1066 CONTRIBUTIONS FEOM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



18. Miconia erythrantha Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 16: 119. 1851. 

 Clidemia monticola Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 17: 341. 1852. 

 Oaxaca. 



Branches furfuraceous ; leaves narrowly ovate, 4 to 6 cm. long, acute or 

 subacuminate, rounded or subcordate at base, 5-nerved, entire or undulate- 

 denticulate, setulose above, hirtellous beneath along the nerves ; panicles 3; 

 to 5 cm. long, the flowers pedicellate ; petals red or pink, 5 mm. long. 



19. Miconia saxicola T. S. Brandeg. Zoe 5: 215. 1905. 

 Sinaloa and Teplc ; type from Cerro Colorado, Sinaloa. 



Young branches densely furfuraceous-puberulent and glandular-hirtellous ;. 

 leaves rounded-ovate, 6 to 14 cm. long, 4.5 to 6.5 cm. wide, obtuse or rounded at 

 apex and abruptly short-acuminate, cordate at base, 7-nerved, duplicate-ser- 

 rulate, densely setulose above, hirtellous beneath ; panicles few-flowei-ed, 3 to 

 4.5 cm. long, the flowers pedicellate; calyx 5 to 6 mm. long, densely fulvous- 

 hirtellous with partly gland-tipped hairs, the teeth 1 to 1.5 mm. long ; petals 6, 

 8 to 11 mm. long. 



20. Miconia minutiflora (Humb. & Bonpl.) DC. Prodr. 3: 189. 1828. 



Mela stoma ininutiflorum Humb. & Bonpl. Monogr. Melast. 1: 50. pi. 22. 1816. 



Vei'acruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Tabasco. West Indies; Central and South 

 America. 



Shrub or tree, 2 to 4 meters high ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, 8 to 12 cm. long,, 

 long-acuminate, rounded to acute at base, 3-nerved, sparsely furfuraceous when 

 young but soon glabrous, usually blackish when dry, entire; panicles 5 to 15 

 cm. long, the flowers numerous, short-pedicellate, sweet-scented ; calyx 1.5 mm. 

 long ; petals white, 2 to 2.5 mm. long ; fruit 2 to 2.5 mm. in diameter. " Resino " 

 (Costa Rica). 



21. Miconia triplinervis Ruiz & Pav. Syst. Veg. Peruv. Chil. 1: 105. 1798. 

 Reported from Tabasco. Jamaica ; Peru. 



Leaves broadly lanceolate, 15 to 25 cm. long, long-acuminate, long-attenuate 

 at base, 3-nerved, entire; spikes 10 to 15 cm. long; calyx 2.5 to 3 mm. long; 

 petals white, 2 mm. long. 



22. Miconia bourgaeana Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phan. 7: 772. 1891. 

 Veracruz ; type from Tuspango, near C6rdoba. 



Shrub, 1 to 2 meters high, the branches furfuraceous ; leaves broadly ovate 

 to lance-oblong, 10 to 20 cm. long, long-acuminate, rounded or subcordate at 

 base, 5 or 7-nerved, obscurely denticulate, sparsely setulose above, hirtellous 

 beneath ; panicles 6 to 15 cm. long ; calyx 2 mm. long, stellate-f urf uraceous ; 

 petals 2 mm. long. 



23. Miconia impetiolaris (Swartz) D. Don, Mem. Wern. Soc. 4: 316. 1823. 

 Melastoma impetiolare Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 70. 1788. 



Veracruz. West Indies ; Central and South America. 



Large shrub or tree, 5 to 8 meters high, the branches tomentose ; leaves 

 oblong to broadly obovate, 20 to 50 cm. long, short-acuminate, auriculate at 

 base, 3-nerved or quintuplinerved, undulate-denticulate, glabrate above, stel- 

 late-hirtellous beneath ; panicles 15 to 25 cm. long, the flowers sessile ; calyx 

 2.5 to 3 mm. long ; petals white or pink, 2 mm. long ; fruit blue or black. 

 4 mm. in diameter. " Hoja de pasmo " (Costa Rica) ; " camasey," " caniasey 

 de costilla " (Porto Rico). 



