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rugineous and glabrous, leaves oblong subcordate 

 acute at the apex with the margin subrevolute 

 very entire 3-nerved glabrous above scurfy with 

 a minute pubescence beneath, thyrse terminal, 

 panicled many-flowered. 



Melastoma tetrandra, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 795 — M. 

 tetrandrum, Spreng. Syst. II. 305. — Tetrazygia tetrandra 

 DC. Prod. III. 172. 



II A B, Summit of the Blue Mountain range. 

 FL. May. 



A shrubby tree about 12 feet in height, with spreading 

 branches. Leaves 3-4 inches in length, subcoriaceous : 

 petioles long. Thyrse terminal: divisions ferrugineo- 

 farinose : flowers small, white, crowded, subsessile. 

 Calyx minute, 4-teethed. Petals 4, very small, ovate, 

 concave, deciduous. Filaments 4, erect, about the length 

 of the petals. Ovary glabrous : style subulate: stigma 

 acute. Berry small. 



2. Tetrazygia Fadyeni. 



Branches compressed purpurascent glabrous, 

 leaves oval (in some specimens approaching to 

 lanceolate) entire and slightly revolute at the mar- 

 gin 3-ply-nerved glabrous, paler and minutely 

 punctulated beneath, panicle cymose terminal 

 longer than the leaves, calyx urceolate edentu- 

 lous, petals 4 oblong, stamens 8, ovary 2-celled. 



Hooker, Bot. Journal, for December, 1849. 



II A B. Road from Lluida's to St. Thomas in the Vale, 

 — Mount Diablo, Dr. M'Nab.— Rocks in the Pedro dis- 

 trict, St Ann's, Mr. Purdie. — Albion Pen, and Friend- 

 ship, St. Ann's, Dr. Alexander. 



F L. July. 



A shrub about 6 feet in height, branching from the 

 root ; branches opposite, decussating, compressed towards 

 the end and purpurascent. Leaves opposite, petiolate, 

 elliptic, in some plants approaching to lanceolate, in 

 others broad oval, obtuse, sub-entire with the margin 

 slightly revolute, 3-ply-nerved with a pair of obscure 



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