252 melastomacej: 



IMploch. Swartziana, BO. D. florida, DC. wp. Oruep. I D. rosea, Macf. Miconia Fother- 

 gVid., Nttnd. — A tree, 10'-50' high; leaves 3"-6'' loug; pedicels 3-6, bibracteate at the 

 I top ; calyx-tabe somewhat farrowed : teeth roundish or obsolete ; petals white and tinged 

 with crimson, or sometimes rosy ; anthers bitubercled at the base on the anterior side ; 

 seeds pyramidal.— Hab. Jamaica I, Macf., Pd., AL, Wils., in mountain woods to 4000' alt. , 

 Dominica I, Imr. ; S. Vincent I, Guild. ; Trinidad !, Siei. Trin. 60 j Or. ; [Portorico !, French ■ 

 islands ! ; Mexico to Brazil!]. 



33. D. mucronata, DC. Leaves oval, cuspidate, 5-plmerved, mbentire, petioled, rnsty 

 with oppressed down beneath ; panicle with clustered flowers ; bracts obovate, large; calyx 

 cUiate at the throat ; petals 5-6, glabrous ; ovary usually 4-locular ; stigma minute, blunt. — 

 Bonpl. Mel. 1. 18. Mart. Nov. Gen. t. 274. — D. bracteata, 7)C. Miconia mucronata, Nand. 

 — A small tree, 20'-3C' high ; leaves 4"-8" long ; flowers subsessile, bibracteate; calyx-tube 

 not furrowed ; teeth ovate, bluutish, deciduous ; petals white, fragrant ; anthers bitubercled 

 at the base on the anterior side. — Hab. Trinidad I ; .[Guiana ! to equatorial Brazil !]. 



34. D. serrulata, DO. Leaves ovate or elliptical-oblong, S-5-nerved, cremate, pe- 

 tioled, rusty-downy beneath, as are the braachlets ; panicle with clustered flowers ; bracts 



/smaller than the calyx ; calyx-tube farrowed; petals 5-6, tomentose on the outside; ovary 

 4-5-locular : stigma thickened, blunt. — Miconia, Naud. M. argentea, DO. M. data, DO. 

 — Melastoma acinodendron, L. ex Sloan, sec. hb. Bks. M. argentea, Sw. / .• a hoary form. 

 M. elata, Sw. .' : the common, rusty form.^ — A tree, 30'-40' high: branchlets compressed; 

 leaves 4"-12" long, 3"-4" broad, densely and deeply crenate, variable in the shape and 

 down ; flowers subsessile ; bracts ovate, deciduous ; calyx-teeth very short, roundish or ob- 

 solete ; anthers bitubercled at the base on the anterior side. 



a. Leaves ovate, blunt, with a point, minutely cordate at the base, 5-nerved. 



/8. leucocephala, DC. Leaves elliptical-oblong, more or less pointed, blunt at the base, 

 3-5-nerved, rusty-glaucous and less downy beneath. — Decaraphe Hostraanni, Steud. I — 

 An arborescent shrub, 20'-30' high ; leaves 3"-6" long, 2"-3" broad ; petals white.—This 

 is the common continental form. — Hab. Jamaica !, Jl. (o), in mountain woods ; Trinidad !, 

 Sck (a) ; Or. (j8) ; [Cuba ! (o), S. Thomas ; Mexico to Guiana 1 and Brazil !]. 



35. D. parviflora, Benth. ! Leaves oval, cuspidate, S-nerved, subentire, petioled, rnsty 

 or whitish beneath with a very short, appressed down; panicle with clustered jlowers ; 

 bracts oblong-linear, half the length of the calyx-tube ; petals 5, glabrous ; ovary 3-locular : 

 stigma minute. — D. eaudata, Orueg. {non DO.). Miconia verticilliflora, Steud. op. Naud. — 

 A shrub, 18-30' high ; leaves 3"-15" long ; branches of the panicle crowded, and divided 

 like a corymb ; flowers subsessile, bibracteate : bracts blunt, deciduous ; calyx-tube some- 

 what furrowed, about 1-J'" long, scarcely longer than the limb : teeth very short, roundish, 

 deciduous ; anthers produced into a short, blunt spur on the posterior, and somewhat glan ■ 

 dular at the base on the anterior side.— Hab. Trinidad 1, Lockh., Sch., in mountain woods ; 

 [Guiana !]. 



36. D. sessilifolia, Gr. Leaves large, elliptical-oblong or spathulate, protracted at 

 the base and clasping, oouspicuously irvpli-quintuplinerved, entire, rusty-cinnamon or glau- 

 cous beneath with a very short, appressed down ; panicle loose, with 2-3-flowered clusters ; 

 calyx-tube toraenf ose, not furrowed ; petals 5, glabrous ; ovary 3-locular : stigma minute, 

 blunt.— P/m/m. Phyt. t. 249./. 2: a single leaf from Guiana. — Melastoma sessilifolia, L. 

 sp.{excl.,sgn.Br.Jam.), Miconia Hukenetii, iVaac?. — A tree; leaves 8"— 24" long, some- 

 what wavy at the cuneate or blunt base : the lateral nerves in the bipedal leaf separating 

 about 3" above the base ; panicle often 1' long : inferior branches ascending, elongated, ra- 

 cemiform ; flower-heads bibracteate and lateral flowers bibracteolate, the central one ebrac- 

 teolate t bracts oblong, bracteoles oblong-linear, equalling the calyx-tube ; calyx-teeth lan- 

 ceolate, bluntish, deciduous ; petals white ; anthers densely glandular at the base on the 

 anterior side ; seeds angular, with the testa loose, rugose. — Hab. Trinidad I, XocM,, O., in 

 moist woods; [Guiana]. 



37. D. tomentosa, Gr. Leaves large, elliptical and cuneate at the base, subsessile or 

 shortly petioled, conspicuously triplinerved, entire, glabrescent above, rough with stellate 

 down beneath ; panicle contracted, elongated : flowers clustered ; calyx-tube tomentose, not 

 furrowed ; petals 5, glabrous ; ovary 3-5-locular ; stigma minute, blunt. — Bonpl. Mel. t. 

 16. — Melastoma, Bonpl. Miconia, DO. M.' brunnea, DC. Jucanda tomentosa, Benth. 



