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II A B. Common, higher mountains. 

 F. L. June — August. 



A shrub, 5-10 feet in height, erect, branched. Leaves 

 opposite, acuminate with the apex sharp, finely serrulated, 

 smooth shining and deep green above, paler beneath, 

 delicately veined : petiole terete, purpurascent, channel- 

 led above. Flowers axillary, solitary, peduncled. Brac- 

 teae leaf-like, deciduous. Calycine teeth membranaceous, 

 expanded at the base, subulate. Petals white, tinged, 

 with crimson near the base. Stamens 10 : filaments 

 teneiform : anthers lanceolate, incurved at the apex. 

 Ovary 5 lobed : style slightly declinate : stigma simple. 

 Capsule 5-vaIved : seeds numerous, minute, wedge-shaped. 



2. Meriania rosea. Rose Meriania. 



Branchlets terete glabrous, leaves oval 3-nerved 

 subserrulated glabrous, biglandulose at the base, 

 braclese 2 linear slightly expanded at the apex. 



Tussac, Fl. Antill. 78. t. 6. 



II A B. Higher mountains. Near St. Catherine's peak. 

 F. L. February— May. 



A shrubby tree, about 16 feet in height: branchlets 

 purpurascent. Leaves acuminate with the apex sharp, 

 subacute at the base, 3-nerved, glabrous with exception 

 of the under surface of the nerves where it is hispidulous, 

 serrulated : petiole slightly grooved above, hispidulous. 

 Peduncles axillary, solitary, one- flowered, about an inch in 

 length, compressed. Bracteoe 2, an inch in length, lineari- 

 cylindrical, somewhat dilated and convoluted towards 

 the apex. Calycine divisions subulate, with a membrana- 

 ceous expansion at the base. Petals rounded at the apex, 

 and slightly extended on one side, of a crimson red. Sta- 

 mens 10; filaments flattened, teneiform : anthers lanceo- 

 late, white, furnished at the base with a spur-like process, 

 previous to expansion doubled down on the filaments, 

 springing up on evolution. Ovary globose, 5-lobuled at 

 the summit : style cylindrical, with five lines of asperities 

 towards the apex, erect : stigma simple. Capsule 5- 

 celled : seeds many. 



