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loaves ovato-lanceolate attenuato-acuminate round 

 ed at the base entire 3-nerved besides an ob- 

 scure marginal pair subglabrous, thyrse longer 

 than the leaves with the branches fastigiate, sta- 

 mens 10, style twice the length of the calyx. 



Melastoma quadrangularis, Swartz, Fl. Ind Occ. 776. 



II A B. Blue Mountain range. 



F L. February — May. 



About 12 feet in height. Leaves 5-6 inches long and 

 1 J broad, decussating, dark green and minutely punctu- 

 lated above, lepidose with a yellow tinge beneath : pe- 

 tiole an inch and a half long, coloured. Thyrse erect : 

 branches 3-chotomous. Flowers white, small, with a yel- 

 lowish tinge, subsessile. CJalycine teeth 5. Petals oval. 

 Anthers bursting longitudinally. Style twice the length of 

 the calyx : stigma capitate, umbilicated, depressed. 

 Fruit size of a coriander seed, purple, pruinose. 



2. Chaenopleura Stelligera. Stellated Ch<e- 

 nopleura. 



Branches compressed tetragonal ferrugineo- 

 furfuraceous with minute stellated hairs, leaves 

 oblongo-ovate subcordate minutely glanduloso- 

 dentate 3-nerved, thyrse terminal, flowers decan- 

 drous, style striated, berry spherical ferrugineo- 

 farinose. 



HAB. Portland woods. 



F L. April. 



A shrub about 8 feet in height. Leaves subacuminate, 

 stiff, fragile, glabrous with exception of the under surface 

 of the nerves which is ferrugineo-scabrous, 6 inches long 

 and 2\ broad : petiole terete. Panicle erect ; peduncle 

 and its divisions ferrugineo-tomentose. Flowers pedi- 

 celled : pedicels half an inch in length, bracteolated. 

 Calyx ferrugineo-hirsute, 5-toothed. Petals 5, obovate, 

 concave, reflected. Stamens longer than the petals : fila- 

 ments toeneiform : anthers oblong, white, opening by a 

 longitudinal fissure, being widest at the apex : pollen 

 white. Style angular: stigma simple. Berry size of a 



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