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long and rather more than 1 broad, membranaceous, his- 

 pidulous with minute stellated hairs along the under sur- 

 face of the nerves : petiole one third of an inch in length. 

 Peduncle and its divisions farinoso-p'uberulous. Flowers 

 very small, white. Petals oblong. Stamens 10, erect. 

 Berry size of a small coriander seed, 5-celled. 



XIV. Cremanium. 



Calycine lube campanulate or obovate adher- 

 ing to the ovary 5 limb persistent, 4-5 toothed. 

 Petals 4-5, obovate. Stamens 10, equal : anthers 

 short, somewhat wedge-shaped at the base, with- 

 out auricles, obtuse and bi-porose at the apex. 

 Style filiform : stigma orbiculato-peltate. Cap- 

 sule berried, 3-5-celled : seeds angular or ovate, 

 with the hiium linear. 



Name, from x^sjxaw to suspend; in allusion to the form 

 of the anthers, being attenuated at the base, and enlarged 

 towards the apex like pendants. 



1. Cremanium rubens. Erubescent Crema- 

 nium, 



Very glabrous, branchlets tetragonal sulcated, 

 leaves ovato-Ianceolate acuminate denticulated 

 3-nerved, panicle terminal subracemose, flowers 

 dioecious 8-10-androus crowded. 



Melastoma foliis ovatis minutissime denticulatis, venis 

 et ramulis purpurascentibus, Browne, 219. — M. rubens, 

 Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 797. — Cremanium rubens, DC. 

 Prod. III. 797. 



H A B. Cold damp situations, higher mountains. 



F L. August. 



A shrub 6-10 feet in height: branches suberect, gla- 

 brous : branchlets reddish. Leaves decussating, attenu- 

 ated at the apex which is reflex, minutely and distantly 

 denticulated, sub-rigid :' petiole sulcated, coloured, with 

 a small roundish glandule-like prominence on each side at 

 the insertion. Peduncle tetragonal : divisions short, pa- 

 tent, subdivided, coloured. Flowers minute, numerous, 



