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LASIANDRA MACRANTHA, A NEW BRAZILIAN 
= MELASTOMACEA. 
Bx BERTHOLD SrzEMANN, Pu.D., F.L.S. 
(Puate XXIV.) 
We know no other Melastomacea with larger flowers than the one 
figured in our Plate, which was introduced in 1862 by Mr. J. Linden, 
through M. Libon, from the Province of St. Catharina, Brazil, and 
flowers in the autumn. It is not described in Naudin’s Melastoma- 
cearum Monogr. Descript., nor contained in the London Herbaria. - 
I therefore assume it to be new to science, as it is to our gardens, where 
it recommends itself by its showy purple flowers, the size of which is 
not in the least exaggerated in our Plate. 
Lasiandra (§ Mucroriferee b. Macranthe pauciflore) macrantha, 
Lind. et Seem. sp. nov.; fruticosa, erecta, ramis foliisque pubescen- 
tibus, foliis ovatis v. ovato-oblongis acuminatis denticulatis v. sub- 
integerrimis, utrinque viridibus v. margine sanguineis, floribus termi- 
nalibus solitariis v. binis, segmentis calycinis ovatis acuminatis, petalis 
5 amplis obovatis breviter apiculatis (purpureis), staminibus (10) 
` glabris, connectivo insertione filamenti glandulifero, stylo brevi.— Prov. 
of St. Catharina, Brazil (Libon). 
EXPLANATION oF PLATE XXIV., representing Lasiandra macrantha, natural size, 
from specimens which flowered in Mr. J. Linden’s garden at Brussels. 
THE MISTLETOE (VISCUM ALBUM, L.) IN HERE- 
FORDSHIRE. 
By Henry Burr, M.D. 
(Abridged from the Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, 
with corrections by the Author. 
I. PROPAGATION AND GROWTH. 
The mode in which the Mistletoe is propagated has given rise to 
much discussion. Aristotle (De Gen. Animal.) and other ancient 
. writers imagine that the seeds will not grow unless passed through the 
intestines of a bird. In olden times, long before the birds had cause 
to dread gunpowder, the Mistletoe was the chief source of bird- 
lime, and the Mistletoe Thrush (Turdus viscivorus), in thus making the 
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