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rnitc stellated pubescence interspersed, 6-(12?) celled: 
seeds numerous, minute, ovoid. 
I he fruit oi this species has a sweet insipid mawkish 
flavour. The plant itself is rather showy. Jt grows 
every where, in the interior of the Island. 
2. Heterotriclium dubium. Doubtful Hete~ 
rotrichum. 
Branches petioles peduncles and the under 
surface of the leaves ferrugineo-hirsute with a 
stellated woolly pubescence intermixed, leaves 
ovate acuminate sub-cordate ciliato-denticulated 
5-nerveu besides an obscure marginal pair, 
densely hirsute of a bright green above, albido- 
velutinc beneath, thyrse terminal congested, 
flowers sessile, calycine lobes 5 elongated fili- 
form hirsute, stamens 10. 
II A B- Near the Moneague, Dr. Alexander. 
PL. End of the year. January. 
A shrub, a few feet in height : branches sub-terete. 
Leaves 3-4 inches in length and about 2-broad : petiole 
one third of an inch in length. Thyrse short, scarcely 
more than an inch in length : branches opposite, very 
short, hearing several sessile hairy flowers crowded at 
the end. A pair of minute laciniated bractcoles below 
each flower. Calyx pilose, with the hairs long, purpura- 
scent, capitate : lobes 5, filiform, elongated, hairy. Petals 
oblong, of the same length as the lobes of the calyx. Sta- 
mens 10. Ovary umbilicated, crowned with a circle of 
minute pedicelled glandules ? style erect : stigma obtuse. 
Capsule berried, 5 celled: seeds very minute. 
3. Heterotriclium viscosum. Viscid Hetero- 
trichum. 
Branches petioles peduncles and the under 
surface of the leaves incano-tomentose with 
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