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On river banks, middle and eastern Georgia. Spring. 



The species grows abundantly on steep gneiss slopes along the 

 Savannah River about seven miles above Augusta. Type in the 

 herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. J. K. Small. 



A new Mouriria from Porto Rico. — Mouririci Aubl. is a 

 genus of Melastomaceae including about forty species, natives of 

 continental tropical America and the West Indies. Of these M. 

 Domingensis (Tussac) Spach, a tree with ovate pinnately-veined 

 leaves is apparently frequent on Porto Rico, and five species are 

 recorded from Cuba. The plant here noticed was first collected 

 by P. Sintenis near Hatillo, and specimens with foliage only were 

 distributed from the Berlin Herbarium annotated by Professor 

 Urban as related to M. spatlmlata Griseb., a Cuban species. 



M. spatlmlata is, however, a species with distinctly pinnately- 

 veined leaves, and, as shown by Linden's no. 2147, is clearly 

 different from the Porto Rico plant under consideration, which 

 apparently finds its nearest known relative in M. lanccolata Griseb., 

 also Cuban. The new species may be characterized as follows : 



Mouriria Helleri. — A spreading shrub, 2-3 m. high, the 

 slender branches light gray. Leaves oblong to oval, thick, bluish 

 green, strongly 1 -nerved, the few lateral veins very indistinct, 

 obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base, 2-3 cm. long, 1-1.7 

 cm. wide, the margins somewhat revolute; petioles about I mm. 

 long : flowers solitary in the upper axils, few ; pedicels 5-6 mm. 

 long, 2-bracteolate at about the middle, the bractlets 1 mm. long, 

 ovate, acute : berries orange-color, 1 cm. in diameter or more, 

 fleshy, the persistent cup-shaped calyx with short broad acute lobes. 



In sandy soil near a mangrove swamp, Catano (Heller, no. 

 1372, in fruit, May 23, 1899; type) ; rocky places in the forest 

 near Hatillo (Sintenis no. 6195, Dec. 2, 1877, foliage only). 



N. L. Britton. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 



Tuesday, November 12, 1901 



This meeting was held at the museum, Botanical Garden, 

 Bronx Park, at 3:30 p. m., Professor L. M. Underwood in the 

 chair, 20 persons present. 



