1064 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



6. Miconia tepicana Standi., sp. nov. 



Type collected between Dolores and Santa Gertrudis, Tepic {Rose 2058,' 

 U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 300958). 



Branches subterete, densely stellate-tomentulose : petioles 3 to 5 cm. long ; 

 leaf blades cordate-ovate, 13 to 15.5 cm. long-, 8 to 8.5 cm. wide, acute, deeply 

 cordate at base, quintuplinerved, entire, glabrous above or nearly so, densely 

 and finely stellate-tomentulose beneath ; panicles many flowered, about 14 cm. 

 long, the flowers mostly short-pedicellate ; calyx 2.5 mm. long, tomentulose, the 

 lobes minute, obtuse ; petals 1.5 mm. long ; anthers 1 to 1.5 mm. long. 



7. Miconia hemenostigma Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 16: 230. 1851. 

 Oaxaca. Guatemala. 



Branches f urfuraceous-puberulent ; leaves oblong to ovate, 12 to 20 cm. long, 

 acuminate, rounded at base, .5-norved. subentire, green and glabrous above ; 

 panicles 8 to 12 cm. long; calyx 2 mm. long, puberulent or glabrate; petals 

 white, 1.5 mm. long. 



8. Miconia rubens (Swartz) Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 16: 169. 1851. 

 Melastoma rubens Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 71. 1788. 

 Chiapas. Costa Rica and Venezuela ; type from Jamaica. 



Glabrous shrub, 3 to 4 meters high ; leaves oblong or elliptic-oblong, 6 to 16 

 cm. Ions, acuminate or abruptly acuminate, acute or obtuse at base, subentire; 

 panicles 4 to 7 cm. long, the flowers short-pedicellate ; calyx 2 ram. long ; petals 

 white, about 1 mm. long. 



9. Miconia oligotricha (DC.) Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 16: 245. 1851. 

 Cremanium oligotrichnm DC. Prodr. 3: 193. 1828. 



Melastoma glatwocarpum Schlecht. Linnaea 13: 421. 1839. 



Veracruz and perhaps elsewhere. 



Leaves broadly oblong, 6 to 10 cm. long, acuminate, rounded at base, minutely 

 denticulate; panicles pyramidal, 5 to 8 cm. long, the flowers pedicellate; 

 calyx 2 mm. long ; petals 1 mm. long ; fruit blue, 4 mm. in diameter. 



10. Miconia glaberrima (Schlecht.) Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. HI. 16: 243. 1851. 

 Melastoma f/laberrinium Schlecht. Linnaea 13: 421. 1839. 



Miconia brachystyla Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 16: 230. 1851. 



Miconia myriocarpa Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 16: 231. 1851. 



Veracruz, Oaxaca, and Chiapas ; type from Barranca de Tioselo. Central 

 America. 



Slender glabrous shrub ; leaves lance-oblong or elliptic-oblong, 8 to 12 cm. 

 long, acuminate, obtuse or acute at base, entire or nearly so ; panicles pyrami- 

 dal, 5 to 7 cm. long, the flowers pedicellate ; petals white or pink, 1 mm. long ; 

 fruit wliite. 



11. Miconia pinetorum Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. IIL 16: 229. 1851. 

 Morelos, Oaxaca, and Chiapas; type from mountains of Oaxaca. 



Shrub or small tree, 2 to 4.5 meters high ; leaves elliptic or oblong, 7 to 14 

 cm. long, acuminate, obtuse or acute at base, obscurely serrulate; panicles 4 

 to 10 cm. long, the flowers pedicellate; petals white, 1 to 1.5 mm. long. 



12. Miconia mexicana (Humb. & Bonpl.) Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 16: 244. 

 1851. 



Melastoma mexicanum Humb. & Bonpl. Monogr. Melast. 1: 128. pi. 55. 1816. 

 Miconia tococoides Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 16: 127. 1851. 

 Miconia conostegioides Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 16: 127. 1851. 

 Veracruz and Oaxaca. Guatemala. 



