M BLAST OMACE/E. 
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18. Mieonia palustris. Marsh Miconia. 
Branchlets subterete slightly channelled gla- 
brous, leaves lanceolate entire glabrous 3-ply- 
nerved without a marginal pair, petiole winged 
with the decurrent leaf, panicle terminal with the 
peduncle cinereo-pruinose, calyx minutely 5- 
tcothed incano-pruinose, stigma excavated. 
II A B. Marsh near Crosmond, St. Elizabeth’s Dr. 
AlacNab. Marsh near Moneague, Dr. Alexander. 
F h. March. 
Leaves about 4 inches in length and one in breadth, une- 
qual at the base, subsessile. Divisions of the peduncle 
tetragonal : branches very patent, brachiate : flowers 
small, subsessile, clustered, braeteolutei. Petals 5, 
rounded at the apex. Stamens JO: filaments capillary: 
anthers minutely biauriculated at the base, 1-pored. 
Stvle erect. Berry black, size of a coriander seed, 5- 
celled : seeds wedge-shaped 
The leaves are plane, and have a greasy feel and ap- 
pearance, and resemble those of the Bucida Buceras. 
19. Miconia microcarpa. Small-fruited Mi- 
conia. 
Branchlets tetragonal pale-ferruginco-velutine, 
leaves broad-'anceolate subacuminate slightly 
attenuated at the base subrepando-denticulated 
subglabrous 5-nerved, thyrse terminal much 
branched, limb of the calyx short truncated, fruit 
obscurely 10-ribbed. 
Melastoma laevigata, Aubl. Guinn. 412. t. 159. — Mico- 
nia microcarpa, DC. Prod. III. 1S9. 
II A B. Moneague, Dr. Alexander. 
F L. March. 
Leaves shortly petiolated, with minute scattered 
stellated hairs above, paler and subglabrous beneath. 
