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rugineous and glabrous, leaves oblong subcordate 
acute at the apex with the margin subrevolute 
very entire 3-nerved glabrous above scurfy with 
a minute pubescence beneath, thyrse terminal, 
panicled many-flowered. 
Melastoma tetrandra, Swartz , FI. Ind. Occ. 795 — M. 
tctrandrum, Spreng. Syst. 11. 305. — Tetrazygia tetrandra 
DC. Prod. 111. 172. 
II A B. Summit of the Blue Mountain range. 
F L. May. 
A shrubby tree about 12 feet in height, with spreading 
branches. Leaves 3-4 inches in length, subcoriaceous : 
petioles long. Thyrse terminal: divisions ferrugineo- 
farinose : flowers small, white, crowded, subsessile. 
Calyx minute, 4-teethed. Petals 4, very small, ovate, 
concave, deciduous. Filaments 4, erect, about the length 
of the petals. Ovary glabrous : style subulate : stigma 
acute. Berry small. 
2. Tetrazygia Fadyeni. 
Branches compressed purpurascent glabrous, 
’eaves oval (in some specimens approaching to 
lanceolate) entire and slightly revolute at the mar- 
gin 3-ply-nerved glabrous, paler and minutely 
punctulated beneath, panicle cymose terminal 
longer than the leaves, calyx urceolate edentu- 
lous, petals 4 oblong, stamens 8, ovary 2-celled. 
Hooker , Sot. Journal, for December, 1849. 
II A B. lload from Lluida’s to St. Thomas in the Y r ale, 
— Mount Diablo, Dr. M’Nab. — Rocks in the Pedro dis- 
trict, St. Ann’s, M>. Pur die. — Albion Pen, and Friend- 
ship, St. Ann’s, Dr. Alexander. 
F L. July. 
A shrub about G feet in height, branching from the 
root ; branches opposite, decussating, compressed towards 
the end and purpurascent. Leaves opposite, petiolate, 
elliptic, in some plants approaching to lanceolate, in 
others broad oval, obtuse, sub-entire with the margin 
slightly revolute, 3-ply-nerved with a pair of obscure 
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