74 CALYCIFLOR^. 



Stamens 10-14: filaments curved, crimson : anthers bright 

 yellow. Ovary free, elongated, marked with 12 minute 

 lines of pubescence : style thick, declinate : stigma de- 

 pressed. Berry spherical, dry, 5-6-celled ; seeds ovate, 

 obtuse ; hilum black. 



2. Diplochita rosea. Rose Diplochita. 



Branches tetragonal, together with the petioles 

 peduncles and under surface of the leaves ferru- 

 gineo-tomentose, leaves oblongo-lanceolate acu- 

 minate 3-nerved entire, thyrse terminal, bractese 

 obovate rounded at the apex deciduous, calyx 

 externally tomentose, petals 5, stamens 10. 



H A B. Banks of the Rio- Grande. 



F L. January. 



An arborescent shrub. Leaves opposite, decussating, 

 3-nerved with a marginal pair, glabrous above, tomentose 

 and paler with a ferruginous tinge beneath : petiole an 

 inch and a half in leng'h. Panicle terminal; divisions 

 brachiate, with the terminal subdivision 3-flowered. 

 Bractese 2, inclosing the flower, obovate, rounded, con- 

 cave, 3-nerved, incano-tomentose, deciduous. Calycine 

 lobes 5, obtuse, externally tomentose. Petals 5, scarlet, 

 veined. Filaments yellow: anthers arcuate, thick to- 

 wards the base. Fruit ? 



3. Diplochita Fothergilla. FothergilVs Di- 

 plochita. 



Branchlets subrotund,when young compressed 

 and ferrugineo-velutine, leaves oval acuminate 

 rounded at the base subentire 5-nerved glabrous 

 above albido-velutine with a stellated pubescence 

 beneath, thyrse panicled, branches of the pedun- 

 cle tetragonal and sulcated velutine, bractese and 

 calyx albido-velutine with minute stellated hairs, 

 stigma dilated subpeltate. 



Fothergilla mirabilis, Aubl. Guian. I. 441. t. 175— 

 Melastoma Fothergilla, Rich, in Bonpl Mel. t. 32 — Di- 

 plopia Fothergilla; DC. Prod. III. 176, 



