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29. T. spondylantha, Gr. Branchlets strigose ; leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, acu- 

 minate, T-5-plinerved, rough above, rather hoary with appressed down beneath ; panicle 

 spiciform, interrupted; petals 5, blunt; stigma minute, berry 3-locular. — Miq. Comment. 

 Phytogr. 2. t. 11 A. — Miconia, DC. Clidemia verticillata, DC. CI. violacea, DC. CI. 

 coccinea, DC. CI. spiciforrnis, Crueg. ! (non DC). Miconia Fockeana, Miq.— A common 

 shrub of Guiana, usually 10'-12' high, variable in the form and the ribs of the leaves, and 

 in the branches being cylindrical or tetragonal : easily recognizable by the lateral pairs of 

 nerve9 being distant from each other, and by the peculiar inflorescence, formed of distant 3- 

 7-flowered clusters ; down of the branches somewhat silky, yellowish, appressed ; leaves 4"- 

 12" long, tapering a little towards the petiole; panicle compound only at the base; calyx- 

 limb repaud, with five minute tubercles on the back ; anthers curved, without appendages; 

 berry blue ; seeds pyramidal. — HaB. Trinidad !, Sch., Lockh., Cr., in savannahs and along 

 riversides ; [Guiana !, equatorial Brazil !, Peru !]. 



7. HETEKOTRICI1UM, DC; Naud. (/. c. 18. p. 85). 



Calyx campanulate : lobes 6-5-4, subulate, spreading. Anthers 12-10-8, oblong, in- 

 flexed above the ovary, opening first by a single terminal pore, and at length by fissures : 

 cells distinct nearly to the top, curved. Ovary adherent, crowned by a neck, encircling the 

 base of the style, bearing a minute, deciduous down. Seeds conical. — Shrubs, with hispid 

 down ; panicle terminal. 



30. H. niveum, DC. Branches and petioles glandular-pilose and stellate-downy ; 

 leaves cordate-ovate, cuspidate, 5-nerved, glabrescent above, whitish beneath with stellate 

 down ; cyme corymbiform, straggling, few-flowered ; calyx 5-6-fid : lobes filiform from a 

 subulate base ; ovary 10-12-locular : stigma blunt. — Bonpl. Mel. t. 44. — Melastoma patens, 

 Sw. II. patens, DC. — A shrub, 6'-10' high ; leaves 3"-5" long, about double the length 

 of the petiole ; calyx-tube at length globose, equalling the lobes ; petals obovate, 6"'-8'" 

 long, rosy-white ; anthers without appendages; berry 8"'-10"' diam., hairy, black. — Hab. 



, Jamaica!, all coll., common on the lower hills of the interior; [Cuba !, Haiti !, Portorico]. 



31. H. hispidum, Gr. Branches and petioles setose and furfuraceous ; leaves ovate, 

 pointed, 3-nerved, rough and substrigose above, setose on the nerves, and often bearded in the 

 axils of veins beneath; panicle spreading ; calyx 4-Jid : lobes ovate and shortly apiculated ; 

 ovary 4-locular : stigma minute. — Melastoma, Sw. M. glandulosum, Sw. Tetrazygia, Macf. 

 H. octandrum, Macf. ! Cremanium glandulosum, DC. Miconia glandulosa, Naud. — A 

 shrub ; leaves 2i''-4" long, petioled, covered on the upper side by short, thick, scattered 

 bristles ; calyx-tube at length globose, a little longer than the lobes ; petals peach-coloured ; 

 anthers tubercled at the base on the anterior side ; neck of the ovary very short and soon 

 glabrescent. 



a. Leaves rough with bristles above. 



j8. lecvius, leaves less rough, without bristles above, and with fewer hairs beneath; calyx 

 smaller and exceeded by the clawed petals. 



Hab. Jamaica !, Sw., Macf., A/., March, Wullschl. (£), on the hills of the interior. 



8. DIPLOCHITA, DC. 



(Jucunda, Cham. Pogonorrhynchus, Crueg. Miconia; sect. Adenosma, Diplochita, et 



Jucunda, Naud.) 



Calyx campanulate : limb produced, spreading: teeth short, blunt ish, or obsolete. An- 

 thers 10-12, beaked-subulate, indexed towards the bottom of the calyx, opening with a sin- 

 gle terminal pore : cells connected. Ovary bearing a minute, deciduous down at the umbili- 

 cated top : upper margin thickened. — Trees or high shrubs, not hispid; leaves large : upper 

 side at length glabrous; panicle terminal, trichotomous, with accessory inferior branch- 

 lets: flowers bracteale, clustered or arranged in umbelliform cymes; petals blunt. 



32. D. Pothergilla, DC. Leaves ovate, acuminate, or pointed, 5-nerved, subenlire, 

 ]>etioled, rusty-downy beneath, as are the branchlets ; panicle constituted of umbelliform 

 cymes; bracts obovate, large ; calyx glabrous at its throat ; petals 5-6, glabrous ; ovary 6- 

 3-locular: stigma peltate.— A ubl. t. 175. Bonpl. Mel. t. 32, 33.— Melastoma Tamonea, Sw. 



