. The natural history of plants. Botany. Mierolieia [Zav^iisiera) australU. MELASTOMACE^. 9 prolonged or dilated, and bearing the pore of dehiscence. The op- positipetalous stamens are smaller than the five others. The ovary is 3-5-celled. The flowers are solitary, axilar or ter- minal. To this genus we refer as sections: Rhyn- canthera, the flowers of which are united in clusters of cymes, and have ten stamens but often partly sterile ; those remaining fertile numbering from one to six; Trembkya, having solitary flowers, ten fertile stamens and 3-5 cells in the ovary. Lavoisier a, hav- ing mo
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Mierolieia [Zav^iisiera) australU. MELASTOMACE^. 9 prolonged or dilated, and bearing the pore of dehiscence. The op- positipetalous stamens are smaller than the five others. The ovary is 3-5-celled. The flowers are solitary, axilar or ter- minal. To this genus we refer as sections: Rhyn- canthera, the flowers of which are united in clusters of cymes, and have ten stamens but often partly sterile ; those remaining fertile numbering from one to six; Trembkya, having solitary flowers, ten fertile stamens and 3-5 cells in the ovary. Lavoisier a, hav- ing most frequently solitary, terminal flowers of large size, with 10 to 15 stamens, and 4 to 8 ovarian cells, but with all the fundamental organization of Mierolieia} Ghcetostoma, native of southern Brazil, is hardly separable from Mierolieia by its floral characters. The stamens have only narrow anthers subulate at the summit. The flowers are ordinarily solitary and terminate branches most frequently ^ clothed with small rigid pointed ericoid leaves. The free ovary is divided into three or four multiovulate cells. Cambessedesia, a Bra,zilian shrub, is also very near Mierolieia. It has the narrow pointed anthers of Ghcetostoma, a 3-celled Fig. 12. Long. sect, of flower. ' Ceniradenia (fig. 13) are near Mierolieia, and are distinguished first by their anthers not prolonged to a beak and by the sepals much shorter than the receptacle. They are tetra- merous flowers, and the connective is prolonged below the anther in a curved flattened layer on the back of which is inserted the top of the fila- ment. The ovary is free in its upper half and its summit is bare or surmounted by four teeth. Natives of the southern and western portions of North America, Cmtrddefiia comprises ceous or subshrubby plants with tetragonal or tetrapterous branches, and. are remarkable for the inequality of the two leaves of the same pair, one remaining very small or scarcely visible, while the ot
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