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29. Miconia calvescens DC. Prodr. 3: 185. 1828. 

 Chiapas. Central and South America ; type from Brazil. 



Tree, 4 to 6 meters high, the young branches minutely stellate-canescent ; 

 leaves oblong to broadly ovate or obovate, 15 to 50 cm. long, 7 to 40 cm. 

 wide, acute or short-acuminate, 5-nerved, entire, glabrate; panicles 20 to .50 

 cm. long, the flow^ers sessile; calyx 3 mm. long; petals white, 2 to 2.5 mm. 

 long ; fruit 4 mm. thick. . 



30. Miconia hyperprasina Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 16: 186. 1851. 

 Type from Teapa, Tabasco. Central America. 



Shrub or small tree, the branches sparsely furfuraceous or glabrate ; leave.s 

 oblong-lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, 15 to 30 cm. long, acuminate, acute at 

 base, thin, glabrate, repand-crenate or subentire ; panicles 7 to 10 cm. long ; 

 calyx 3 mm. long; petals white, 2 mm. long. 



31. Miconia laevigata (L.) DC. Prodr. 3: 188. 1828. 

 Melastoma laevigatum L. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 390. 1762. 

 Melastoma sylvaticum Schlecht. Linnaea 13: 422. 1839. 

 Miconia sylvatica Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 16: 243. 1851. 



Guerrero, Oaxaca, Morelos, and Veracruz. West Indies; Central and South 

 America. 



Shrub, 1 to 4.5 meters high, the young branches stellate-furfuraceous ; leaves 

 oblong or oblong-ovate, 8 to 25 cm. long, acuminate, obtuse or rounded at base, 

 entire or nearly so, glabrate; panicles 5 to 15 cm. long; calyx 3 to 3.5 mm. 

 long, furfuraceous ; petals white or pink, 3 to 4 mm. long ; fruit blue or 

 blackish, 3 mm. thick. " Totopozole," " tezhuate " (Oaxaca, Reko) ; " ca- 

 masey " (Porto Rico); " teshuate," " ojo de gato" (Veracruz); " cirin " (El 

 Salvador). 



32. Miconia langlassei Standi., sp. nov. 



Type from the Sierra Madre of Michoacftn or Guerrero ( Langlafs^ 845 ; U. S. 

 Nat. Herb. no. 386227). 



Tree, 5 to 6 meters higli. the young branches glabrate; leaves elliptic-ob- 

 long or ovate-oblong, 17 to 23 cm. long, 8 to 10.5 cm. wide, apiculate, ab- 

 ruptly decurrent nearly to the base of the petiole, thin, glabrate, triplinerved, 

 the lateral nerves remote from the margin ; panicles about 20 cm. long, broadly 

 pyramidal, the branches arcuate-ascending, the flowers 5-parted, mostly sessile ; 

 calyx 2 mm. long, minutely puberulent, repand-dentate ; petals white, 2 mm. 

 long; style 6 to 7 mm. long. 



To this species may be referred, for the present, Goldman 731. from Jaltipam, 

 Veracruz. The specimen is in every way like the type of M. langlassei ex- 

 cept that the leaf blades are rounded and auriculate at base. Similar varia- 

 tion is exhibited by M. pteropoda Benth., a closely related species. 



33. Miconia schlechtendalii Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phan. 7: 804. 1891. 

 Veracruz: type materinl from Hacienda de la Laguna and Misantla. 

 Young branches furfuraceous-puberulent ; leaves narrowly lanceolate, 6 t<» 



14 cm. long, acute or acuminate, acute at base, obscurely denticulate, glabrate ; 

 panicles 3 to 7 cm. long, narrow, dense, the flowers sessile ; calyx 2.5 mm. 

 long; petals white, 2 mm. long; fruit black. 



This was listed by Hemsley as M. maxiimUana DC. It is probably not 

 distinct from M. prasina. 



