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thera 10, obovate, without appendages, hanging from the deeply inflexed ^lament above the 

 ovary : cells connected, opening with a large, anterior, longitudinal fissure, reaching'almost 

 to the base, and common to both of them : connective produced into a very short tail, con- 

 tinuous with the filament. Chary adherent, depressed and glabrous at the top. Berry 

 3(-4)-locular: cells dispermous. Seeds large, triangular: rhaphe enlarged; embryo in- 

 flexed, with the cotyledous plaited. — ^Shrubs not hispid, viiih a rusty doum ; panicles termi- 

 nal, and accessory ones from the axils: flowers clustered or fascicled; petals blunt. 



62. E. punctata, Gr. leaves lanceolate, acuminate, triplinerved, glabrous above, golden- 

 rusty with leprous down beneath; panicle rusty-leprous :jlfl!ffCT'j clustered ot Aoxiiy serial; 

 anthers exceeded by the style ; stigma funnd-shaped, truncate. — Bonpl. Mel. t. 40 ; the 

 fiTictiferous state, in which the berries appear stalked, only one in the cluster being developed. 

 — Micouia, Don. M. discolor, Macf. I M. fulva, Crueg. I (non DO.). — A shrub, about 6' 

 high, with the compressed branchlets leprous ; leaves 3"-5" long, with a metallic lustre and 

 usually dark-coloured dots beneath, tapering into the petiole, subentire or crenulate ; petiole 

 2"'-4'" long ; panicle pyramidal, exceeded by the leaves : primary branches raoemiform, 

 spreading, rather rigid, secondary ones equalling the flower- clusters ; calyx turbinate, 

 rusty-leprous, 1"' long, half the length of the style ; petals whitish, roundish, scarcely 1'" 

 long. — Hab. Jamaica I, Macf., Al.,ia mountain woods; Trinidad I, dr.; [Haiti; Para, 

 Spruce']. 



63. E. fulva, Or. (n. sp.). Leaves ovate or oblong, pointleted, with a narrow point, 

 trinerved or subtriplinerved, glabrous above, rough with scattered stellate down, and rusty- 

 tomeutose on the ribs beneath^ or glabrescent ; panicle rusty-tomentose or powdery-; flowers 

 shortly stalked, ternate. — An arborescent shrub, 25-30' high, with the branchlets com- 

 pressed, rusty-tomentose ; leaves 6"-10" long, concolor and when dried rusty oh both 

 sides, variable in breadth, bluntish at the base, subentire : petiole thick, 4"'-8"' long, and 

 libs prominent beneath ; panicles pyramidal, slender, terminal and axillary, stalked, exceeded 

 by the leaves ; primary branches racemiform ; pedicels 1'" long, equalling the berry ; berry 

 globose, 3-locular, with longitudinal, distant ridges : cells dispermous ; seeds shining, black, 

 convex on the back, flat and keeled on the ventral side, almost as long as the cells. — Hab. 

 Trinidad !, Lockh., Pd., in mountain woods. 



Miconia ferruginea, DC, of Haiti, is probably a third species of this genus, the 

 anthers of which Naudin has described as agreeing with om- generic character (" antheris 

 obovatis, poro maximo fere in rimam producto hiantibus "). According to Naudin's de- 

 scription, it only difiers in haviug tetragonal branches, dentate leaves, and longer pedi- 

 cels. Mic. astralasia, DC, is perhaps a synonym. It seems to occur in Jamaica, as 

 from M'l'adyen'a description (" anthers opening by a longitudinal fissure, being widest at 

 the apex ; pedicels \" in length ") his Chtenopleura stelligera from Portland woods is pro- 

 bably the same plant, though the berry be described by him as many-seeded : it must, how- 

 ever, not be confounded with the similar Mic. rubiginosa, DC, collected by Sir R. Schora- 

 bnrgk in Haiti, which is a true Miconia. 



13. CH^NOPLETJRA, Crweg. {non Rich.). 



Calyx semiglobose : limb reduced : teeth rounded or obsolete. Anthers 10, obovate, 

 hanging from the deeply inflexed filament above the ovaiy : cells connected, opening with a 

 large, anterior, longitni^nal fissure, common to both of them ; connective produced into a 

 slender tail, continuous with the filament, and somewhat aurioled at the base. Ovary adhe- 

 rent, crowned with a glabrous, denticulate neck, 3-locular : ovules in each cell indefinite. 

 Berry small, furrowed. " Seeds angular : embryo inflexed, with the cotyledons plaited" (6>-.). 

 — Trees, not hispid: hr:aniMetB t^ragonal ; leaves large, sometimes whorled ; panicle ier- 

 minal (or sometimes axillary), very compound ; flowers very small, clustered or shortly 

 serial. 



64. Ch. ferruginea, Crueg. ! Branches, petioles, and ander side of leaves rusty- or 

 hoary-tomeniose with a very short appressed down ; leaves dliptical-oblong, pointleted, 8-5- 

 nerved, regularly crenate; panicle trichotomous (or with whorled branches), pyramidal: 

 flowers small, numberless. — SI. t. 196./. 1. Bonpl. Mel. t. 23. — Melastoma fulva, Bonpl. 

 Miconia, DC. M. longifolia, a, Naud. M. Ciuegeriana, Naud. — A tree, 30-40' high ; leaves 

 6"-12" long, rounded at the base, glabrous above: petiole l"-2" long ; petals white, obo- 



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