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thers 10, obovate, without appendages, hanging from the deeply indexed filament above the 

 ovary : cells connected, opening with a large, anterior, longitudinal fissure, reaching almost 

 to the base, and common to both of them : connective produced into a very short tail, con- 

 tinuous with the filament. Ovary adherent, depressed aud glabrous at the top. Berry 

 3(-4)-locmar : cells dispermous. Seeds large, triangular: rhaphe enlarged; embryo in- 

 flexed, with the cotyledons plaited. — Shrubs not hispid, with a rusty down ; panicles termi- 

 nal, and accessory ones from the axils-, flowers clustered or fascicled ; petals blunt. 



62. E. punctata, Gr. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, triplinerved, glabrous above, golden- 

 rusty with leprous doivn beneath ; panicle rusty-leprous : flowers clustered or shortly serial ; 

 anthers exceeded by the style ; stigma funuel-shaped, truncate. — Bonpl. Mel. t. 40 : the 

 fructiferous state, in which the berries appear stalked, only one in the cluster being developed. 

 — Miconia, Bon. M. discolor, Macf.l M. fulva, Crueg.! (non DO.).— A shrub, about 6' 

 high, with the compressed branchlets leprous ; leave9 3"-5" long, with a metallic lustre and 

 usually dark-coloured dots beneath, tapering into the petiole, subentire or erenulate : petiole 

 2 ' -4 " long ; panicle pyramidal, exceeded by the leaves : primary branches racemiform, 

 spreading, rather rigid, secondary ones equalling the flower- clusters ; calyx turbinate, 

 rusty-leprous, 1'" long, half the length of the style ; petals whitish, roundish, scarcely 1"' 

 long. — Hab. Jamaica!, Macf, Al., in mountain woods; Trinidad!, Or.; [Haiti; Para, 

 Spruce]. 



63. E. fulva, Gr. (n. sp.). Leaves ovate or oblong, pointleted, with a narrow point, 

 tnnerved or subtriplinerved, glabrous above, rough with scattered stellate down, and rusty- 

 tomentose on the ribs beneath or glabrescent ; panicle rusty-tomentose or powdery : flowers 

 shortly stalked, ternate. — An arborescent shrub, 2o'-30' high, with the branchlets com- 

 pressed, rusty-tomentose ; leaves 6"-10" long, concolor and when dried rusty on both 

 sides, variable in breadth, bluntish at the base, subentire : petiole thick, 4"'-8"' long, and 

 ribs prominent beneath ; panicles pyramidal, slender, terminal and axillary, stalked, exceeded 

 by the leaves : primary branches racemiform ; pedicels 1'" long, equalling the berry ; beny 

 globose, 3-locular, with longitudinal, distant ridges : cells dispermous ; seeds shining, black, 

 convex on the back, flat and keeled on the ventral side, almost as long as the cells. — Hab. 

 Trinidad !, Lockh., Pd., in mountain woods. 



Miconia ferruginea, DC, of Haiti, is probably a third species of this genus, the 

 anthers of which Naudin has described as agreeing with our generic character (" antheris 

 obovatis, poro maximo fere in rimam producto hiantibus "). According to Naudin's de- 

 scription, it only differs in having tetragonal branches, dentate leaves, and longer pedi- 

 cels. Mic. astralasia, DC, is perhaps a synonym. It seems to occur in Jamaica, as 

 from MTadyen's description (" anthers opening by a longitudinal fissure, being widest at 

 the apex ; pedicels \" in length") his Chanopleura stelligera from Portland woods is pro- 

 bably the same plant, though the berry be described by him as many-seeded : it must, how- 

 ever, not be confounded with the similar Mic. rubiainosa, DC, collected by Sir R. Schom- 

 burgk in Haiti, which is a true Miconia. 



13. CH^ENOPLEDRA, Crueg. {non Rich.). 



Calyx semiglobose : limb reduced : teeth rounded or obsolete. Anthers 10, obovate, 

 hanging from the deeply inflexed filament above the ovary : cells connected, opening with a 

 large, anterior, longitudinal fissure, common to both of them : connective produced into a 

 slender tail, continuous with the filament, and somewhat auricled at the base. Ovary adhe- 

 rent, crowned with a glabrous, denticulate neck, 3-locular: ovules in each cell indefinite. 

 Berry small, furrowed. " Seeds angular : embryo inflexed, with the cotyledons plaited" (Or.). 

 — Trees, not hispid : branchlets tetragonal ; leaves large, sometimes whorled ; panicle ter- 

 minal (or sometimes axillary), very compound : flowers very small, clustered or shortly 

 serial. 



64. Ch. ferruginea, Crueg. ! Branches, petioles, and under side of leaves rusty- or 

 hoary. tomentose with a very short appressed down ; leaves elliptical-oblong, pointleted, 3-5- 

 ncrved, regularly crenate; panicle trichotomous (or with whorled branches), pyramidal: 

 flowers small, numberless.— SI. I. 196. /. 1. Bonpl. Mel. t. 23.— Melastoma fulva, Bonpl. 

 Mieonja, DC. M. longifolia, a, Naud. M. Ciuegeriana, Naud. — A tree, 30-40' high ; leaves 

 6"-12" long, rounded at the base, glabrous above: petiole l"-2" long; petals white, obo- 



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