MBLASTOMACEjE. 
S)5 
subsessile small, calycine teeth 5, petals 5 ovate 
white, stigma capitato-depretsed, berry minute 
azure-blue. 
Melastorna splendens, Swartz , FI. Ind. Occ. 798. 
II A B Mountain woods. 
FL. Autumn. 
XV. Blakea. 
Calyx campanulate, surrounded at the base 
with 4-6 broad scales arranged in a cruciate or 
triple order, with the limb persistent, membrana- 
ceous, 6-lobed or 6-dentate. Petals 6. Anthers 
large, connected in a ring, obtuse and hiant with 
two pores at the apex, furnished at the base with 
a short spur-like process. Capsule berried, 
crowned with the calyx, 6-celled : seeds ovato- 
angulated. — DC. 
learned by Dr. Patrick Browne in honor of Mr. Martin 
Blake of Antigua, a promoter of science, and a patron of 
the Doctor’s Natural History of Jamaica. 
1. Blakea trinervia 7 hree-nerved Blakea. 
Leaves oblongo-ovate 3-nerved, when adult 
glabrous and shining, when young serrulated and 
rufo-tomentose especially the under surface of 
the nerves, peduncles solitary longer than the 
petiole, scales longer than the calyx. 
Blakea foliis ellipticis, Browne, 323. t. 35. — B. trinervia 
Swartz, Obs. 18S. 
II A C. Mountain woods. 
F L. Throughout the year. 
A shrubby tree of irregular growth: branches support- 
ing themselves on neighbouring shrubs or rocks : rufo- 
tomentose at the extremity. Leaves opposite, petiolate, 
oblongo-ovate, subacuminate, subentire (minute teeth to 
be detected within the margin on the under surface.) very 
glabrous above, slightly hirsute especially along the 
nerves and minutely punctulatcd beneath : petiole terete, 
