melastomace^l. 77 



together, rather more than an inch in length : flowers 

 small, shortly pediceHed : pedicels capillary, jointed and 

 bibracteolated near the flower. Calyx obscurely 5-lobed. 

 Petals 5, obtuse. Style elongated : stigma obtuse. 



XIII. MlCONIA. 



Calycine tube adhering to the ovary : limb 

 short, persistent, 5-toothed, with the teeth obtuse, 

 augmented on the inner surface with a broad 

 membrane, frequently after expansion adpresso- 

 connivent over the ovary. Petals 5, obo- 

 vate, obtuse. Stamens 10 : anthers oblongo- 

 linear, shortly and obtusely auriculated at the 

 base. Ovary somewhat umbilicated and very 

 glabrous at the apex : style filiform : stigma 

 obtuse. Capsule berried, 5-celled : seeds 3-sided, 

 with a black linear hilum. —DC. 



Named in honor of D. Micon, M. D., a Spanish Botanist. 



Sect. i. leiosphjERji. 



Calyx and fruit very glabrous. Flowers 

 crowded and uniserial along the branches of a 

 terminal thyrse. Leaves 3-nerved, usually cili- 

 ated, 



1. Miconia circumsecta. Sessile-Jlowered 

 Miconia. 



Branches tetragonal as also the panicles and 

 petioles glabrous, leaves lanceolate attenuated 

 at the apex minutely ciliato-serrulated 5-nerved 

 with the lateral pair less distinct glabrous 

 with exception of a nidiform tuft of brown 

 hairs in the axils of the central nerves on the 

 under surface, branches of the thyrse filiform 

 bifurcating, flowers small, calyx minutely 5- 

 toothed, with the tube after flowering cir- 



