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II A B. Mountain woods. 
FL, Spring and Autumn. 
A shrub: branches at the end tetragonal, and pilose,- 
Leaves 3-4 inches long, nerved, strigose and rufous above, 
reticulately veined and hoary-tomentose beneath : pe- 
tiole an inch in length. Panicle axillary, solitary, erect, 
shorter than the leaves ; flowers 3-4 together, purpura- 
scent. Calycine teeth 5, long, filiform, hispid, erect. 
Petals oblong, shortly clawed. Filaments 10, filiform, 
short, kneed : anthers linear, incurved, short. Ovary 
hirsute ; style short : stigma obtuse. Berry crowned with 
the calyx, hirsute, many-seeded, 
3. Clidemia hirsuta. Rougli-lcaved Clidemia, 
Branches subterete, as also the petioles, upper 
surface of leaves and peduncles hispid with short 
thick strigose seta), leaves ovate acuminate 3-ply- 
nerved serrulated rugose above reticulato-foveo- 
lated beneath, thyrse terminal short sessile, divi- 
sions 2-flowered, calycine teeth 5 reflected, pe- 
tals lanceolate, stamens 10. 
II A B. Port Royal Mountains, near Rosanna Mount. 
FL. June. 
A shrub 4-G feet in height : branches patulous, com- 
pressed at the end. strigoso-scabrous with dense shoit 
subulate hairs. Leaves opposite, petiolated, ovate, acu- 
minate, unequal at the base, denticulato-serrulated, 3-ply- 
nerved, with the lateral nerves not opposite, and a mar- 
ginal pair indistinct, deep green above, paler beneath, 
with the nerves ferruginous : petiole strigoso- hirsute. 
Panicle terminal, scarcely the length of the leaf, trichoto- 
mously divided : branches opposite, spreading horizon- 
tally, strigoso-hirsute, coloured ; central division bear- 
ing two shortly pedicelled obscure flowers. Calycine 
teeth subulate : tube campanulate, with a line of minute 
hairs in the throat. Petals twice the length of the caly- 
cine teeth, lanceolate, with a toothlet on one side near 
the insertion, tinged with rose-colour, reflected. Stamens 
10: anthers yellow, onc-porcd. Style longer than the 
stamens, thick, acuminate: stigma obtuse. Berry size of 
