78 CALYCIFLORiE. 



cumcised, stamens 10, stigma umbilicated, berry 

 5-celled. 



II A B. Near the Moneague.— Dr. Alexander. 



F L. January — March. 



A shrub, about 12 feet in height. Leaves about 8 

 inches in length, rounded at the base, attenuated at the 

 apex, finely serrated with the teeth setose, 5-nerved be- 

 sides a very obscure marginal pair, with the nerves on 

 the under surface coloured ; tufts of woolly hairs copious, 

 and of a brown colour. Thyrse terminal, rather shorter 

 than the leaves ; branches opposite, bifurcating, with the 

 subdivisions long, filiform, bearing the small sessile 

 flowers in a spike like manner. Alibastrum globose: 

 calyx glabrous, ur^eolate : teeth 5, minute ; the tubular 

 portion circumcised as the fruit ripens ; tube furnished 

 internally with a circular projecting membrane for the 

 insertion of the petals and stamens. Petals 5, rounded, 

 concave, white. Stamens 10, purple : anthers oblong, 

 opening by a single pore. Style erect, rather short. 

 Berry size of a black pepper, juicy, blackish, 5-celled: 

 seeds minute. 



This species comes very near to Miconia congesti- 

 flora, a native of the Brazils. 



2. Miconia verticillata. Scarlet-berried Mi- 

 conia, 



Branchlets bisulcated sub-hexangular, leaves 

 very shortly petiolate opposite unequal in size 

 lanceolate entire 3-nerved without a marginal 

 pair glabrous, inflorescence terminal an inter- 

 rupted spike with the flowers sessile crowded 

 whorled, berry 5-celled. 



HAB. Damp wooded gullies — Near Moneague, -Dr. 

 Alexander. 



F L, December — January. 



A shrub about 8 feet in height : branchlets sub-hexan- 

 gular, from thin sharp ridges passing down from each 

 petiole : when young farinoso-puberulous, afterwards gla- 

 brous. Leaves, the larger ones 8, the shorter 5 inches 

 in length, thin, membranaceous, glabrous, entire : petiole 



