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Shrub, 2 to 3 meters high ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, 8 to 18 era. long, rounded 

 to acute at base, triplinerved, entire or nearly so, glabrous above, puberulent 

 beneath along the nerves ; panicles 10 to 15 cm. long, the flowers pedicellate ; 

 calyx 3 to 4 ram. long ; petals white or pink, 5 mm. long. " Teshuate " 

 (Veracruz). 



13. Miconia laurifonnis Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 16: 189. 1851. 

 Type collected between San Bartolo and Pueblo Nuevo, Chiapas. 



Leaves ovate-oblong, 6 to 19 cm. long, rounded or subacute at base, tripli- 

 nerved, entire, puberulent beneath along the nerves ; panicles 5 to 7 cm. long, 

 the flowers short-pedicellate ; calyx 3 mm. long ; petals pink, 5 to 6 mm. long. 



14. Miconia leucocephala (DC.) Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 16: 244. 1851. 

 Chitonia macrophylla D. Don, Mem. Wern. Soc. 4: 319. 1823. 

 Diplochita leucocephala DC. Prodr. 3: 177. 1828. 



Miconia macrophylla Triana, Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. 28: 103. 1871. Not 

 M. macrophylla Steud. 1844. 



Oaxaca and Chiapas. West Indies and South America. 



Shrub or tree, 3 to 12 meters high, the branches densely tomentose ; leaves 

 broadly elliptic to oblong-ovate, 20 to 30 cm. long, rounded or obtuse and short- 

 acuminate at apex, emarginate at base, 5 or 7-nerved, glabrate above, densely 

 stellate-tomentose beneath ; panicles 10 to 30 cm. long ; calyx 7 mm. long, 

 tomentose ; petals white or pink, 6 to 8 mm. long ; fruit about 6 mm. in 

 diameter. 



15. Miconia dodecandra (Desr.) Cogn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 14*: 243. 1886. 

 Melastoma dodecandrum Desr. in Lam. Encycl. 4: 46. 1797. 



Veracruz, Oaxaca, and Chiapas. West Indies ; Central and South America. 



Shrub or small tree, sometimes 5 meters high, the branches densely fur- 

 furaceous-puberulent ; leaves ovate to lance-oblong, 10 to 18 cm. long, 

 acuminate, rounded at base, usually 5-nerved, glabrate above, densely stellate- 

 tomentulose beneath ; panicles 10 to 20 cm. long, the flowers pedicellate ; calyx 

 4 to 6 mm. long, canescent-tomentulose : petals white or pink, 5 to 8 mm. long ; 

 fruit about 5 mm. in diameter. 



Reported by Hemsley as M. f other gilla (Humb. & Bonpl.) Naud. 



16. Miconia anisotricha (Schlecht.) Triana, Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. 28: 102. 

 187L 



Melastoma anisotrichon Schlecht. Liunaea 13: 427. 1S39. 



Cremanium herghesianum Schauer, Linnaea 20: 735. 1847. 



CUdem,ia urticaefolia Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 17: 354 1852. 



Veracruz and Oaxaca ; type collected between San Miguel del Soldadu and 

 La Joya ; a closely related but probably distinct plant occurs in MichoacS-n or 

 Guerrei'o. 



Branches densely furfuraceous-puberulent and short-hirtellous ; leaves ovate- 

 oblong, 6 to 12 cm. long, acuminate, subcordate at base, hirtellous beneath, 

 setulose above, 5 or 7-nerved ; panicles 4 to 7 cm. long, the flowers pedicellate ; 

 calyx hirtellous, 2.5 mm. long, the teeth 1 mm. long; petals 4 mm. long: fruit 

 black, 4 mm. thick. 



17. Miconia guatemalensis Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phan. 7: 758. 1891. 

 Chiapas. Guatemala ; type from Tactic. 



Branches densely stellate-puberulent ; leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, 6 to 

 16 cm. long, acuminate, rounded or subcordate at base, 5-nerved, entire or 

 minutely serrulate, hirtellous above, stellate-puberulent beneath; panicles 4 

 to 8 cm. long, the flowers sessile or nearly so ; calyx 2 mm. long, puberulent. 



