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leaves ovato-lanceolate attenuato-acuminate round 
ed at the base entire 3-nerved besides an ob- 
scure marginal pair subglabrous, thyrse longer 
than the leaves with the branches fastigiate, sta- 
mens 10, style twice the length of the calyx. 
Melastoma quadrangularis, Swartz, FI. lnd Occ. 776. 
II A B. Blue Mountain range. 
F L. February — May. 
About 12 feet in height. Leaves 5-6 inches long and 
1 1 broad, decussating, dark green and minutely punctu- 
lated above, lepidose with a yellow tinge beneath : pe- 
tiole an inch and a half long, coloured. Thyrse erect : 
branches 3-chotomous. Flowers white, small, with a yel- 
lowish tinge, subsessile. Calycine teeth 5. Petals oval. 
Anthers bursting longitudinally. Style twice the length of 
the calyx : stigma capitate, umbilicated, depressed. 
Fruit size of a coriander seed, purple, pruinose. 
2. Chaenoplcura Stelligera. Stellated Clue- 
nopleura. 
Branches compressed tetragonal ferrugineo- 
furfuraceous with minute stellated hairs, leaves 
oblongo-ovate subcordate minutely glanduloso- 
dentate 3-nerved, thyrse terminal, flowers decan- 
drous, style striated, herry spherical ferrugineo- 
farinose. 
H A B. Portland woods. 
F L. April. 
A shrub about 8 feet in height. Leaves subacuminate, 
stiff, fragile, glabrous with exception of the under surface 
of the nerves which is ferrugineo-scabrous, 6 inches long 
and 2£ broad : petiole terete. Panicle erect ; peduncle 
and its divisions ferrugineo-tomentose. Flowers pedi- 
celled : pedicels half an inch in length, bracteolated. 
Calyx ferrugineo-hirsute, 5-toothed. Petals 5, obovate, 
concave, reflected. Stamens longer than the petals : fila- 
ments tasneiform : anthers oblong, white, opening by a 
longitudinal fissure, being widest at the apex : pollen 
white. Style angular: stigma simple. Berry size of a 
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