MELASTOMACEjE. 
6 a 
broad : petiole an inch in length, terete, compressed, chan- 
nelled above, tinged with red, as also the under surface 
ot the nerves. Panicle 3-chotomously divided : branches 
erect, cymose. tetragonal. Calyptra conical, acute. Pe- 
tals fa, cuneiform, sub-retuse, flesh-coloured. Stamens 
18 ; filaments sub-erect, curved, crimson at the base ; an- 
thers erect, oblong, compressed. Ovary umbilicated : 
style thick, curved at the apex : stigma papillary. Fruit ? 
This is a showy species. It is one of those beautiful 
productions of Nature, which often unexpectedly gladden 
the eye of the Botanist, adorning the wildest solitudes. 
It approaches in its character the C. Balbisiana of 
Bertero. 
3. Conostegia procera. Lofty Conostegia. 
Glabrous, branchlets subtetragonal, leaves 
ovali-lanceolate acuminate entire 3-nerved with 
an obscure marginal pair, axils of the nerves be- 
neath bearded, thyrse-terminal, alibastrum o\ate 
acute, petals G, stamens 10. 
Melastorna -procera, Swartz, FI. Ind. Occ. 761. 
II A B. Road from Farm-Hill, to Radnor. 
F L. June — August. 
A tree, about 20 feet in height : branchlets glabrous, 
purpurascent. Leaves 4-5 inches long and 2 broad, acu- 
minate, entire, with a farinose sorus like tuft of ferrugi- 
neous woolly hairs in the axils of the nerves on the under 
surface. Thyrse terminal, of nearly the same length as 
the leaves : branches decussating, compressed, glabrous, 
with the terminal sub divisions 3 flowered. "Flowers 
large, pedicelled, white, tinged with crimson. Alibastrum 
acuminate. Petals deltoid, wedge-shaped at the base, 
truncated at the apex, with the outer angle producea, un- 
dulated. Stamens 16, sometimes 18, somewhat declinate : 
filaments teneiform, short: anthers linear, yellow, 1- 
pored. Ovary globular : style thick : stigma truncated. 
Capsule berried, 12-costate when partially dried, 6- 
celled. Seeds numerous, minute, wedge-shaped, angu- 
lar. 
I have no hesitation in referring this to the melastoma 
