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form of the same, the seeds being simply clavate-conical in the common silver-coloured 

 type. Harrera trinervis, Macf. ! — A shrub, 5-10' high : the branchlets covered with 

 scales, which at length becoming loosened and torn, give the appearance of a powdery down, 

 but less regularly stellate than in o ; the leprous under side of the leaves either white or 

 pale glaucous, sometimes passing into stellate down ; flowers shortly stalked ; petals white, 

 usually 5 (" 4-6," Mich.) ; berry " purple." 



Hab. Jamaica ! (a and £) : all coll., in mountain-woods and valleys ; Bahamas !, Swains. ; 

 [Cuba !, Haiti !, Mexico !]. 



45. T. elseagroides, DC. Leaves elliptical-lanceolate or lanceolate, sharply taper- 

 pointed, trinerved, whitened beneath by tomentose down ; panicle corymbiform, loose ; 

 calyx-tube tw ice as long as the limb : teeth 4, roundish or obsolete, usually exceeded by an 

 exterior subulate appendage ; anthers 8 : pore minute, turned outwards ; ovary 4-locular. — 

 Vahl, Ic. Amer. f. 28. Bonpl. Mel. t. 13. — Melastoma, Sw.! Tetraz. laxiflora, Naud.!: 

 a slender form, with richer, sometimes racemiform panicle {Linden, Cub. 2094, 2026). — 

 A shrub ; the down less appressed, and the leaves narrower than in the preceding species ; 

 petals 4, rosy or white, 8—4'" long, obovate-oblong or oblong. — Hab. Caribbean Islands ; 

 [Cuba ! to Martinique]. 



46. T. discolor, DC. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, sharply pointleted, subtripli- 

 nerved, white beneath, with appressed, scaly down ; panicle corymbiform, contracted, many- 

 flowered ; calyx-tube as long as the limb : teeth 4, roundish (sometimes pointed) ; anthers 

 8 : pore turned inwards on the bluntish or transversely truncate, inflexed top ; ovary 4-lo- 

 cular. — Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 125. Vahl, Eel. t.7. Bonpl. Mel. t. 34. — Melastoma, L. 

 M. acuminata, Vahl. M. elseagnoides, Sieb. Trin. 61 ! — A low shrub ; leaves entire, the 

 same size as in T. angustiflora, but flowers densely crowded, fastigiate and much smaller, the 

 calyx being 2"' long and the petals even less : these oval, whitish ; berry 2'" diam., blue ; 

 seeds obovate, somewhat angular. 



a Branchlets leprous ; leaves quite entire. 



&. villosa. Branchlets, panicle, and petioles villous, with hairs forked at the top ; leaves 

 serrulate (or sometimes entire). 



Hab. S. Kitts !, Montserrat, Dominica !, Tmr. (0 ) ; S. Vincent !, Guild., in mountain 

 woods ; [French islands !, Sieb. Mart. 117]. 



Sect. 2. Lackraria. — Calyx-limb irregularly torn : pieces 2-3 ; pedicels pointed, bearing 

 two minute bracts at the top. — Shrubs, wholly glabrous; branchlets cylindrical. 



47. T. cornifolia, Gr. Leaves ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, taper-pointed, subtripli- 

 nerved, entire, glabrous ; panicle spreading ; calyx-tube furrowed, a little longer than the 

 torn limb ; anthers 10 .- pore turned inwards on the transversely truncate, curved top ; 

 ovary 3-locular. — Bonpl. Mel. t. 41.— Conostegia, Ser. Miconia, Naud. — A shrub ; leaves 

 l"-6" long ; petals white, obovate, about 3"' long, equalling the length of the calyx, but ex- 

 ceeded by the stamens ; anthers tumid at the base. — Hab. S. Vincent !, Guild. ; [Marti- 

 nique!]. 



48. T. semicrenata, Gr. Leaves ovate or lanceolate, produced into a narrow, taper- 

 ing point, sub-3-nerved, sinuate-dentate or creDate-repand towards the middle part, glabrous ; 

 panicle spreading; calyx-tube furrowed, twice the length of the torn limb; anthers 10: 

 pore turned inwards on the transversely truncate, curved top ; ovary 3-locular. — Bonpl. 

 Mel. t. 31.— Melastoma acuminatum, Sieb. ! Mart.116 (non Vahl). M. adpressum, Prt. t, 

 ibid. Conostegia semicrenata, Ser. Miconia, Naud. — A shrub; leaves variable, 6"-l" 

 long, 3"-£" broad ; petals white, of the same size and proportions as in the preceding, 

 nearly allied species ; anthers biauriculated at the base on the anterior side. — Hab. Domi- 

 nica!, Imr., S. Vincent !, Guild.; [Cuba !, French islands !]. 



11. MICONIA, B.P. reform. 



(Miconia, sect. Eumiconia, Naud. exclus. sp. Glossocentrum, Crueg. Pachyantbus, Rich. 

 Sarcomeris, Naud. Ilartigia, Miq.) 



Calyx turbinate, semiglobose or shortly campanulate : limb reduced ; teeth short, blunt- 

 ish or obsolete. Anthers 10-8 (-12), oblong-linear and usually tapering towards the top 



