Royal 

 Mountains. 



F I, August. Towards the end of the year, Swartz. 



A shrub about six feet in height : branches erect, stiff, 

 glabrous, ash-coloured, compressed at the end. Leaves 

 an inch and a half in length, and three-fourths of an inch 

 in breadth, opposite, shortly petiolate, elliptico-oblong 

 with the apex bluntish, attenuated at the base, subenlire, 

 glabrous, punctulated beneath, apparently nerveless on 

 the upper surface, 3-ply nerved, on the under, with an 

 oval brown membranaceous excavated glandule in the 



