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OALYCI FLORAE. 
incano-rufescent and woolly beneath, flowers 
sessile unilateral. 
Melastomu albicans, Swartz, FI. lad. Occ. 786 — M. 
holosericea, Linn. Sp. 556 — Miconia holosericea, DC. 
Vrod. 111. 181. 
II A B. St. Thomas in the Yale. 
F. L. February. 
Stem 10-12 feet in height: branches free of hairiness. 
Leaves 4|-5 inches long, and about 2 broad ; the under 
surface of the nerves rufescent: petiole about half an 
inch in length. Thyrse terminal, longer than the leaves : 
branches patulous; branchlets bifurcated, with the sub- 
divisions about an inch in length, somewhat recurved. 
Peduncle and its subdivisions subtetragonal, incano- 
rufescent: branchlets aureo-rufescent, subglabrous. furn- 
ished at the subdivisions with a pair of oblong rufescent 
appressed bracteae. Flowers numerous, crowded, sessile, 
secund, white. Calyx externally tomentose and rufe- 
scent, 5-dentate with the teeth small, Petals oblong, 
rounded at the apex, reflected. Stamens 10: anthers 
biauriculated at the base, one-pored. Style declinate, 
thick towards the stigma which is umbilicated. Berry 
small, subrotund, 3-4-celled, violaceous : seeds cuneato- 
trihedrcus, 
5. Miconia rufescens. Rufescent Miconia. 
Branchlets compressed rufescent, leaves broad- 
ovate shortly acuminate rounded and subcord ate 
at the base denticulated 5-nerved sub-glabrous 
above incano-tomentose and rufescent especially 
along the nerves beneath, panicle erect length 
of the leaves with the branches short, flowers 
subsessile, calyx obscurely 5-toothed with the 
teeth obtuse, ovary free and produced at the 
apex, style elongated and minutely hispidulous. 
HAB. Limestone districts, in thickets. Near Mo- 
neague, Dr. Alexander . 
F L. December — March. 
