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liulli. India opposita, subdecussantia, pctiolala, interstitiis duplo lougiora, bi- ad qua- 
dripollicaria, supreina nunc valde approximate; maguitudine iuequuha, altera liempe 
ejusdem paris tertib vel dimidib breviore; fere ineinbrauacea, ovutu, acuminata, basi 
imequali acuta, extrorsum creualo-serrulata, serraturis aeutis, setula terminates, su¬ 
pra atrov iridia, lucula, setis liyalinis. brevibus, rectis conspersa, trisulcata; subtus palli- 
diora, saepeque purpurascentia, quinquenervia, nervis extimis grucillimis submargimi- 
libus; transversim venulosa, juxta tractus vasorum pilosula. Pctioli carnosi, graci- 
les, sulco an gusto exarati, sequales, folio dimidib vel triple breviores, laeves. Stijmla ? 
nulla?, nisi series transversalis eiliarum subulatarum, succulentarum, caulem inter peti- 
olorum insertioncs ambientium. Flores fig-2,3. idem disseetus fig. 4.) tros ad quinque, 
terminales, umbellati, ratione magnitudinis plant® sat magni, rosei, inodori, glabri, sul- 
fulti pari uno vel duobus foliolorum fioralium laneeolatorum, subsessilium, semipollica- 
riuiiK Prajloratio (fig. Ic onica, imbricata. Pedunculi carnosi, brevissimi, laeves, ru- 
fescentes, Calyx (fig. 0. idem staminibus inflexis fig. 7. idem ovario foecundato fig 9.) 
carnosus, laevis, obovatus, acute tetragouus, persistens, ad latera convexiusculus, ore trun¬ 
cate, ({iiadrato, juxta margiiics scindentes, nudos leviter exsciso ; angulis in dentes toti- 
dem desiuentihus porrectos, comprcssos, verticales, patentes, apice oblique truncatos, 
ciliatos setis simplicibus, hyaliuis, utrinque patenssimis, duplici serie dispositis, juxta 
angulos ipsius calycis quandoque decurrentibus. Petala (fig. 4.) quatuor, ovata, 
earnosa, Cuspidato-acuta, integerrima, patentissima, rosea, laevia, nitida, lineas qua¬ 
tuor emetientia, calyce duplo longiora, basi latiuscula infra ostium calycis inserta, denti- 
bus alternantia. Stamina (fig. 5, 6.) octo, petalis parum breviora, erecta, parallela, 
sequalia, serie simplici annulari equidistanter calyci inserta, dentibus calyeinis petalls- 
que alternatim opposita. Filamenta alba, filiformia, earnosa. Ant he rat confornies, sim- 
pi ices, erecta?, flavae, oblongo-cuneatae, nuda? et absque ullis appendicibus, basi acutius- 
culm, apice leviter dilatatA, subbiloba poris duobus, oblique bianlibus dehiscentes, rnstiva- 
tione una cum apicibus filamentorum recte deflexse. Ovarium (fig. 4, 5.) ovatum, earno- 
sum, dimidia inferiore parte (‘undo calycis arete accretum, superiore tetragouo-pyramida- 
tum, lateribus convexum, liberum, juxta margines ope mem bran uke angustissima?, brevis- 
sinue, demum evauidae, angulis intends sumini calycis adlnerens, unde celluke parietales 
quatuor formantur, antlieras, clauso adhuc 11 ore dellexas, per pares recipientes ; apice cou- 
tractum, truncatum, quadrilobum, lobis carnosis, brevissimis, lutiusculis, obtusissimis, 
ciliatis minutimque crenalis, in hiatum infundibuliformem, quadrangularem coumviMh- 
bus, post feemidationem ampliatis; quadriloculare; loctila rotunda, angulis exterioribus 
opposita, ovulis repleta sub-cylindricis, placentae axili, convex®, sessili, carnosae adlixis. 
Stylus brevis, rectus, cylindricus, laevis, deciduus, vertice quadriloba ovarii basi inelusus. 
perque axin inde decurrens. Stigma parvum, convexum, puberulum. Capsiila magni¬ 
tudes pisi communis, laevis, quadrata, excepta ipsa basi lata libera, inferiore demidia 
parte obtecta calyce paullo ampliato, desiccato, niembranaceo, angulis quatuor sursuiii 
valde prominentibus et porrectis notato, vertice coronata alis quatuor terminalibus, rotun- 
dato-ovatis, obtusis, levissime crenulatis, venulosis crectis, niargine contiguis ; quaclrilo- 
cularis, vertice quadrivalvis : value triangulares, dissepimeutis opposite, alis istis seorsim 
terminate. Dissepimenta angusta, teuuissima. Semina crebra, parva, fusca, cuueato- 
triangularia, basi acuta glabriora, verlieem obtusam versus punctis minutis, clevatis pa- 
pillosa, rcceptaculis axilibus inserta. 
Observation. 
I cannot refer the plant, which has just been described, to any of the established ge¬ 
nera of Melastomacea , although I have every reason to suppose, from hu> ing commu¬ 
nicated specimens to my inestimable friend Mr. A. B. Lambert, that it must be in¬ 
cluded among the descriptions of the new genera of that most difficult and extensive 
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