Loreya
(named after M. Lorey, a French botanist, author of a Flora of Burgundy, published in 1825). ORD. Melastomaceae. A small genus (about eight species have been described) of ornamental, glabrous or tomentose, stove trees, natives of Northern Brazil and Guiana. Flowers in cymose panicles. Fruit inferior, baccate. Leaves large, stalked, ovate, entire. Branches four-sided. Probably the species here described is the only one yet introduced. For culture, see Melastoma.
L. arborescens (tree-like). fl. white, lateral; racemules seven to eight-flowered, cymose. July. fr., berry yellow, edible, very like a medlar. l. petiolate, oval-orbicular, obtuse, or mucronate. h. 30ft. Guiana, 1822.