484 BORAGINEJE. 



Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., Al., Wullschl. (a) ; Antigua !, Wullschl. (a), Montserrat !, West 

 (7), Domiaica !, Imr. {$), Barbadoes ; Trinidad !, Sieb., Cr. (a) ; [Cuba 1 and Mexico ! to 

 Brazil !]. 



35. T. staminea, Gr. (». sp.). Leaves glabrous or dotted with prominulous points, 

 leathery, elliptical-oblong or elliptical-lanceolate, with a bluntish point, tapering into tbe 

 petiole: primary veins b-7-jugal ; spikes long, recurved, 2-4-fid ; corolla-tube slightly 

 puberulous or glabresceut, clavate-cylindrical, thrice as long as the calyx : lobes roundish, 

 blunt; anthers oblong, with their point exserted ; drupe ovate-globose, contracted at the 

 suture, glabrous — A shrub, distinguished by the longer anthers and larger drupes, while in 

 all the foregoing Pittonim the anthers are roundish, and deeply included ; leaves 6"-4", 

 spike-divisions 6"-2" long; calyx segments deltoid, glabrescent ; corolla-tube 2'" long ; 

 anthers 1'" long, snbsessile, inserted into the middle of the tube ; drupe 2%'" long. — Hab. 

 Jamaica !, Pd., Al., March, in the mountains, Dolphin's peak ; [Haiti !]. 



Sect. 3. Messerschmiiha, Kth. (non L., non A. DC). — Drupe 4{-\)-pyrenous, divided 

 into as many lobes as there are \-seeded pyrenm. Embryo curved. — Anthers counivent, 

 with their points cohering ; drupes shortly pedicellate, distant. 



In all our species there occur monstrous, tomentose drupes, even in species of which 

 th;.' normal ones are glabrous : a similar monstrosity (figured in Miq. Surin. t. 41) has led 

 Miquel to consider his T. syringifolia and T. laurifolia to be Pittonice : the former, though 

 unknown to me, from its pedicellate drupes, is a Messersckmidia, distinguished only by 

 minute characters from T. laurifolia. 



36. T. laurifolia, Vent. Leaves glabrous or glabrescent, at length dotted with 

 roughish points beneath, ovate or elliptical, pointed, petioled ; spikes diverging, corymbose; 

 corolla-tube slender, puberulous or pubescent, 4-3 (-6) times as long as the calyx : lobes 

 subulate : anthers oblong, with their connivent points exserted, inserted below the corolla- 

 throat ; drupe 2-4(-l)-lobcd, glabrous.— Vent. Choix, 1.2. — T. syringifolia, V. in PI. 

 Ryan .', Better.! {non Miq). T. Sagncana and surinamensis, A. DC. — A twining herb, 

 variable in the down, the size of the calyx, its segments ovate or lanceolate, and tbe breadth 

 of the subulate corolla-lobes ; leaves 3"-l", corolla-tube 2"'-3'" long : lobes one-third to 

 one-fourth as long as the tube.— Hab. Jamaica!, AL, March; Trinidad!, Cr.,Lockh.; 

 [Cuba ! and Panama ! to cquat. Brazil ! and Guiana !]. 



37. T. volubilis, L. Leaves hispidulous (or glabrate) above, glabrate or puberulous 

 beneath, ovate or oblong, petioled; spikes slender, corymbose; corolla-tube puberulous, 

 thrice as long as the calyx, nearly as long as the linear-filiform lobes ; anthers ovate, 

 pointleted, included, inserted below the corolla-throat ; drupes 4(-2)-globose, glabrous. — 

 HI. t. 143./. 2. — A twining, variable shrub; leaves 3"-l" (-§"), corolla-tube 1"' long. 



a. Leaves 3"-l" long, pointed. — T. punctata, Spreng. {ex Sieb. Mart. G3 !). 



&. microphylla, Desv. Leaves small, l"--6'" (-4'") long, blunt. 



Hab. Bahamas!, Swains., Jamaica!, Pd., Al. (a); Antigua!, Wullschl. (j3), S. Lucia!, 

 S. Vincent!, Guild., Barbadoes !, Lane ; [S.Thomas! to French islands!; Venezuela! to 

 Brazil !]. 



38. T. caribeea, Gr. Leaves hispidulous on both sides, ovate-oblong or ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate or pointleted, petioled ; spikes slender, corymbose ; corolla-tube pu- 

 bescent, thrice as long as the calyx, nearly twice as long as the linear-filiform lobes; 

 anthers ovate, pointleted, included, inserted below the corolla-throat ; drupe 4 (-2) -globose, 

 strigose : calyx excrescent. — T. psilostacbya 0, DC. {exclus. synon.) -. the allied * psilo- 

 stachya, Kth. {T. strigosa, Anders.!) has glabrous drupes. — A twiuiug shrub; leave9 

 4"-lV, corolla-tube 1"' long.— Hab. Dominica!, Imr.; Trinidad!, Sieb. Tr. 243. 



39. T. ferruginea, Lam. Leaves hispidulous or pubescent on both sides, or glabrate 

 above, ovate-lanceolate, ovate or oblong, pointed, petioled ; spikes slender, corymbose ; 

 corolla-tube pubescent, about twice as long as the calyx and as the linear-filiform lobes ; 

 anthers ovate-oblong, pointleted, included, inserted below the corolla-throat ; drupe 4(-l)- 

 globose, glabrous. — T. microphylla, Berter. ! T. volubilis 0, y, DC. T. inembranacea, 

 DC. {ex specim. Gardner). — A scandent, variable shrub, with pubescent branchlets ; leaves 

 l"-3£", corolla-tube 1$"' long.— Hab. Jamaica!, Al., March, Wullschl.; [Cuba I and 

 Mexico 1 to Brazil !]. 



