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CALYCIFLORAJ. 
cumcised, stamens 10, stigma umbilicated, berry 
5-celled. 
IT A B. Near the Moneague.— Dr. Alexander. 
F L. January — March. 
A shrub, about 12 feet in height. Leaves about 8 
inches in length, rounded at the base, attenuated at the 
apex, finely serrated with the teeth setose, 5-nerved be- 
sides a very obscure marginal pair, with the nerves on 
the under surface coloured ; tufts of woolly hairs copious, 
and of a brown colour. Thyrse terminal, rather shorter 
than the leaves ; branches opposite, bifurcating, with the 
subdivisions long, filiform, bearing the small sessile 
flowers in a spike like manner. Alibastrum globose: 
calyx glabrous, urceolatc : teeth 5, minute ; the tubular 
portion circumcised as the fruit ripens ; tube furnished 
internally with a circular projecting membrane for the 
insertion of the petals and stamens. Petals 5, rounded, 
concave, white. Stamens 10, purple: anthers oblong, 
opening by a single pore. Style erect, rather short. 
Berry size of a black pepper, juicy, blackish, 5-celled; 
seeds minute. 
This species comes very near to Miconia congesti- 
flora, a native of the Brazils. 
2. Miconia verticillata. Scarlet-berried Mi- 
conia. 
Branclilcts bisulcated sub-hexangular, leaves 
very shortly pctiolate opposite unequal in size 
lanceolate entire 3-nerved without a marginal 
pair glabrous, inflorescence terminal an inter- 
rupted spike with the flowers sessile crowded 
whorled, berry 5-celled. 
II A B. Damp wooded gullies — Near Moneague, Dr. 
Alexander. 
FL. December — January. 
A shrub about 8 feet in height : branchlets sub-hexan- 
gular, from thin sharp ridges passing down from each 
petiole : when young farinoso-puberulous, afterwards gla- 
brous. Leaves, the larger ones 8, the shorter 5 inches 
in length, thin, membranaceous, glabrous, entire : petiole 
