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fonn of the same, the seeds being simply olavate-conical in the common silTcr-colonred 

 type. Harrera trinervis, Macf. ! — A shruh, 5-10' high : the branchlets covered with 

 scales, which at length becoming loosened and torn, give the appeai-ance of a powdery down, 

 but less regularly stellate than in o ; the leprous under side of the leaves either white or 

 pale glaucous, sometimes passing into stellate down ; flowers shortly stalked j petals white, 

 usually 5 (" 4-6," Rich.) ; berry " purple." 



Hab. Jamaica 1 (o and j8) : all coll., in mountain-woods and valleys ; Bahamas I, Swains. ; 

 [Cuba!, Haiti!, Mexico!]. 



45. T. elseagnoides, JDC. Leaves elliptical-lanceolate or lanceolate, sharply taper- 

 pointed, irinerved, whitened beneath by tomentose down ; panicle corymbiform, loose ; 

 calyx-tube twice as long as the limb : teeth 4, roundish or obsolete, usually exceeded by an 

 exterior subulate appendage; anthers 8 ; pore minute, turned outwards i ovary4-locular. — 

 TaJil, Ic. Amer, t. 28. Bonpl. Mel. t. 13. — Melastoma, Sw. ! Tetraz. laxiflora, Naiid. ! : 

 a slender form, with richer, sometimes racemiform panicle {Linden, Cub. 2094, _2036). — 

 A shrub ; the down less appressed, and the leaves narrower than in the preceding specie^ ; 

 petals 4, rosy or_ white, 3"'-l"' long, obovate-oblong or oblong. — Hab. Caribbean Inlands; 

 [Cuba! to Martinique]. 



46. T. discolor, DC. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, sharply poiutleted, subtripli- 

 nerved, white beneath, with appressed, scaly down ; panicle corymbiform, contracted, many- 

 flowered ; calyx-tube as long as the limb : teeth 4, roundish (sometimes pointed) ; anthers 

 8 : pore turned inwards on the bluntish or transversely truncate, inflexed top ; ovary 4-lo- 

 cular. — Jacg. Amer. Fief. t. 1 25. Vahl, Mel. t, 7. Sonpl. Mel. t. 34. — Melastoma, L. 

 M. acuminata, Yahl. M. elseagnoides, Sieb. Trin. 61! — A low shrub; leaves entire, the 

 same size as in T. angustiflora, but flowers densely crowded, fastigiate and much smaller, the 

 calyx being 3'" long and the petals even less : these oval, whitish ; berry 2'" dlam., blue ; 

 seeds obovate, somewhat angular. 



a Branchlets leprous ; leaves quite entire. 



^. villosa. Branchlets, panicle, and petioles villous, with hairs forked at the top ; leaves 

 serrulate (or sometimes entire). 



Hab. S. Kitts !, Montserrat, Dominica !, Imr. (/3.) ; S. Vincent !, Guild., in mountain 

 woods ; [Pi-ench islands !, Sieb. Mart. 117]. 



Sect. 2. Lacluaria. — Calyx-limb irregularly torn: pieces 3— B ; pedicels pointed, hearing 

 two minute bracts at the top. — Shrubs, wholly glabrous ; branchlets cylindrical. 



47. T. cornifolia, Gr. Lea/ees ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, taper-pointed, subtripli- 

 nerved, entire, glabrous ; panicle spreading ; calyx-tiibe furrowed, a little longer than the 

 torn limb ; anthers 10 ; pore turned inibards on the transversely truncate, curved top ; 

 ovary 3-locular. — Bonpl. Mel. t. 41 .^Conostegio, Ser. Micouia, Naud. — A shrub ; leaves 

 l"-6" long ! petals white, obovate, about 3'" long, equalling the length of the calyx, but ex- 

 ceeded by the stamens ; anthers tumid at the base. — ^Hab. S. Vincent !, Guild. ; [Marti- 

 nique !]. 



48. T. semicrenata, Gr. Leaves ovate or lanlseolate, produced into a narrow, tapp- 

 ing point, sub-3-nerved, siimate-dentate or orenate-repand towards the middle part, glabrous ; 

 panicle spreading ; calyx-tube furrowed, twice the length of the torn limb ; anthers 10 : 

 pore turned inwards on the transversely truncate, curved top ; ovary 3-locular. — Bonpl. 

 Mel. t. 31. — Melastoma acuminatum, Sieb. I Mari.116 (non Vahl). M. adpressum, Prl. ', 

 ibid. Conostegia semicrenata, Ser. Micouia, Naud. — A shrub; leaves variable, 6"-l" 

 long, 3"-4" broad ; petals white, of the same size and proportions as in the' preceding, 

 nearly allied species ; anthers biaurioulated at the base on the anterior side.^ — Hab. Domi- 

 nica!, Imr., S. Vincent!, Guild.; [Cuba!, French islands!]. 



11. MICONIA, 28.?. reform. 



(Micouia, sect. Eumiconia, Hzud. exclus. sp. Glossocentrnm, Crueg. Pachyanthus, Bieh. 

 Sarcomeris, Naud. Hartigia, Miq.) 



Calyx turbinate, semiglobose or shortly eampanulate : limb reduced ; teeth short, blunt- 

 ish or obsolete. Anthers 10-8 (-12), oblong-linear and usually tapering towards the top 



