MELASTOMACEAS. 
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long and rather more than 1 broad, membranaceous, his- 
pidulous with minute stellated hairs along the under sur- 
face of the nerves : petiole one third of an inch in length. 
Peduncle and its divisions farinoso-puberulous. Flowers 
very small, white. Petals oblong. Stamens 10, erect. 
Berry size of a small coriander seed, 5-celled. 
XIV. Cremanium. 
Calycine lube campanulate or obovate adher- 
ing to the ovary ; limb persistent, 4-5 toothed. 
Petals 4-5, obovate. Stamens 10, equal : anthers 
short, somewhat wedge-shaped at the base, with- 
out. auricles, obtuse and bi-porose at the apex. 
Style filiform : stigma orbiculato-peltate. Cap- 
sule berried, 3-5-celled : seeds angular or ovate, 
with the hilum linear. 
Name , from x^Sjaaw to suspend; in allusion to the form 
of the anthers, being attenuated at the base, and enlarged 
towards the apex like pendants. 
1. Cremanium rubens. Erubescent Crema- 
nium. 
Very glabrous, brancldets tetragonal sulcated, 
leaves ovato-lanceolate acuminate denticulated 
3-nerved, panicle terminal subracemose, flowers 
dioecious 8-10-androus crowded. 
Melastoma foliis ovatis minutissime denticulatis, venis 
et ramulis purpurascentibus, Browne , 219. — M. rubens, 
Swartz, FI. hid. Occ. 797. — Cremanium rubens, DC. 
Prod. lit. 797. 
II A B, Cold damp situations, higher mountains. 
F L. August. 
A shrub G-10 feet in height: branches suberect, gla- 
brous : branchlets reddish. Leaves decussating, attenu- 
ated at the apex which is reflex, minutely and distantly 
denticulated, sub-rigid : petiole sulcated, coloured, with 
a small roundish glandule-like prominence on each side at 
the insertion. Peduncle tetragonal : divisions short, pa- 
tent, subdivided, coloured. Flowers minute, numerous, 
