82 CALYCIFLORJE. 



at the base, shortly acuminate at the apex, den- 

 tate with the teeth irregular and blunt, 5-nerved 

 beside the marginal pair, bright green and gla- 

 brous above, albido-velutine beneath, panicle ter- 

 minal, flowers numerous shortly pedicelled, calyx 

 acutely 5-toothed. 



Acinodendrum x\mericanum, 5 nervium concantibus 

 flosculis, foliis amplissimis glabris, procera parte albican- 

 tibus. Pluk. ManL 4. — Grossularias fructu arbor, maxi- 

 ma, non spinosa, malabathri folio maxima inodoro. 

 Shane, II. 84 t. 196. — Melastoma argentea, Swartz, Fl. 

 Ind. Ooc. 779.— Miconia argentea, DC. Prod. III. 182. 



H A B. Portland Woods. Ilev. T. Wharton. 



F L. June. 



A tall shrub. Leaves about 18 inches long and 10* 

 inches broad : petiole about 2 inches in length. Flowers, 

 according to Swartz, minute ; with the petals ovate ; and 

 the stamens 10, and short. Berry subglobose. 



This species is remarkable for the size of the leaves. 

 I regret 1 have not met with it in perfect flower. 



8. Miconia bracteata. Bracteated Miconia. 



Branchlets compressed densely ferrugineo- 

 velutine, leaves broad-ovate cordate at the base 

 shortly acuminate denticulated with the teeth 

 blunt and callous 5-nerved besides a marginal pair 

 bright green above incano-tomentose with a fer- 

 ruginous tinge beneath 7 thyjrse terminal, bractea? 

 woolly concave deciduous, stamens 12, berry 12- 

 costate 6-celled. 



H A B. Khuna-khuna road, near Milbank. 



F L. August. 



Leaves about a foot in length, and six inches in breadth, 

 transversely veined, wi h the upper surface bright green: 

 petiole about 3-inches in length, compressed, ferrugineo- 

 farinose. Thyrse about a foot in length : peduncle com- 

 pressed, somewhat sulcated, incano-tomentose : branches 

 subdivided. Flowers shortly pedicelled, clustered at the 

 ends of the subdivisions, at first concealed in the bracteae, 



