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* CENTRADENIA rosea. 
Rose-coloured Centradenia. 
OCTAN.DRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Melastomacea;. 
CENTRADENIA. G. Don. Calyx tubo subtetragono-campanulato, 
libero, limbi quadripartiti laciniis late triangularibus, acutis. Corollas pe- 
tala 4, calycis fauci inserta, ejusdem laciniis alterna, obovata. Stamina 8, 
cum petalis inserta, alterna iisdem opposita minora ; antherce ellipticse, uni- 
porosse, majores connectivo in calcar elongato-cuneatum, minores in appen- 
dicem glandulseformem productse. Ovarium liberum, vertice setarum verti- 
cillo simplici, quadriloculare, loculis multiovulatis. Stylus brevis ; stigma 
subcapitatum. Capsula calyce vestita quadrilocularis, loculicide quadrivalvis. 
Semina plurima, clavato-elliptica, echinata, umbilico basilari. Suffrutex 
mexicanus ; ramis tetragonis, pilosis, foliis oppositis, altero minimo, altero 
multo majore, ramum ex axilla explicante, oblong o-lanceolatis, acutis, valde 
incequilateris, integerrimis, ciliatis, membranaceis, triplinerviis, racemis axilla- 
ribus paucifloris. Endlicker Genera, no. 6178. 
C. rosea; foliis ovato-lanceolatis valde ineequilateris, racemis subcorymbosis 
terminalibus foliis supremis longioribus, petalis ovario duplo longioribus. 
A pretty greenhouse half shrubby plant, introduced from 
Mexico by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., Nurserymen of 
Exeter, by whom it was sent in flower to the Horticultural 
Society in January last. 
When allowed to blossom quietly in a cool greenhouse it 
forms a deep green bush, studded all over with gay flesh- 
coloured stars ; but as the petals easily fall, the plant does 
not bear travelling well. 
It is a soft-wooded species, growing a foot or so high in 
sandy peat, and striking readily from cuttings. As far as we 
* Apparently thus called in allusion to the glandular appendage of 
the anthers ; from xeyrpov a spur, and alrjv a gland. 
