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Leaves 1.5 to 3 cm. wide, the transverse nerves very 



prominent 33. M. schlechtendalii. 



Leaves mostly 4 to 6 cm. wide, the transverse nerves 



slender and not very prominent 34. M. prasina. 



Leaves pilosulous or hirsutulous beneath. 



Leaves stellate-tomentose beneath 35, M. globulifera. 



Leaves pilose or hirsute beneath with simple hairs. 

 Leaves very densely hirsute beneath, attenuate at base. 



36. M. nervosa. 

 Leaves thinly setulose beneath, rounded to subacute at base. 



Young branches appressed-setulose 37, M. chrysoneura. 



Young branches spreading-setulose 38. M, ibaguensis. 



1, Miconia lacera (Humb. & Bonpl.) Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. IIL 16: 152, 1851. 

 Melastoma lacerum Humb. & Bonpl. Monogr, Melast. 1: 9. pi. 5. 1816. 

 Reported from southern Mexico. Central America to Brazil ; Martinique. 

 Shrub, 1 to 2 meters high, the branches covered with very long spreading 



brown hairs; leaves ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 6 to 15 cm. long, acuminate, 

 rounded or obtuse at base, 3 or 5-nerved, denticulate, setulose; panicles nar- 

 row; calyx tube 2 mm. long; petals pink, 3 to 4 mm. long. " Sirin " (Guate- 

 mala, Honduras). 



2, Miconia clliata (L. Rich.) DC. Prodr, 3: 179, 1828. 



Melastoma cUiatnm L. Rich. Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris 1792: 109. 1792. 



Melastoma deciissatum Vahl, Eclog. Amer, 1: 42, 1796. 



Miconia decussata D. Don; Triana, Trans. Linn, Soc, Bot, 28: 121. 1871. 



Reported from southern Mexico, Panama to Brazil ; West Indies. 



Shrub, 3 to 5 meters high ; leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 8 to 20 cm. 

 long, short-acuminate, 3-nerved, subserrulate, long-ciliate, glabrous; calyx 2 

 mm. long ; petals pink, 2 to 2,5 mm, long, 



3, Miconia glabrata Cogn, in DC. Monogr. Phan. 7: 875. 1891. 

 Oaxaca and Chiapas; type from Pinotepa, Oaxaca. 



Slender shrub ; leaves ovate-lanceolate or lance-oblong, 3 to 9 cm, long, long- 

 acuminate, quintuplinerved, entire, glabrous; panicles many-flowered, 3 to 

 8 cm, long ; calyx 1,5 mm, long ; petals 2 mm, long. 



4, Miconia madrensis Standi., sp. nov, 



Tepic and Jalisco; type collected near Santa Teresa, in the Sierra Madre, 

 Tepic (Rose 2226; U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 301140). 



Young branches densely furfuraceous-puberulent with rufous pubescence, 

 in age glabrate ; petioles 0.8 to 1.7 cm. long ; leaf blades ovate to ovate-oblong, 

 4,5 to 7,5 cm, long, 1.5 to 4 cm. wide, acute or short-acuminate, rounded at base, 

 quintuplinerved, entire or remotely and minutely serrulate, glabrate above, 

 minutely and sparsely stellate-puberulent beneath or finally glabrate; panicles 

 6 to 9 cm. long, many-flowered, the flowers pedicellate, 5-parted ; calyx 2 mm. 

 long, sparsely puberulent, the lobes minute, rounded ; petals 2 mm. long ; an- 

 thers oblong, curved; fruit 4 mm. thick, 



Pringle 2369, collected near Guadalajara, belongs to this species. 



5, Miconia phaeotricha Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 16: 193. 1851. 

 Type from mountains of Oaxaca, 



Leaves ovate-cordate, 12 to 18 era, long, 5 or 7-nerved, setose above, hirtellous 

 beneath; panicles 10 to 15 cm. long, the flowers pedicellate; calyx 2.5 to 3 min. 

 long, hispid ; petals pink, 1 5 mm. long. 



