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Ann. des Sc. nat. Bot. Series 3 Tome 12. [1849]

p. 196 Melastomacearum Monographicæ Descriptionis

Auctore Carolo Naudin.

p. 199 Character of whole Family "rasissime abortu unisexuales" – "Stamina ….. petalorum numéro sæpissime dupla et alternatim inter se inæqualia, iis rarius numéro æqualia" "connectivo infra loculos sæpissime producto et varie appendiculato"

"Stylus [simplex] sæpius filiformis, stigmate punctiformis

p. 200 Subdivision of Order. I. Melastomeæ

"Stamina sæpissime inæqualia, id est quæ cum petalis alternant (ie sepal-faces majora, cætera (ie petal faces)  minora interdumque sterilia, imo sed rarius omnino obsoleta et nulla."

Many cases of the latter statement given. The production of connective not always present

p. 206 Rhyncanthera – 10 stamens – 5 petal faces abortive – Stylus declinatus

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p. 229 Microliciæ "Stylus magis " but this only generia character – 10 stamens inæqualia.

p. 264 Trembleya "stylus parum incurvus"

- 271 Centradenia "stylus sigmoideus" "Centradenia rosea"

275 Heterocentron & monochætum comes next to each other & are melastomeæ

276 Onoctonia "stylo recto"

278 Fritzchia "stylus declinatus"

279 Noterophila "Stylus rectus vel parum incurvus."

Vol. 13 in most true melastomeæ – stylus filiformis, sometimes sigmoideus; in Comolia "sæpe sigmoideus". Anther generally extremely unequal. –

 

Vol. 14 p. 141 Spennera "stylus plus minus sigmoideus aut rectus"

- p. 154 Heterocentron (no roseum) only "stylus filiformes"!

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Vol. 14 p. 157 Monochætum "stylus filiformis magis sigmoideus" – "M. ensiferum."

p. 165 M. Bonplandii – sepal-faces fertile; petal-faces "antheræ abortivæ steriles"

(N.B. In melastomeæ – multitude of genera with all 8 pr 10, stamen fertile)

Vol. 16. p 69 Dissochæta – Stamina 4, which are sepal-faces; or 8, with petal-faces smaller than the other, or even obsolete & sterile. – Stylus magis, minusæ sigmoideus.

No use in Hunting other volumes.

Rlexia of N. America is a distinct tribe from true Melastomeæ.