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CALYCIFLORiE. 
II AB. Limestone districts — Near the Moneaguc, Dr. 
Alexander. 
F L. March. 
A shrub about six feet in height. Leaves, with the 
margin in the young entire, in the older leaves denticul- 
ated, revolute so as to be concave on the under surface, 
to the glass minutely punctulated above, densely rufo- 
lepidose with a silvery glance beneath, 4*5 inches long, 
and rather more than one broad : petiole very short. 
Peduncle and its branches rufo-lepidose. Flowers mi- 
nute, crowded on very short branchlets. Calyx turbinate, 
externally rufo-lepidose, obsoletely 5-toothed. Petals 5. 
Stamens 10: anthers one-pored. Style erect. Fruit — ? 
14. Miconia prasina. Fragrant Miconia. 
Branchlets towards the extremity subtetra- 
gonal and cinereo-farinose, leaves oblongo-lan- 
ceolate acuminate attenuated at the base sub- 
entire or denticulated 3-ply-nerved besides a 
marginal pair glabrous, thyrse terminal panicled, 
branchlets patent, calycine teeth 5 minute, petals 
concave, stamens 10. 
Melas'.oma prasina, Swartz, FI. Ind. Occ. 777 
II A B. Potosi wood, near Bath. Moortown. Damp 
Savannahs. 
F L. January — March. 
A shrub, 4-10 feet in height : branches compressed 
towards the end. Leaves shortly petiolate, G-9 inches in 
length, oblong, of a livid green colour. Panicle much 
branched : branches patulous, subdivided : flowers small, 
white, odorous, subsessile, minutely bracteolated. Calyx 
somewhat campanulate, externally (to the glass) lepidoto- 
punctulated. Petals 5, oblong, concave, most minutely 
ciliated, and at the apex crispid. Stamens longer than 
the petals : anthers linear, minutely biauriculated. 1-pored. 
Ovary spherical : style erect : stigma subcapitate, gluti- 
nose. Berry size of a coriander seed, azure blue, 
glaucescent, 5-celled. 
I am confident that this is the Melastoma trasina of 
Swartz. The principal difference is that the leaves, ac- 
cording to that Author, are very entire, There are cer- 
