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Leaves about 8 inches Ion*; and 2 broad, with the mar- 
ginal nerves so close to the edge as to be obscure. Flow- 
ers minute, white, subsessile, crowded, minutely bracteo- 
lated. Calyx externally farinose, minutely 5-toothed with a 
gland-like apicula on the bark of each tooth. Petals 5, 
obtuse. Stamens 10: filaments capillary : anthers one- 
pored. Style erect, longer than the stamens : stigma 
subcapitate, depressed. Berry black, 5 -celled : seeds 
wedge-shaped, angular. 
12. Miconia glabra. Glabrous Miconia. 
Branchlets compressed slightly puberulous, 
leaves lanceolate with the apex obtuse, attenuated 
at the base so as to be decurrent, 3-ply-nerved 
without a prominent pair of marginal nerves en- 
tire, thyrse terminal, flowers crowded subsessile 
minutely bibracteolated, calyx obsoletely and 
obtusely 5-fid, petals 5, stigma incrassated to- 
wards the stigma which is depressed, berry i (?)- 
celled. 
II A B. St. Ann. 
F L. January. 
A shrub. Leaves very shortly petiolate, glabrous, 3 
inches long and one broad. Peduncle and its divisions 
tomcntulose. Calyx very small, turbinate. Petals im- 
bricating, rounded at the apex. Stamens longer than 
the petals : anthers linear, 1-pored. Berry small, size 
of a coriander seed, 4-celled : seeds angular. 
13. Miconia discolor. Discoloured Miconia. 
Branchlets compressed ash-colourcd with a 
russet tinge minutely Iepidose, leaves unequal in 
size lanceolate attenuated at the apex entire gla- 
brous above, argenteo-lepidose with a rufous tinge 
beneath, 3-nerved with a very obscure marginal 
pair, thyrse terminal, flowers minute subsessile 
crowded in clusters, calyx externally rufo-lepi- 
dose, petals ovate acute, stigma subcapitate re- 
fuse. 
