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CALYCIFLORjE. 
Stamens 10-14 : filaments curved, crimson : anthers bright 
yellow. Ovary free, elongated, marked with 12 minute 
lines of pubescence : style thick, declinate : stigma de- 
pressed. Berry spherical, dry, 5-6-celled ; seeds ovate, 
obtuse ; hilum black. 
2. Diplochita rosea. Rose Diplochita. 
Branches tetragonal, together with the petioles 
peduncles and under surface of the leaves ferru- 
gineo-tomentose, leaves oblongo-lanceolate acu- 
minate 3-nerved entire, thyrse terminal, bractese 
obovate rounded at the apex deciduous, calyx 
externally tomentose, petals 5, stamens 10. 
II A B. Banks of the Itio-Grande. 
F L. January. 
An arborescent shrub. Leaves opposite, decussating, 
3-nerved with a marginal pair, glabrous above, tomentose 
and paler with a ferruginous tinge beneath : petiole an 
inch and a half in leng'h. Panicle terminal; divisions 
brachiate, with the terminal subdivision 3-fiowered. 
Bractem 2, inclosing the flower, obovate, rounded, con- 
cave, 3-nerved, incano-tomcntose, deciduous. Calycine 
lobes 5, obtuse, externally tomentose. Petals 5, scarlet, 
veined. Filaments yellow: anthers arcuate, thick to- 
wards the base. Fruit? 
3. Diplochita Fothergilla. Father gilV s Di- 
plochita. 
Branchlets subrotund, when young compressed 
and ferrugineo-velutine, leaves oval acuminate 
rounded at the base subentire 5-nerved glabrous 
above albido-velutine with a stellated pubescence 
beneath, thyrse panicled, branches of the pedun- 
cle tetragonal and sulcated velutine, bracteae and 
calyx albido-velutine with minute stellated hairs, 
stigma dilated subpeltate. 
Fothergilla mirabilis, AuU. Giiicin. I. 441. t. 175 — 
Melastoma Fothergilla, Rich, in Bonpl Mel. t. 32 — Di- 
plochita Fothergilla; 1)C. Procl. III. 170, 
