01 CALYClFLORifJ. 



drical : stigma a pruinose point. Capsule berried, 

 5-8-celled, globular, crowned with the calyx. 



Name from hsgos diverse and ff <x s £ hairs ; referring 

 to a peculiarity in the plants of this Genus: there being 

 two descriptions of hairs, viz, a stellated pubescence 

 intermixed with rigid stiff seta?. 



I. Heterotrichum patens. American Goose- 

 berry. 



Branches petioles peduncles and calyces hir- 

 sute with glandulose seta?, intermixed with a mi- 

 nute subvelutine stellated pubescence, leaves cor- 

 date acuminate subdenticulated 7-nerved, scab- 

 rous above, albido-velutine beneath, cyme termi- 

 nal lax, flowers 6-8-fid, calycine lobes patent. 



Melastoma patens — Swartz, Fl. bid. Occ. 791. — Heter- 

 otrichum patens— DC. Prod. III. 173. 



H A B. Common in the mountains. 

 F L. Throughout the year. 



A shrub, 6-8 feet in height : branches spreading, pur- 

 pureo-erubescent on the upper side. Leaves 4-5 inches 

 in length, on a long petiole, 5-nerved besides the margi- 

 nal pair, reticulato-venose, deep green and hispid with 

 long capitate hairs, intermixed with a stellated pube- 

 scence on the upper surface, albido-tomentose with 

 a ferruginous tinge on the under: petiole 2 3 inches 

 long. (Jyme terminal, shorter than the leaves, erect ; 

 branches compressed, incano-tomentose, patulous, pedi- 

 cels three-fourths of an inch in length, jointed and 

 bibracteolated near the flower. Flowers rather few, 

 large. Calyx usually 6 fid : lobes rounded, each 

 bearing on the back an elongated subulate apicula ; 

 throat marked with a hexangular disk of a fawn colour, 

 with the angles alternating with the lobes of the calyx. 

 Petals usually 6, obovate, obtuse, veined, patent. Sta- 

 mens 12, declinate ; filaments crimson: anthers yellow. 

 Style declinate, longer than the stamens: stigma ex- 

 cavated. Berry size of a large black currant, black, 

 shining when ripe, hirsute with capitate hairs with a mi- 



