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34. Miconia prasina (Swartz) DC. Prodr. 3: 188. 1828. 

 Melastoma prasinum Swartz, Prodr, Veg. Ind. Occ. 69. 1788. 

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



Shrub, 3 to 5 meters high, the branches puberulent ; leaves oblong or lance- 

 oblong, 7 to 20 cm. long, acute or acuminate, acute or obtuse at base, entire 

 or nearly so, glabrate; panicles 5 to 15 cm. long, the flowers sessile; calyx 

 2.5 to 3.5 mm. long; petals white or pale pink, 2 to 3 mm. long; fruit black- 

 purple, 4 mm. thick. " Camasey " (Porto Rico). 



The plant is said to yield a black dye. 



35. Miconia globulifera Naud. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 16: 139. 1851. 

 Melastoma globuliflorum Schlecht. & Cham. Linnaea 5: 564. 1830. Not M. 



globuliflora L. Rich. 1792. 



Veracruz, Oaxaca, and Chiapas; type from Jalapa, Veracruz. 



Shrub, 1 to 2 meters high, the branches densely furfuraceous-tomentose ; 

 leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, 10 to 15 cm. long, long-acuminate, rounded or 

 obtuse at base and often oblique, setulose above, densely stellate-tomentose 

 beneath; panicles 5 to 8 cm. long, the flowers sessile, clustered at the ends of 

 the branches ; calyx 3 mm. long ; petals yellow, 3 mm. long ; fruit 5 mm. thick. 



The writer has seen no material of M. Uebmannii Cogn.,^ which, judging from 

 the description, must be very closely related if not identical. It was described 

 from Oaxaca. 



36. Miconia nervosa (Smith) Triana, Trans. Linn. Soc. 28: 111. 1871. 

 Melastoma nervosum Smith in Rees, Cycl. 23. 1822. 



Reported from southern Mexico. Central and South America. 



Shrub, 2 meters high, the branches appressed-setulose ; leaves ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, 10 to 30 cm. long, long-acummate, setulose above; panicles spici- 

 form, 5 to 15 cm. long, the flowers sessile, densely congested ; calyx 4 mm. 

 long ; petals red, 3.5 to 4 mm. long. 



37. Miconia chiysoneura Triana, Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. 28: 111. 1871. 

 Veracruz and Oaxaca ; type from Jalapa, Veracruz. 



Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 7 to 20 cm. long, acute or acuminate, acute 

 to rounded at base, appressed-setulose or hirtellous with yellowish hairs, entire 

 or nearly so, septemplinerved ; panicles 5 to 10 cm. long, the flowers sessile, 

 clustered at the ends of the branches ; calyx 3 mm. long ; petals 3 mm. long. 



38. Miconia ibaguensis (Humb. & Bonpl.) Triana, Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. 

 28: 110. 1871. 



Melastoma ibaguense Humb. & Bonpl. Monogr. Melast. 1: 105. pi. ^5. 1816. 



Melastoma Uneattim Schlecht. Linnaea 13: 423. 1839. 



Veracruz and Oaxaca. Cuba; Central and South America. 



Shrub, 1 to 5 meters high ; leaves oblong or lance-oblong, 8 to 15 cm. long, 

 acute or acuminate, rounded or obtuse at base, quintuplinerved, minutely ser- 

 rulate or entire, setulose or glabrate above; panicles 5 to 10 cm. long, the 

 flowers sessile; calyx 3 mm. long; petals white or yellow, 2.5 to 3 mm. long, 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES 



Miconia magnifica Triana, Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. 28: 131. 1871. Described 

 from cultivated plants which were believed to be of Mexican origin. 



iln DC. Monogr. Phan. 7: 821. 1891. 

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