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together, rather more than an inch in length : flowers 
small, shortly pediceHed : pedicels capillary, jointed and 
bibracteolated near the flower. Calyx obscurely 5-lobed. 
Petals 5, obtuse. Style elongated : stigma obtuse. 
XIII. Miconia. 
Calycine tube adhering to the ovary : limb 
short, persistent, 5-toothed, with the teeth obtuse, 
augmented on the inner surface with a broad 
membrane^ frequently after expansion adpresso- 
connivent over the ovary. Petals 5, obo- 
vate, obtuse. Stamens 10 : anthers oblongo- 
linear, shortly and obtusely auriculated at the 
base. Ovary somewhat umbilicated and very 
glabrous at the apex: style filiform: stigma 
obtuse. Capsule berried, 5-celled : seeds 3-sided, 
with a black linear hilum. —DC. 
Named in honor of D. Micon, M. D., a Spanish Botanist. 
Sect. i. leiosphjerji. 
Calyx and fruit very glabrous. Flowers 
crowded and uniserial along the branches of a 
terminal thyrse. Leaves 3-nerved, usually cili- 
ated, 
1. Miconia circumsecta. Sessile-Jloivcred 
Miconia. 
Branches tetragonal as also the panicles and 
petioles glabrous, leaves lanceolate attenuated 
at the apex minutely ciliato-serrulated 5-nerved 
with the lateral pair less distinct glabrous 
with exception of a nidiform tuft of brown 
hairs in the axils of the central nerves on the 
under surface, branches of the thyrse filiform 
bifurcating, flowers small, calyx minutely 5- 
toothed, with the tube after flowering cir- 
