MELASTOMACEiE. 
99 
the characters of the genus, at the time when established, 
being imperfectly known. 
1* Adelobotrys scandens. Scandent Adelo - 
botrys. 
Melasloma scandens, Swartz, FI. Ind. Occ. I12.—Aubl. 
Gitian. i. 435. t. 172. — Adelobotrys scandens, DC. Prod. 
111. 127. 
II A B. Damp mountain woods. 
F L. April. 
Shrubby, 20-30 feet in height, attached by fibrous roots 
to the stems of trees, terete, sparingly branched : branches 
subtetragonal, sparingly ferrugineo-pubescent when young. 
Leaves opposite, petiolate, broad-ovate, acuminate, nar- 
rowing towards the base, rufo-ciliated and obscurely den- 
ticulated, 5 nerved including the marginal pair, ncrvoso- 
bullate, shining above, occasionally setose along the under 
surface of the nerves, 3-5-inches long : petiole rather 
short, ferrugineo-pubescent, with a stipulary line of hairs 
connecting on each side the petioles. Racemes terminal : 
common peduncle tetragonal, ferrugineo-pubescent: divi- 
sions bearing in an umbellule or cyme 8-10 shortly pedi- 
celled showy flowers, white tinged with pink. Calyx 
small, subcampanulate : limb spreading, obscurely and 
bluntly 5-toothed, minutely puberulous. Petals 5, oblong, 
obtuse, concave. Stamens 10, decimate : filaments broad, 
purple : anthers bifurcated (bi-setose), and biporose at the 
apex, with the connective embracing, twice the length of 
the anthers, subulate, membranaceous. Ovary oblong, 
pubescent : style thick : stigma obtuse, pruinose. Cap- 
sule oblong, striated, 5-celled, crowned with the truncated 
pentagonal calyx. 
This is a very beautiful plant, readily attracting the eye 
in our damp woods, especially on the North-Side of the 
Island. 
Till BE III. MlCOm^E {p. 43.) 
4. Clidemia agrestis. Wild Clidemia. 
{Place of insertion, after C. Strigillosa, p. 45.) 
Brancldets tetragonal hirsute, leaves ovate acu- 
minate rounded and subcordate_ at the base ser- 
