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extensive hordes of savages to dispute the possession of the soil, nor 
the still more dangerous opposition of half-civilized barbarians, such 
as for ages yet may obstruct the progress of civilization in the great 
interior of Africa. 
Our continent, it may be foretold prophetically, will ere long be re- 
garded of so high a territorial value that no tract, however much dis- 
regarded now, will remain unoccupied. Our continent, surrounded 
moreover by the natural boundaries of three oceans, free and uncon- 
nected, must advance, by extraneous influences undisturbed, by ancient 
usages unretarded, to that greatness to which British sovereintv will 
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for ever give a stability. 
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ENUMERACION DE LAS MELASTOMACEAS DE CHON- 
TALES EN NICARAGUA RECOGIDAS POlt EL SK. DR. 
B. SEEMANN. 
POR JOSE TRIANA. 
-Durante el ultimo viage que el Sr. Seemann ha hecho a Nicaragua, 
reco gio algunas especies de Melastomaceas, dignas de in teres por su 
flovedad, su sinonimia 6 su distribucion geografica. Vamos a enu- 
nierarhis. 
1. Caloplnjm setosa, Triana (n. sp.) ; fruticosa, macrophylla, subiso- 
P^VUa; ramis teretibus petiolis nervisque subtus setis longis dcnsis re- 
nexis horridis ; foliis petiolatis late ovatis vel ovato-oblongis abrupte 
ac uimnatis subcordatis basi in vesicam bilobam limbo ipsi coutiguain 
au t petiolo insidentem inflatis minute crenulato-densatis subciliatis 7- 
ner vis, supra et subtus inter nervos sparse longe pilosis v. glabratis ; 
Paniculis corymbosis axillaribus v. subterminalibus multifloris ; pedun- 
cu ;° & ra cillimo ; floribus (pro planta) minutis ; calyee campanulato qua- 
< ri dentato, iobis setis paucis elongatis auctis ; antheris linearibus bre- 
viter calcaratis. 
Es ta planta notable se distingue facilmente por sus ranios erizados 
(,e P elos largos rcfltjados hacia atras. 
2 - Conostegia bracteata, Triana (n. sp.) ; arborea, subisophylla, pube 
^arufescente hirtella; ramis junioribus sulcato-tetragonis; foliis bre- 
wer petiolatis ovato-dlipticis attenuato-acuminatis minute crenulatis 
Wnaque subaericeo-piloaia 5-nervis ; paniculis tcrminalibus v. a rame 
