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29. T. Bpondylantha, Gr. BraneUets slrigose ; fea»«« oblong or ovate-oblong, acu- 

 minate, T-h-plinened, rough above, vatber hoary with appressed down beneath ; pamc/e 

 «p8ci/bn», ioterrnpted ; petals 5, blunt; stigma minute, berry 3-locular. — Miq. Comment. 

 Phytogr. 2. /. 11 ^.— Miconia, DC. Clidemia verticillata, 3C. CI. violacea, DC. CI. 

 coccinea, DO. CI. spiciformis, Crueg. ! {noti DC). Miconia Fockeana, Miq. — A common 

 shrub of Guiana, usually 10'-12' high, variable in the form and the ribs of the leaves, and 

 in the branches being cylindrical or tetragonal : easily recognizable by the lateral pairs of 

 nerves being distant from each other, and by the peculiar inflorescence, formed of distant 3- 

 7-<lowered clusters ; down of the branches somewhat sjllcy, yellowish, appressed ; leaves 4"-7 

 12" loug, tapering a little towards the petiole ; panicle compound only at the base ; calyx- 

 limb repand, with five minute tubercles on the back ; anthers curved, without appendages ; 

 berry blue ; seeds pyramidal. — Hab. Trinidad !, SoA., Zockh., Cr., in savannahs and along 

 riversides; [Guiana 1, equatorial Brazil I, Peru!], 



7. HET£ROTRICHUM, DC; Naud. {I. c. \?,.p. 86). 



Olaj/ya campanulate : lobes 6-5-4, subulate, spreading. Anthers 12-10-8, oblong, in- 

 flexed above the ovary, opening first by a single terminal pore, and "at length by fissures : 

 cells distinct nearly to the top, curved. Ovary adherent, crowned by a neck, encircling the 

 base of the style, bearing a minute, deciduous down. Seeds conical,— Shrubs, with hispid 

 down ; panicle terminal. 



30. H. niTeum, DC. Branches and petioles glandular-pilose and steUate-downy ; 

 leaves cordate-ovate, cuspidate, 5-nerved, glahrescent above, whitish beneath with stellate 

 down ; cyme corymbiform, straggling, few-flowered ; calyx 5-6-fid : lobes filiform from a 

 subulate base ; ovary 10-12-locular : stigma blunt. — Bonpl. Mel. t. 44. — Melastoma patens, 

 Sw. H. patens, DC. — A shrub, 6'-10' high ; leaves 3"-5" long, abont double the length 

 of the peftple ; calyx-tube at' length globose, equalling^ the lobes ; petals obovate, 6'"-8"' 

 long, rosy-white ; anthers without appendages ; berry 8"'-10"' diam., hairy, black. — Hab. 

 Jamaica !, all coU., common qa the lower hills of the interior ; [Cuba I, Haiti !, Portorico]. 



31. H. hispidum, Gr. Branches and petioles setose and furfuraceous ; leaves o\ate, 

 pointed, 3-nerved, rough and substrigose above, setose on the nerves, and often bearded in the 

 axils of veins beneath; panicle spreading ; calyx i-fid: lobes ovate and shortly apiculated ; 



. ovary 4-locular ; stigma minute. — Melastoma, Sw. M. glandulosum, Sw. Tetrazygia, Macf. 

 H. octandrum, Jifa^ I Cremaniura glandulosum, DC. Miconia glandnlosa, Naud. — A 

 shrub ; leaves 2i"-4^05g, petioled, covered on the upper side by short, thick, scattered 

 bristles ; calyx-tube at length globose, a little longer than the lobes ; petals peach-coloured ; 

 anthers tubercled at the base on the anterior side ; neck of the ovai-y very short and soon 

 glabrescent. 



a. Leaves rough with bi^^stles above. 



;8. lamius, leaves less rough, without bristles above, and with fewer hairs beneath; calyx 

 smaller and exceeded by the clawed petals. 



Hab. Jamaica !, Sw., Macf., AL, March^ WuUschl. (/3), on the hiUs of the interior. 



8. DIPLOCHITA, DC. 



(Jucuuda, Cham. Pogonorrhynchus, Crueg. Miconise sect. Adenosma, Diplochita, et 



Jucunda, Naud.) 



Calyx campanulate : limb produced, spreading : teeth short, bluntish, or obsolete. An- 

 thers 10-12, beaked-subulate, inflexed towards the bottom of the calyx, opening with a sin- 

 gle terminal pore : cells connected. Ovary bearing a minute, deciduous down at the umbiU- 

 cated top : upper margin thickened. — Trees or high shrubs, not hispid; leaves large : upper 

 side at length glabrous; panicle terminal, trichotomous, with accessory inferior branch- 

 lets : flowers bracteate, clustered or arranged in vmbelliform cymes ; petals blunt. 



32. D. Fothergilla, DC. Leaves ovale, acuminate, or pointed, h-nerved, subentire, 

 petioled, rusty-downy beneath, as are the branchlets ; panicle constituted of umbelliform 

 cymes ; bracts obovate, large ; calyx glabrous at its throat ; petals 5-6, glabrous ; ovary 6- 

 3-locuiar ; stigma peltate. — Aubl. t. 175. Bonpl. Mel. t. 32, 33. — Melastoma Tamonea, Sw. 



