76 CALYCIFLOR^, 



obtuse. Berry size of a black pepper, 4-celled ; seeds nu- 

 merous, elongato-ovoid. 



2. Henriettea grandifolia* Large leaved 



Henriettea. 



Branches tetragonal sulcated, towards the end 

 ferrugineo-tomentose and farinose, leaves subses- 

 sile oval subacuminajte spathulate and attenuated 

 at the base entire 3-ply-nerved besides the mar- 

 ginal pair subglabrous above, ferrugineo-farinose 

 especially along the nerves beneath, flowers in 

 the axils of the old leaves pedicelled in clusters. 



Arbor mnxima, foliis a concursu nervorum ima parte 

 longius productis, subtus lanugine candicante tomentosis, 

 Pluk. Aim. 50. t 249. f. 2. — Melastoma foliis amplioribus 

 per petiolum recurrentibus et contractis, fasciculis florum 

 sparsis, Browne, 219. t. 29. f. 1. 2.— M. sessilifolia, Willd. 

 Sp. PI. II. 584. 



HAB. St, Mary's Woods, Dr. ITacNab. 



FL. 



Leaves about 10 inches long, and 6 broad, situated to- 

 wards the extremity of the branches. Pedicels ^ an inch 

 in length, one-flowered, clustered in the axils of the leaves 

 of a former year. Calyx obtusely 5-lobed, afterwards 

 subentire. Berry size of a black pepper, 5-celled : seeds 

 numerous, dry, very minute, wedge-shaped, with a brown 

 linear hilum. 



3. Henriettea. racemosa. Racemed Henri- 



ettea. 



Branches subtetragonal glabrous, leaves lan- 

 ceolate entire 3-ply-nerved besides a margin*! 

 pair glabrous, racemes in the axils of the old 

 !S or lateral. 



H A B. Wood-Side, St. Mary's. -Dr. MacXab. 

 F L. February. 



Branches leafy at the end. Leaves about 6 inches 

 long : petiole an inch in length. Racemes one or more 





