MELASTOMACEiE. 99 



the characters of the genus, at the time when established, 

 being imperfectly known. 



1. Adelobotrys scandens. Scandent Adelo- 

 botrys. 



Melastoma scandens, Swartz, Ft. Ind. Occ. 772. — Aubl. 

 Guian. i. 435. t. 172. — Adelobotrys scandens, DC. Prod* 

 III. 127. 



H A B. Damp mountain woods. 



FL. April. 



Shrubby, 20-30 feet in height, attached by fibrous roots 

 to the stems of trees, terete, sparingly branched : branches 

 subtelragonal, sparingly ferrugineo-pubescent when young. 

 Leaves opposite, petiolate, broad-ovate, acuminate, nar- 

 rowing towards the base, rufo-ciliated and obscurely den- 

 ticulated, 5 nerved including the marginal pair, nervoso- 

 bullate, shining above, occasionally setose along the under 

 surface of the nerves, 3-5-inches long : petiole rather 

 short, ferrugineo-pubescent, with a stipulary line of hairs 

 connecting on each side the petioles. Racemes terminal : 

 common peduncle tetragonal, ferrugineo-pubescent : divi- 

 sions bearing in an umbellule or cyme 8-10 shortly pedi- 

 celled showy flowers, white tinged with pink. Calyx 

 small, subcampanulate : limb spreading, obscurely and 

 bluntly 5-toothed, minutely puberulous. Petals 5, oblong, 

 obtuse, concave. Stamens 10, declinate : filaments broad, 

 purple : anthers bifurcated (bi-setose), and biporose at the 

 apex, with the connective embracing, twice the length of 

 the anthers, subulate, membranaceous. Ovary oblong, 

 pubescent: style thick: stigma obtuse, pruinose. Cap- 

 sule oblong, striated, 5-celIed, crowned with the truncated 

 pentagonal calyx. 



This is a very beautiful plant, readily attracting the eye 

 in our damp woods, especially on the North-Side of the 

 Island. 



Tribe hi. MICONIjE {p. 43.) 

 4. Clidemia agrestis. Wild Clidemia. 



(Place of insertion, after C. Strigillosa, p. 45.) 



Branchlets tetragonal hirsute, leaves ovate acu- 

 minate rounded and subcordate at the base ser- 



