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II A B. Common, higher mountains. 
F. L. June — August. 
A shrub, 5-10 feet in height, erect, branched. Leaves 
opposite, acuminate with the apex sharp, finely serrulated, 
smooth shining and deep green above, paler beneath, 
delicately veined : petiole terete, purpurascent, channel* 
led above. Flowers axillary, solitary, peduncled. Brac- 
tece leaf-like, deciduous. Calycine teeth membranaceous, 
expanded at the base, subulate. Petals white, tinged, 
with crimson near the base. Stamens 10: filaments 
tcneitorm : anthers lanceolate, incurved at the apex. 
Ovary 5 lobed : style slightly declinate : stigma simple. 
Capsule 5-valved : seeds numerous, minute, wedge-shaped. 
2. Meriania rosea. Hose Mcrianici. 
Bi anchlets terete glabrous, leaves oval 3-nerved 
subserrulated glabrous, biglandulose at the base, 
bracteic 2 linear slightly expanded at the apex. 
Tussac, FI. Antill. 78. t. 6. 
II A B. Higher mountains. Near St. Catherine’s peak. 
F. L. February — May. 
A shrubby tree, about 10 feet in height: branchlets 
purpurascent. Leaves acuminate with the apex sharp, 
subacute at the base. 3-nerved, glabrous with exception 
of the under surface of the nerves where it is hispidulous, 
serrulated : petiole slightly grooved above, hispidulous. 
Peduncles axillary, solitary, one-flowered, about an inch in 
length, compressed. Bracteoe 2, an inch in length, lineari- 
cylindrical, somewhat dilated and convoluted towards 
the apex. Calycine divisions subulate, with a membrana- 
ceous expansion at the base. Petals rounded at the apex, 
and slightly extended on one side, of a crimson red. Sta- 
mens 10; filaments flattened, teneiform : anthers lanceo- 
late, white, furnished at the base with a spur-like process, 
previous to expansion doubled down on the 'filaments, 
springing up on evolution. Ovary globose, 5-lobuled at 
the summit : style cylindrical, with five lines of asperities 
towards the apex, erect : stigma simple. Capsule 5- 
oelled : seeds many. 
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