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CALYCIFLOR-*. 
at the base, shortly acuminate at the apex, den- 
tate with the teeth irregular and blunt, 5-nerved 
beside the marginal pair, bright green and gla- 
brous above, aibido-velutine beneath, panicle ter- 
minal, flowers numerous shortly pedicelled, calyx 
acutely 5-toothed. 
Acinodendrum Americanum, 5 nervium concantibus 
flosculis, foliis amplissimis glabris, procera parte albican- 
tibus. Pluk. Manx. 4. — Grossulariaj fractu arbor, maxi- 
ma, non spinosa, malabathri folio maxima inodoro. 
Sloane , II. 84 t. 198. — Melastoma a^gentea, Swartz, FI. 
Ind. Ooc. 779 . — Miconia argentea, DC. Prod. III. 182. 
II A B. Portland Woods. Pev. T. Wharton. 
F L. June. 
A tall shrub. Leaves about 18 inches long and 10 
inches broad : petiole about 2 inches in length. Flowers, 
according to Swartz, minute ; with the petals ovate ; and 
the stamens 10, and short. Berry subglobose. 
This species is remarkable for the size of the leaves. 
I regret 1 have not met with it in perfect flower. 
8. Miconia bracteata. Bracteated Miconia. 
Branchlets compressed densely ferrugineo- 
velutine, leaves broad-ovate cordate at the base 
shortly acuminate denticulated with the teeth 
blunt and callous 5-nerved besides a marginal pair 
bright green above incano-tomentose with a fer- 
ruginous tinge beneath, thyrse terminal, bractete 
woolly concave deciduous, stamens 12, berry 12- 
costato G-cellcd. 
II A B. Khuna-khuna road, near Milbank. 
F L. August. 
Leaves about a foot in lenglh, and six inches in breadth, 
transversely veined, wi h the upper surface bright green: 
petiole about 3-inchcs in length, compressed, ferrugineo- 
farinose. Thyrse about a foot in length : peduncle com- 
pressed, somewhat sulcated, incano-tomentose : branches 
subdivided. Flowers shortly pedicelled, clustered at the 
ends of the subdivisions, at lirst concealed in the bractem, 
