CALYCI FLORAS. 
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drical : stigma a pruinose point. Capsule berried, 
5-8-celled, globular, crowned with the calyx. 
Name from ersgog diverse and hairs ; referring 
to a peculiarity in the plants of this Genus: there being 
two descriptions of hairs, viz. a stellated pubescence 
intermixed with rigid stiff setm. 
1. Heterotrichum patens. American Goose- 
berry. 
Branches petioles peduncles and calyces hir- 
sute with glandulose setse, intermixed with a mi- 
nute subvelutine stellated pubescence, leaves cor- 
date acuminate subdenticulated 7-nerved, scab- 
rous above, albido-velutine beneath, cyme termi- 
nal lax, flowers G-8-fid, calycine lobes patent. 
Melastoma patens — Swartz, FI. lnd. Occ. 791. — Heter- 
otrichum patens — DC. Prod. 111. 173. 
If A II. Common in the mountains. 
P L. Throughout the year. 
A shrub, 6-8 feet in height : branches spreading, pur- 
pureo-erubescent on the upper side. Leaves 4-5 inches 
in length, on a long petiole, 5-nerved besides the margi- 
nal pair, reticulato-venose, deep green and hispid with 
long capitate hairs, intermixed with a stellated pube- 
scence on the upper surface, albido-tomentose with 
a ferruginous tinge on the under :■ petiole 2 3 inches 
long. Cyme terminal, shorter than the leaves, erect ; 
branches compressed, incano-tomentose, patulous, pedi- 
cels three-fourths of an inch in length, jointed and 
bibracteolated near the flower. Flowers rather few, 
large. Calyx usually 6 fid : lobes rounded, each 
bearing on the back on elongated subulate apicula ; 
throat marked with a hexangular disk of a fawn colour, 
with the angles alternating with the lobes of the calyx. 
Petals usually G, obovate, obtuse, veined, patent. Sta- 
mens 12, declinate ; filaments crimson: anthers yellow. 
Style declinate, longer than the stamens: stigma ex- 
cavated. Berry size of a large black currant, black, 
shining when ripe, hirsute with capitate hairs with a mi- 
