80 CALYC1 FLORAE. 



incano-rufescent and woolly beneath, flowers 

 sessile unilateral. 



Melastoma albicans. Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 786 — M. 

 holosericea, Linn. Sp. 556 — Miconia holosericea, DC. 

 Prod. III. 161. 



HA B. St. Thomas in the Yale. 

 F, L. February. 



Stem 10-12 feet in height: branches free of hairiness. 

 Leaves 4^-5 inches long, and about 2 broad ; the under 

 surface of the r.erves rufescent : petiole about half an 

 inch in length. Thyrse terminal, longer than the leaves : 

 branches patulous; branchlets bifurcated, with the sub- 

 divisions about an inch in length, somewhat recurved. 

 Peduncle and its subdivisions subtetragonal, incano- 

 l ufescent : branchlets aureo-rufescent, subglabrous. furn- 

 ished at the subdivisions with a pair of oblong rufescent 

 appressed bractese. Flowers numerous, crowded, sessile, 

 secund, white. Calyx externally tomentose and rufe- 

 scent, 5-dentate with the teeth small, Petals oblong, 

 rounded at the apex, reflected. Stamens 10: anthers 

 biauriculated at the base, one-pored. Style declinate, 

 thick towards the stigma which is umbilicated. Berry 

 small, subrotund, 3-4-celled, violaceous : seeds cuneato- 

 trihedrcus, 



5. Miconia rufescens. Rufescent Miconia. 



Branchlets compressed rufescent, leaves broad- 

 ovate shortly acuminate rounded and subcordate 

 at the base denticulated 5-nerved sub-glabrous 

 above incano-tomentose and rufescent especially 

 along the nerves beneath, panicle erect length 

 of the leaves with the branches short, flowers 

 subsessile, calyx obscurely 5-toothed witn the 

 teeth obtuse, ovary free and produced at the 

 apex, style elongated and minutely hispid ulous. 



HAB. Limestone districts, in thickets. Near Mo- 

 neague, Dr. Alexander. 

 F L. December — March. 



