ADELOBOTRYS (from adelos, obscure, and botrys, a cluster). ORD. Melastomaceae. Stove climbing shrubs with terete branches. Flowers white, crowded in cymose heads at the tops of the branches. Leaves clothed with rufous hairs on both surfaces when young, but in the adult state glabrous, except the nerves, petiolate, ovate, cordate, acuminated, ciliately serrated, five-nerved. For general culture, see Pleroma. ADELOBOTRYS Lindeni (Linden's).* fl. white, changing to purple. Brazil, 1866. ADELOBOTRYS scandens (climbing).* This, the original species, possibly not now in cultivation, is a native of French Guiana.