4G 
CALYCIFLOR/E. 
a coriander seed, black, purple, 5-ceIIed : seeds minute, 
wedge-shaped, whitish, numerous. 
This approaches very closely to the Clidemia Lima of 
DeCandolie, a native of the Caribean Islands. 
IV. Calycogonium. 
Calycine tube subglobose 4-5-sided with the 
angles acute and continuous with the mid-rib of 
the lobes, subaccrete: lobes 4-5, spreading, ob- 
longo-linear, longer ‘than the tube. Petals 4-5, 
obovate. Stamens 8-10, equal : anthers oblong, 
l -pored. Stigma punctiform. Berry subrotund, 
angular, crowned with the lobes of the calyx, 
4-5-celled. Seeds ovato-angular, with a linear- 
hiliim. — DC. 
Name from the calyx, and an angle. 
1. Calycogonium glabratum. Glabrous Caly- 
cogonium. 
Branches subterete glabrous, leaves elliptico- 
lanceolate attenuated at the base sub-entire ob- 
scurely triply-nerved subcoriaceous, peduncles 
terminal shorter than the petiole subsolitary I- 
flowered, calycine lobes subulate. 
Melastoma glabra, Swartz, FI. Ind. Occ. 80G. — Prod, 
ejusd. 71. — Calycogonium glabratum, DC. Prod. III. 
168. 
HAD. Salt-Hill Pastures, and Halberstadt; Port-Royal 
Mountains. 
F L. August. Towards the end of the year, Swartz. 
A shrub about six feet in height: branches erect, stiff, 
glabrous, ash-coloured, compressed at the end. Leaves 
an inch and a half in length, and three-fourths of an inch 
in breadth, opposite, shortly petiolate, elliptico-oblong 
with the apex bluntish, attenuated at the base, subentire, 
glabrous, punctulated beneath, apparently nerveless on 
the upper surface, 3-ply-ncrved, on the under, with an 
oval brown membranaceous excavated trlandulc in the 
