262 MELASTOMACE^E. 



nerved (rarely subtriplinerved) ; panicle terminal, compound, inariy-flowered, not exceeding 

 the leaves : flowers subsessile or shortly stalked ; anthers 8-10, abruptly tailed : tail without 

 appendage ; stigma capitate; berry 3-locular, not furrowed. — Bonpl. Mel. t. 9. — Mela- 

 stoina, Sw. : a form with distinct sexes. M. thesezans, Bonpl. M. glaucocarpon, Schfecht. I 

 M. glaberrimum, Schleckt. ! : differing by a " white berry." Cremauiuni thesezans, DC. 

 Miconia rubens, microbotrya, abortiva, tetrastoma, Naud., and partly his M. milleflora. — A 

 shrub, 2-10' high : branchlets usually reddish, obtuse-angled ; leaves 3"-4" long, yellowish- 

 green by being dried, serrulate or subentire: petiole, 4"'-12'" long; panicle ovate : flowers 

 minute, crowded, ultimate ones shortly fascicled or clustered ; the pedicels, if existing, 

 jointed below the top, with the bracteoles obsolete ; calyx semiglobose, !"' long, usually with 

 4-5 minute teeth ; petals 4-5, white, equalling the length of the calyx ; anther-pores 4-2- 

 1 ; style at length exceeding the stamens ;. berry blue. — Hab. Jamaica !, Mac/., Pd., Al., 

 on the higher mountains ; [Cuba, Guadeloupe ; Mexico '.]. 



72. C. Sieberi, Gr. Glabrous; branchlets tetragonal ; leaves elliptical-oblong, taper- 

 ing at both ends, exquisitely trinerved, serrulate; panicle terminal, compound, many-flow- 

 ered, shorter than the leaves : flowers subsessile or shortly stalked ; bracteoles oblong or 

 spathulate, blunt, yellowish, exceeding the buds ; petals 5 ; anthers . . .; ovary 3-locular. — 

 Miconia, BO. Mic. vulcauica, Naud. — An arborescent shrub, 20'-25' high ; leaves 4"-6" 

 long : petiole 1"-1V long ; panicle exactly as in the preceding species, from which it is 

 clearly distinct by its growth and by its peculiar bracts. The nodes produce usually dense 

 tufts of thread-shaped scales. — Hab. Dominica !, Imr. ; Trinidad, in mountain woods ; 

 [Guadeloupe, Venezuela]. 



73. C. trinitatis, Crueg. ! Glabrous ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, abruptly acuminate, 

 subtriplinerved or trinerved ; panicle terminal, loose, compound, equalling the leaves : 

 flowers stalked ; anthers 10, tapering towards the tail : tail shortly biauriculated at the knee ; 

 stigma minute, blunt ; berry 3-locular, not furrowed. — Miconia, Naud. — A shrub, 8'-10' 

 high : branchlets slender, tetragonal ; leaves 4" long, black in drying, subentire : peti- 

 ole 3'" long ; panicle pyramidal : primary branches with accessory inferior ones ; ultimate 

 fascicles usually 3-flowered, with the pedicels equalling the minute flower, or the central 

 shorter, jointed at the top : bracteoles minute or obsolete ; calyx -J"' long, ovate ; petals 5, 

 white, equalling the length of the calyx ; anthers 2— 1-pored, exceeding the style ; berry 1'" 

 diam. — Hab. Trinidad!, Lockk., Gr.; [Panama!, Guiana!]. 



74. C. Rivoerise, Gr. Branchlets powdery, glabrescent ; leaves elliptical or ellip- 

 tical-oblong, cordate or rounded at the base, subtriplinerved, entire, glabrous ; panicle ter- 

 minal, compound, many-flowered, equalling the leaves : central flowers sessile ; calyx-tube 

 turbinate ; anthers 8, opening with a single, large, anterior pore : tail without appendage ; 

 stigma minute ; berry 2-locular, 8-ribbed. — Miconia, Naud. — Leaves 4"-6" long : petiole 

 6"'-8'" long ; panicle pyramidal, trichotomous : bracteoles minute ; calyx f" long, petals 

 the same length ; berry 1'" diam., depressed- globose, purplish-black : seeds pyramidal, with 

 a large rhaphe. — Hab. Dominica !, Imr. ; [Martinique, Guadeloupe !, in mountain woods]. 



75. C. tetrandrum, Gr. Branchlets lepidote, tetragonal ; leaves elliptical ox oblong, 

 pointleted, trinerved, entire, glabrous, dotted beneath by minute scales ; panicle terminal, 

 compound, many-flowered, exceeding the leaves : flowers shortly stalked, ebracteolate ; an- 

 thers 4, opening with 2, large, terminal pores : tail without appendage ; stigma minute ; 

 berry 4-locular, not ribbed. — Melastoma, Sw. Tetrazygia, BC. Miconia, Naud. — A low 

 tree, with the branches pale-rusty ; leaves 6"-4" long : petiole 1£''-1" long ; panicle pyra- 

 midal : calyx lepidote, § "' long, semiglobose, constricted below the spreading, reduced limb ; 

 petals the same length, 4; berry globose, 1£"' diam., crowned with the calyx-limb, black. — 

 Hab. Jamaica, on the summit of the Blue Mountain (Sw.}; [Cuba!, Guadeloupe!, in 

 mountain woods]. 



Tribe II. PTXIBANTHEJE.— Fruit berried. Seeds not cochleate. Anthers com- 

 pressed, usually cohering by the cells : connective enlarged: Us appendage, if present, 

 on the>posterior side. 



17- BLAKEA, L. ; Naud. (1. c. 18 p. 142. t. 6./. 1). 

 Calyx 6-lobed or 6-toothed, supported by a 4(-6)-leaved involucre. Anthers 12, cohering 



