Microlicia
(from mikros, small, and olikos, in general; in allusion to the generally dwarf habit of the plants). ORD. Melastomaceae. A genus consisting of a large number of species (of which seventy-seven are regarded, by Bentham and Hooker, as distinct) of small erect stove shrubs. Flowers solitary, axillary, or at the tips of the branchlets, sessile or shortly pedunculate; calyx lobes five; petals obovate. Leaves small, often imbricated, entire, serrated, or crenulated, often gland-dotted. The species have little or no horticultural value.