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A shrub about 8 feet in height : branches ferrugineo- 
tomentose, with a red tinge. Leaves about 4 inches long, 
and rather more than 2 broad, glabrous above, incano- 
tomentose and rufescent along the nerves beneath : peti- 
ole about an inch in length. Thyrse terminal, rather 
longer than the leaves: branches short, subdivided with 
a sessile flower at ihe bifurcation ; the other flowers 
partly sessile and partly subsessile. Peduncle and its 
subdivisions rufescenti-tomentose. Bractcoles minute, 
deciduous. Calyx incano-tomentulose, globose where it 
covers the ovary to which it is only partially adnate : 
teeth 5, obscure, obtuse : throat furnished internally with 
a projecting ledge for the insertion of the petals and sta- 
mens. Petals 5, obtuse, externally incano-tomentulose 
and ciliated, reflected. Stamens 10, purple : filaments, 
toeniaform : anthers one pored. Ovary umbilicated : style 
minutely hispidulous with the hairs directed forwards, 
erect, elongated: stigma depressed. Berry dry, 4- 
celled ? seeds minute, angular. 
6. Miconia data. Large leaved Miconia . 
Branchlets angulato-sulcated ferrugineo-tomen- 
tose, leaves oblong acute serrulato-denticulated 
5-nerved glabrous and of a dull green above fer- 
rugineo-tomentose beneath, flowers decandrous, 
calyx subcampanulate minutely 5-tootlied, stig- 
ma incrassated depressed, berry minute. 
Melastoma, elata, Swartz , FI. lad. Occ. 781. — Miconia 
data, DC. Prod. III. 182. 
II A B. High Mountains. 
F L. ? 
A tree, 30-40 feet in height. Leaves ^-1 foot in length, 
coriaceous : petiole an inch in length. Flowers small, 
white, crowded, sessile. — Swartz. 
7. Miconia argentea. Silvery leaved Miconia . 
Branchlets compressed decidedly 4-sided and 
sulcated rufescenti-farinose, leaves elliptic acute 
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