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Leaves about 8 inches long and 2 broad, with the mar- 

 ginal nerves so close to the edge as to be obscure. Flow- 

 ers minute, white, subsessile, crowded, minutely bracteo- 

 lated. Calyx externally farinose, minutely 5-toothcd with a 

 gland-like apicula on the bark of each tooth. Petals 5, 

 obtuse. Stamens 10 : filaments capillary : anthers one- 

 pored. Style erect, longer than the stamens: stigma 

 subcapitate, depressed. Berry black, 5-celled : seeds 

 wedge-shaped, angular. 



12. Miconia glabra. Glabrous Miconia. 



Branchlets compressed slightly puberulous, 

 leaves lanceolate with the apex obtuse, attenuated 

 at the base so as to be deeurrent, 3-ply-nerved 

 without a prominent pair of marginal nerves en- 

 tire, thyrse terminal, flowers crowded subsessile 

 minutely bibracteolated, calyx obso'etely and 

 obtusely 5-fid, petals 5, stigma incrassated to- 

 wards the stigma which is depressed, berry 4 (?)- 

 celled. 



II A B. St. Ann. 



F L. January. 



A shrub. Leaves very shortly petiolate, glabrous, 3 

 inches long and one broad. Peduncle and its divisions 

 tomentulose. Calyx very small, turbinate. Petals im- 

 bricating, rounded at the apex. Stamens longer than 

 the petals : anthers linear, 1 -pored. Berry small, size 

 of a coriander seed, 4-celled : seeds angular. 



13, Miconia discolor. Discoloured Miconia. 



Branchlets compressed ash-coloured with a 

 russet tinge minutely lepidose, leaves unequal in 

 size lanceolate attenuated at the apex entire gla- 

 brous above, argenteo-lepidose with a rufous tinge 

 beneath, 3-nerved with a very obscure marginal 

 pair, thyrse terminal, flowers minute subsessile 

 crowded in clusters, calyx externally rufo-lepi- 

 dose, petals ovate acute, stigma subcapitate re- 

 tuse. 



