Conostegia
(from konos, a cone, and stege, a covering; in reference to the conical calyptriform calyx falling off in one piece). ORD. Melastomaceae. Stove evergreen trees or small shrubs. Flowers in terminal panicles. Leaves petiolate, entire or denticulate, three to five-nerved. For culture, see Melastoma.
C. Balbisiana (Balbis's). This species is a twining shrub, of which the leaves are oval and blunt, with a point.
C. procera (tall). fl. rosy or white, large, on simply-divided panicles. June. l. elliptical-oblong, sub-triplinerved. h. 25ft. Jamaica, 1825.