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leaves is very remarkable, and for a time puzzled me 
much. Were it not for several discrepancies, it might be 
referred to the succeeding Genus. 
3. Hai rera trinervis. Three-nerved Harrera. 
A shrub, branches at the end compressed and 
slightly sulcated, as also the under surface ol the 
leaves the peduncles and petioles albido-rufescent 
and stellato-toment ulose, h aves ovato-lanceolate 
rounded at the base sub-entire, calyx globose 
where it adheres to the ovary 4-toothed, stamens 
8, berry 3-cclled. 
II AB. Near Green Valley, Port Royal. 
F L. August. 
A shrub 5-10 feet in height; branches erect, com- 
pressed, towards the extremity slightly sulcated on the 
flattened sides, and minutely and densely stellato-puberu- 
lous. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovato-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, rounded at the base, sub entire, 3-nerved beside the 
marginal pair, above apparently glabrous, tut to the glass 
minutely stellato puberulous, beneath incano-fen uginous, 
and farinoso-tomentulose with a minute stellated pub- 
escence: petiole stcllato-tomentulose. Panicle terminal 
of comparatively few flowers, shorter than the leaves : 
branches decussating. Flowers white, shortly pcdicelled. 
Calyx globose whee it covers the ovary : the tube 8- 
agonal, stellato-puberulous: limb spreading, with 4 subu- 
late teeth inserted below the edge of the limb. Petals 
4. Stamens 8 : filaments kneed : anthers yellow, 1- 
pored. Style longer than the petals; stigma simple. 
Berry purple, 3-cel!ed : seeds wedge-shaped. 
IX. Heterotkichum. 
Calycine tube ovato-globose ; limb 5-8-fid, with 
the lobes subulate, elongated, persistent, broadly 
dilated at the base. Petals 5-8, oval. Stamens 
10-16, equal: filaments glabrous; anthers oblong 
scarcely gibbous, bi-porose at the apex. Ovary 
glabrous at the apex, umbilicated : style cylin- 
