FLORA OF BRAZIL. 171 
identical with Peruvian ones in the Hookerian Herba- 
rium, 
31. Jussiæa scabra. Willd.—J. hirta. Lam. Dict. 3, p. 331.— 
B. J. Maregravii. D.C. Prodr. 3, p. 58. 
= Haz. Common iu moist marshy places, about Rio. FI. July. 
_ 32. Cuphea Balsamona. Cham. et Schlect. in Linnea, 2, p. 263. 
> —Balsamona Pinto. Vandelli Flora Lusit. et Bras. Spec. 
p. 30. € 4. 
Chamisso and Schlectendal describe their plant as au 
annual, while mine is certainly shrubby ; and so is a Mexican 
one, otherwise agreeing with mine, in Sir William Hooker's 
Herbarium, sent by those Botanists from that of Berlin. 
33. Pleroma Fontanesianum.—Lasiandra Fontanesiana. D.C. 
Prodr. 3, p. 130.—Melastoma granulosa. Bot. Mag. t. 214. 
Flor de Quaresma; nom. vernaculum. 
. Han. Very common in woods in the provinee of Rio de Ja- 
= neiro. Fi. from March till July. 
According to Bentham (Hook. Journ. of Bot. 2, p. 288.) 
. Pleroma, of Don, does not differ from Lasiandra of D.C.; 
. and as Don's name is the older of the two, I have retained it. 
_ 34. Clidemia crenata, D.C. Prodr. 3, p. 158. 
. Has. Common by the Aqueduct, on the Corcovado. Fi. 
: Julv, Aug 
. 35. Clidemia marginata, D.C. Prodr. 3, p. 156. 
. Haz, In woods, on the Corcovado. FI. Sept. 
. 36. Clidemia amygdaloides. D. C. Prodr. 3, p. 156. 
: Has. In woods by the Aqueduct, on the Corcovado. FL 
E ove | 
4 37. Miconia collina. D.C. Prodr. 3, p. 185. 
E Han. In woods, on the Corcovado. Fi. Oct. Nov. 
? 38. Clidemia biseptena. D.C. Prodr. 3, p. 164. 
1 Han. In woods, on the Corcovado. i. Sept. 
_ Among my own specimens under this number, I find one 
ba C. Nianga (D.C. Prodr. 3, p. 163), which makes it pos- 
de that the two species were mixed up in the general dis- 
- tribution, 
9. Rhynchanthera dichotoma. D.C. Prodr. 3, p. 131, 
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