60 CALYCIFLOR^. 



6. Tetrazygia angustifolia. Narrow-leaved 

 Tetrazygia. 



Branches terete with the petioles and under 

 surface of the leaves most minutely stellato-pubes- 

 cent, leaves lineari-lanceolate with the margin 

 revolute very entire flavo-punctulated above 

 3-neived with the lateral nerves close to the 

 margin, cymes paniculato-corymbose terminal, 

 limb of the sub-globose calyx 4-toothed — DC, 



Melastoma angustifolia, Swartz, Fl. lnd. Occ. 770. 



HAB. ? 



F. L. ? 



Leaves 1-2 inches in length, rugose and glabrous 

 above, hoary beneath. Flowers pedicel led, crowded, 

 small, lutescent Petals subrotund. — Swartz. According 

 to other Botanists, the petals are obovate, and white with 

 a rose-tinge. — DC. 



VIII. Harrera. 



Calyx where it adheres to the ovary globu- 

 lar : tube contracted and produced 5 limb ex- 

 panded, 5-rarely 4-toothed with the t< eth insert- 

 ed below the margin Petals 5, rarely 4, round- 

 ed. Stamens 8-iO, declinate : anthers one- 

 pored, sub-auriculated at the base. Ovary um- 

 bilicated. Capsule berried, 3-6-celled : seeds 

 wedge-shaped. 



I am unwilling to institute a new genus: but the plants 

 comprehended under this head do not. app3ar to me to be 

 referable to any of those already established. From the 

 fruit, with the calyx, resembling in shape the Spanish jar, 

 so commonly used by us to keep water cool, I have de- 

 rived the generic designation from the Spanish Jarreho, 

 which means a maker of Jars. I may add that in 

 Spanish, J has a gutteral sound like that of H, strongly 

 asperate^. 1 have therefore, in Latinizing the original 

 word, substituted the latter, for the former letter. 



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