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which are deciduous. Bractem, the largest, ovate, acumi- 
nate, about 4 lines in length ; the smaller ones lanceolate. 
Calyx spherical where it adheres to the ovary, externally 
hoary and stellato-tomentulose : tube 6-toothed, inter- 
nally marked with 12 scars indicating the insertion of the 
stamens, and G exterior to them, that of the petals. Pe- 
tals 6, white. Berry when ripe 12-costate, 0 celled, size 
o( a pea: seeds minute, ovoid, slightly cuneale, brown, 
with the surface minutely granular. 
This is a large-leaved rank-looking shrub, delighting in 
damp places. The bractetc are not so regular as to per- 
mit its being placed under Diplociiita. 
Sect. iii. eumicOjYM. 
Calycine tube obovatc or turbinate, not glo- 
bose. Flowers not arranged in a series. 
9. Miconia impetiolaris. Jlpetiolar Miconia . 
Branches panicles and under surface of the 
leaves tomentoso-farinose with the hairs ferru- 
ginous and stellated, leaves sessile scmiamplexi- 
caul oblong narrowing and subcordate at the 
base acuminate subdenticulated 5-nerved besides 
a very obscure marginal pair glabrous above, 
thyrse terminal panicled, flowers sessile, calyx 
obovate with 5 very short teeth. 
Mclastoma impetiolaris, Swartz, FI. Ind. Occ. 788. 
II A B. Port Royal Mountains. Near Bath. The Mo- 
ncague, Dr. Alexander. 
F L. January — May. 
A shrub about 8 feet in height: branches few, subsim- 
ple, tetragonal towards the extremity. Leaves very 
large, about a foot in length, and 5 inches in breadth, 
5 nerved with an indistinct marginal pair. Thyrse termi- 
nal, of nearly the same length as the leaves : branches sub- 
tetragonal, farinoso-tomentulosc, ferruginous : flowers 
small, white, crowded, subsessile. Calyx externally farino- 
so-tomcntulose : tube short, with the throat crimson : teeth 
minute, situated externally below the margin. Petals 
