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leaves is very remarkable, and for a lime puzzled me 

 much. Were it not for several discrepancies, it might be 

 referred to the succeeding Genus. 



I 



3. Harrera trinervis. Three-nerved Harrera. 



A shrub, branches at the end compressed and 

 slightly sulcated, as also the under surface ot the 

 leaves the peduncles and petioles albido-rufescent 

 and stellato-tomentulose, leaves ovato-lanceoiate 

 roundtd at the base sub-entire, calyx globose 

 where it adheres to the ovary 4-toothed, stamens 

 8, berry 3-ceiled. 



H A B. Near Green Valley, Port Royal . 

 F Li August. 



A shrub 5 10 feet in height; branches erect, com- 

 pressed, towards the extremity slightly sulcated on the 

 flattened sides, and minutely and densely stellato-puberu- 

 lous. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovato-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, rounded at the base, sub entire, 3-nerved beside the 

 marginal pair, above apparently glabrous, ^ut to the glass 

 minutely stellato puberulous, beneath incano-ferruginous, 

 and farinoso-tomentulose with a minute stellated pub- 

 escence: petiole stellato-tomentulose. Panicle terminal 

 of comparatively few flowers, shorter than the leaves : 

 branches decussating. Flowers white, shortly pedicelled. 

 Calyx globose whe e it covers the ovary: the tube 8- 

 agonal, stellato-puberulous: limb spreading, with 4 subu- 

 late teeth inserted below the edge of the limb. Petals 



4. Stamens 8 : filaments kneed : anthers yellow, 1- 

 pored. Style longer than the petals; stigma simple. 

 Berry purple, 3-ceiled : seeds wedge-shaped. 



IX. Heterotrichum. 



Calycine tube ovato-globose 5 limb 5-8-fid, with 

 the lobes subulate, elongated, persistent, broadly 

 dilated at the base. Petals 5-8, oval. Stamens 

 10-16, equal: filaments glabrous; anthers oblong 

 scarcely gibbous, bi-porose at the apex. Ovary 

 glabrous at the apex 5 umbilicated : style cylin- 



