BORRAGINACE. 
SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. T7 
BOURRERIA. HAVANENSIS. 
Strong Back. 
CaLyx campanulate, usually 5-toothed. 
scabrous. Fruit bright orange-red. 
Bourreria Havanensis, Miers, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 
ser. 4, ili. 207 (1869); Contrib. ii. 238, t. 86. — Gray, 
Syn. Fl. N. Am. ii. pt. i. 181.— Sargent, Forest Trees 
N. Am. 10th Census U. S. ix. 114. — Hitchcock, Rep. 
Leaves coriaceous, glabrous or tuberculate- 
Ehretia Havanensis, Roemer & Schultes, Syst. iv. 805 
(1819). — Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth, Nov. Gen. et 
Spec. vii. 206. — De Candolle, Prodr. ix. 508. 
Bourreria recurva, Miers, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, 
Missouri Bot. Gard. iv. 108.— Engler & Prantl, Pflan- 
zenfam. iv. pt. iii. 87, f. 35, E. 
Ehretia Bourreria, Linnzus, Spec. ed. 2, 275 (in part) 
(1762). — Willdenow, Spec. i. pt. ii. 1078 (in part). — 
Desfontaines, Ann. Mus. i. 279. — Chapman, 77. 329. 
ii. 203 (1869) ; Contrib. ii. 234. 
Bourreria ovata, Miers, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, 
i. 203 (1869) ; Contrid. ii. 234. 
Bourreria tomentosa, y Havanensis, Grisebach, /7. 
Brit. W. Ind. 482 (1864) ; Cat. Pl. Cub. 209. 
A bushy tree, in Florida occasionally forty-five feet in height, with a buttressed and often fluted 
trunk eight or ten inches in diameter, and slender terete branchlets; usually much smaller, and often a 
shrub with numerous spreading stems. The bark of the trunk varies from a sixteenth to an eighth of an 
inch in thickness and is light brown tinged with red, more or less fissured, and divided on the surface 
into thick plate-like irregular scales. The branches, when they first appear, are light red and pilose 
with pale hairs which soon disappear; and in their first winter they are covered with thin dark red, 
orange-colored, or ashy gray bark which is sometimes roughened with pale lenticels and often sepa- 
rates in delicate scales. The leaves are obovate-oblong or ovate, acute, rounded, apiculate or emarginate 
at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, and entire with thickened revolute margins; they are covered, 
when they unfold, with soft pale caducous hairs, and at maturity are thick, coriaceous, conspicuously 
reticulate-venulose, dark green and glabrous, or in one form?’ tuberculate-scabrous or hispidulous on 
the upper surface, pale yellow-green and glabrous or pubescent on the lower surface, two to three and 
a half inches long and an inch to an inch and a half wide, with broad orange-colored midribs deeply 
unpressed on the upper side, and thin arcuate veins; they are borne on slender rigid grooved petioles 
three quarters of an inch to an inch in length, and, unfolding in Florida in April and May, usually 
remain on the branches through their second summer. The flowers, which open in the spring and late 
in the autumn, are produced in open terminal cymes three or four inches across with slender glabrous 
branches, and are borne on pedicels half an inch long and furnished near the middle with a scarious 
bractlet an eighth of an inch in length and, like the small bracts, caducous from a persistent base. 
The calyx before opening forms an ovate pointed glabrous or puberulous bud, and after anthesis is 
campanulate and five-toothed, with acute teeth ciliate on the margins. The corolla is subcampanulate 
and creamy white, with a short tube somewhat enlarged in the throat, and broad ovate spreading lobes 
three quarters of an inch across when expanded. The stamens, which are inserted near the middle of the 
tube of the corolla and are exserted, are composed of slender filaments and of ovate rugulose apiculate 
anthers. The ovary is conical and glabrous, and is gradually contracted into a slender exserted style 
1 Bourreria Havanensis, var. radula, Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. ii. 
pt. i. 181 (1878). — Sargent, Forest Trees N. Am. 10th Census U.S. 
ix. 114. 
Bourreria radula, Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 390 (1836). — Chamisso, 
Linnea, viii. 120. — Miers, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, iii. 
205 ; Contrib. ii. 237. 
Ehretia radula, Poiret, Lam. Dict. Suppl. ii. 2 (1811). — Die- 
trich, Syn. i. 630. — De Candolle, Prodr. ix. 506. — Chapman, Fi. 
329. 
Cordia Floridana, Nuttall, Sylva, iii. 83, t. 107 (1849). 
Bourreria virgata, Grisebach, Mem. Am. Acad. n. ser. viii. 528 
(Pl. Wright. pt. i.) (1862) ; Cat. Pl. Cub. 209. | 
