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18. Miconia palustris. Marsh Miconia. 



Branchlets subterete slightly channelled gla- 

 brous, leaves lanceolate entire glabrous 3-ply- 

 nerved without a marginal pair, petiole winged 

 with the decurrent leaf, panicle terminal with the 

 peduncle cinereo-pruinose, calyx minutely 5- 

 tcothed incano-pruinose, stigma excavated. 



HAB. Marsh near Grosmond, St. Elizabeth's Dr. 

 MacNab. Marsh near Moneague, Dr. Alexander. 

 F L. March. 



Leaves about 4 inches in length and one in breadth, une- 

 qual at the base, subsessile. Divisions of the peduncle 

 tetragonal : branches very patent, brachiate : flowers 

 small, subsessile, clustered, bracteolated. Petals 5, 

 rounded at the apex. Stamens 10: filaments capillary: 

 anthers minutely biauriculated at the base, 1-pored. 

 Style erect. Berry black, size of a coriander seed, 5- 

 celled : seeds wedge-shaped 



The leaves are plane, and have a greasy feel and ap- 

 pearance, and resemble those of the Bucida Buceras. 



19. Miconia microcarpa. Small-fruited Mi- 

 conia. 



Branchlets tetragonal pale-ferruginoo-velutine, 

 leaves broad-lanceolate subacuminate slightly 

 attenuated at the base subrepando-denticulated 

 subglabrous 5-nerved, thyrse terminal much 

 branched, limb of the calyx short truncated, fruit 

 obscurely 10-ribbed. 



Melastoma laevigata, Aubl. Guian. 412. t. 159. — Mico- 

 nia microcarpa, DC. Prod. III. 189. 



HAB. Moneague, Dr. Alexander. 

 F L. March, 



Leaves shortly petiolated, with minute scattered 

 stellated hairs above, paler and subglabrous beneath. 



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