MELASTOMACEiE. 93 



Melastoma glandulosa. Swartz, FL Ind. Occ. 799. 



H AB. High Mountains. 



FL. 



Swartz states that the branchlets are disfigured by the 

 scars of the old leaves: that there is a fascicule of hairs 

 (glandules?) in the axils of the leaves: and that the 

 petioles are very hairy. 



4. Cremanium rigidum. Stiff-leaved Cre- 



manium. 



Branches stiff tetragonal ferrugineo-pulveru- 

 lent, leaves ovate rounded and subcordate at the 

 base obtuse denticulated 3-nerved stiff fragile 

 glabrous, panicle terminal many-flowered ferru- 

 gineo-hirsute, flowers decandrous, petals ovate 

 white, stamens longer than the petals. 



Melastoma rigidum, Swartz, FL Ind. Occ. 768. 



H A B Summit of the Blue Mountain range. 

 FL. June. 



About 6 feet in height. Branchlets coloured. Leaves 

 about 3-inches long, and 2 broad, submembranaceous, 

 glabrous except the under surface of the nerves which is 

 scabrons: petiole about half an inch long. Panicle ter- 

 minal length of the leaves, compound. Flowers pedi- 

 celled, white. Calycine teeth incurved after flowering, 

 persi.-tent. Petals 5, ovate, obtuse, concave, rather thick. 

 Anthers bi-porose. Style short, thick, striated : stigma 

 subcapitate, pubescent. Berry subrotund. 



5. Cremanium integrifolium. Entire-leaved 



Cremanium. 



Branchlets compressed ferrugineo-velutine, 

 leaves oblong acuminate rounded at the base 

 very entire 3-nerved besides the marginal pair 

 glabrous except the under surface especially of 

 the nerves which is sparingly and minutely stella- 

 to-puberulous, thyrse terminal branches short 

 simple 4-6 flowered, flowers sessile, stamens 10. 



