262 MEI/ASTOMACE^. 



nerved (rarely subtrinUnerved) ; panicle terminaJ, compouud, many-flowered not exceeding 

 the leaves : flowers subaessile or shortly stalked ;■ anthers 8-10, abruptly tailed : tmlmamf 

 armendage; stigma capitate; berry S-locular, not furrowed.— ^offljj/. Mel. t. 'i.—tHe^ 

 stoma, ««;.; a form with distinct sexes. M. thesezans, .Bom/i;. M. glaucocarpon, ScA/ec*^. / 

 M. glaberrimum, SeUecht.l: differing by a " white berry." Cremanium. theaezana, BG 

 'Miconia rubsns, microbotrya, a;bortiva, tetrastoma, Naiid., andpoHly hu M. milleflora.— A 

 shrub, a'-lO' high : branchlets usually reddish, obtuse-angled ; leaves 3"-4" long, yellowish- 

 green by being dried, serrulate or subentire : petiole, 4"'-13"' long ; panicle ovate : flowers 

 minute, crowded, ultimate ones shortly fescicled or clustered; the pedicels, if existing, 

 jointed below the top, with the bracteoles obsolete ; calyx semiglobose, 4"' long, usually with 

 4-5 minute teeth; petals 4-5, white, equalling the length of the calyx; anther-pores 4-2- 

 1 ; style at length exceeding the stamens ; berry blue. — Hab. Jamaica !, Ma<f., Pd., Al., 

 on the higher mountains ; [Cuba, Guadeloupe ; Mexico !]. 



72. C. Sieberi, Gr. Glabrous; branchlets tetragonal ;&«»«« eW^<Jca?-o4^o«^, taper- 

 ing at both ends, exquisitely trinerved, serrulate ; panicle terminal, compound, many-flow- 

 ered, shorter than the leaves : flowers subsessile or shortly stalked ; bracteoles oblong or 

 spathulate, blunt, yellowish, exceeding thetuds; petals 5 ; anthers . . .; ovary 3-locular. — 

 Miconia, DC. Mic. vulcanica, Naud.—Au arborescent shrub, 20'-25' high ; leaves 4"-6" 

 long : petiole l"-li" long ; panicle exactly as in the preceding species, from which it is 

 clearly distinct by its growth and by its peculiar bracts. The nodes produce usually dense 

 tufts of thread-shaped scales. — Hab. Dominica !, Mr. ; Trinidad, in mountain woods ; 

 [Gfuadeloupe, Venezuela]. 



73. C. trinitatis, Crueg.l Glabrous; leaves ovate-lanceolate, abruptly acuminate, 

 subtriplinerved or trinerved ; panicle terminar, loose, compound, equaUing the leaves : 

 flowers stalked ; anthers 10, taperingtowards the tail: te7 shortly biauriculated a.t the 'kaee ; 

 stigma minute, blunt ; berry 3-locular, not farrowed.— Miconia, Naud.—k shrub, 8'-10' 

 high : branchlets slender, tetragonal ; leaves 4" long, black in drying, subentire : peti- 

 ole 3"' long ; panicle pyramidal : primary branches with accessory inferior ones ; ultimate 

 fascicles usually 3-flowered, with the pedicels equalling the minute flower, or the central 

 shorter, jointed at the top: bracteoles minute or obsolete ; calyx -J'" long, ovate ; petals 5, 

 white, equalling the length of the calyx ; anthers 2-1 -pored, exceeding the style ; berry 1'" 

 diam. — Hab. Trinidad 1, Lockh., Or.; [Panama!, Guiana !]. 



74. C. Rivoerise, Gr. Branchlets powdery, glabrescent ; leaves elliptical or ellip- 

 tical-oblong, cordate or rounded at the base, subtriplinerved, entire, glabrous ; panicle ter- 

 minal, compound, many-flowered, equalling the leaves ; central flowers sessile ; calyx-tube 

 turbinate ; anthers 8, opening with a single, large, anterior pore : tail without appendage ; 

 stigma minute ; berry 2-loculai', 8-ribbed. — Miconia, Naud. — ^Leaves 4"-6" long : petiole 

 6"'-8"' long ; panicle pyramidal, trichotomous : bracteoles minute ; calyx f " long, petals 

 the same length ; berry 1"' diam., depressed-globose, purplish-black : seeds pyramidal, with 

 a large rhaphe. — Hab. Dominica 1, Imr.; [Martinique, Guadeloupe !, in mountain woods]. 



75. C. tetrandrum. Or. Branchlets lejiidote, tetragonal; leaves elliptical or oblong, 

 pointleted, trinerved, entire, glabrdus, dotted beneath by minute scales ; panicle terminal, 

 compound, many-flowered, exceeding the leaves : flowers shortly stalked, ebracteolate ; an- 

 thers 4, opening with 2, large, terminal pores : tail without appendage ; stigma minute ; 

 berry 4-loculaf, not ribbed. — Melastoma, Sw. Tetrazygia, BO. Miconia, Naud. — -4. low 

 tree, with the branches pale-rusty ; leaves 6"-4" long : petiole li"-l" long ; panicle pyra- 

 midal : calyx lejpidote, i"' long, semiglobose, constricted below the spreading, reduced limb ; 

 petals the same length, 4 ; beriy globose, li'" diam., crowned with the calyx-limb, black. — 

 Hab. Jamaica, on the summit of the Blue Mountain (Sto.);, [Cuba!, Guadeloupe!, in 

 mountain woods].. 



Tribe II. PTXIBAHTHEA— Fruit berried. Seeds not cochleate. Anthers com- 

 pressed, usually cohering py the cells : connective enlarged : its appendage, if present. 



17. BLAKBA, L.; Naud. {I. c. 18 p. 142. f. 6./. 1). 

 Calyic 6-lobed or 6-toothed, supported by a 4(-6)-leaved involucre. Anthers 12, cohering 



