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CALYCIFLORjE. 



Branches of the panicle long, pale-ferruginous and velu- 

 tine, compressed. Flowers minute, bracteolated, crowd- 

 ed, sessile. 



20. Miconia pyramidalis. Pyramidal-flow- 



ering Miconia. 



Branchlets tetragonal sparingly ferrugineo- 

 farinose, leaves broad-lanceolate rounded at the 

 base acute 3-nerved beside a marginal pair sub- 

 glabrous above sparingly hispidulo-farinose be- 

 neath obscurely denticulated, thyrse terminal 

 with its branches brachiate, petals 5 oblong re- 

 flected, berry minute. 



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



F L. March. 



Leaves with the margin revolute, and with the teeth se- 

 tose. Peduncle tetragonal, farinoso-puberulous : branch- 

 lets short. Flowers small, white, subsessile, minutely 

 bibracteolated. Calycine teeth 5, minute, obtuse, with a 

 green prominence on the back of each. Petals obtuse, 

 reflected. Stamens 10: anthers one-pored. Style longer 

 than the stamens : stigma obtuse. Berry crowned with 

 the tubeless calyx. 



21. Miconia parviflora. Small-jloivered Mi- 



conia. 



Branches subrotund slightly (when young) fer- 

 rugineo-farinose, leaves oblongo-lanceolate slight- 

 ly rounded at the base attenuated at the apex 

 subentire or obscurely denticulated 3-nerved be- 

 sides an obscure marginal pair glabrous above 

 hispidulous along the nerves beneath, thyrse ter- 

 minal, flowers small subsessile, calyx 5-toothed, 

 berry minute 5-celled- 



HAB. Khuua-Khuna road from Bath. Reverend T. 

 Wharton. 



F L. April. 



A shrub about 8 feet in heigh*. Leaves about 3 inches 



