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CALYCIFLORAJ. 
longer than the calycine lobes lanceolate acute 
white, filaments kneed, stigma blunt, berry minute 
subrotund 4-celled rufous. 
Mclastoma subhirsuta, foliis cordatis, scabris, minutis- 
sime denticulatis, Browne , t. 24. f. 3. — Melastoma scab- 
rosa, Swartz , Ohs. 174. — Ossaea scabrosa, DC. Prod. 111. 
169. 
II A B. The Mountains, on wet banks. Sulphur river, 
Balh. 
F L. November, December. 
Stem 4-5 feet in height: branches ferruginous. Leaves 
rather large, triply-nerved with a marginal pair : petioles 
long, round, thick, hirsute. Flowers principally in the 
situation of the axillae of the leaves which have dropt off, 
(MO, rather obscure, sessile. Petals acute, bisetose at 
the apex, tinged with purple. Filaments longer than the 
petals. Style thick, erect, crimson : stigma simple. 
Berry minute, spherical, crowned with the calyx, hairy, 
4 celled. 
2. Gsscea pratensis. Meadow Osswa. 
Stem shrubby hirsute, branches terete as also 
the petioles ferrugineo-tomentose, leaves ovate 
obtuse entire 3-ply-nerved rugose tomentoso-hir- 
sute, peduncles in threes axillary each one-flow- 
ered filiform pilose, calyx tomentose with 4 su- 
bulate teeth, petals 4 ovato-lanceolate, stamens 
10, berry blackish purple hairy 4-celled. 
II AB. Pastures of Shenton and Tulloch, St. Thomas 
in the Vale. 
F L. End of the vear. 
Stem shrubby, 2-3 feet high : branches opposite, spread- 
ing, subdistichal, terete, ferrugineo-tomentose. Leaves 
opposite, shortly petiolate, ovate, obtuse, entire, rugulose, 
tomentoso hirsute : petiole tomentose. Flowersaxillary, 
peduncled : peduncles 3 together ; each one-flowered, 
filiform, pilose ; the middle peduncle short ; the lateral 
ones an inch in length. Calyx externally piloso-tomen- 
tosc. Petals white, acute, caducous. Anthers yellow, 
style erect, club-shaped: stigma simple. Berry size of 
a black currant, purple, hairy. 
