108 Mr. J. MIers o)i the EhretlaceiP. 



nectivo aclnatis, membraiiaceis, rima longitudinall latevallter 

 dehiscentibus. Ovarium conico-oblongum, disco parvo in- 

 situm ; semisejjtis 2, parletalilbus, oppositis, utrinque bila- 

 mellatim reflexis, marginibus ovuliim amplectentibus 5 co- 

 lumna centralis, transversim compressa, sublibera, lamellis 

 parallela, axi vacua, vasa nutritoria intra pseiido-locellos 

 emittens ; inde pseudo-4-locnlare, ovulis totidem summiim 

 versus appensis. Stylus erectus, exsertus, apice breviter 

 aut minime bifidus, stigmatihus 2 parvulis subclavatis 

 terminatus. Driqja globosa, subcarnosa, calyce persistente 

 circumdata, 2-pyrena, iiyrenis 2-locularibus, osseis, extus 

 convexis, intus concavis, hinc sub apice \?A:^r\\s\x^ for amine 

 parvo loculum ingrediente utrinque perforatis, loculis 1-sper- 

 mis. Semen teres, in quoque loculo e foramine appensum ; 

 integumenta tenuissima, papyracea; embryo in albuniine 

 parco rectus, teres, radicula supera. 

 Arbusculffi {rarius arbores) NeogeWj2)le7mmqueMexicanai ; fplia 

 alterna^ ohlonga^ Integra vel serrafa, glabra aut tuherculafo- 

 scabrida, j^^^^iolata : paniculfe corymboswj multiramosce^ ter- 

 minales : flores ^^arv?', albidi. 



1. Ehretia tinifolia, Linn. Anioen. v. 595, Sjst. 192, p. 906, 

 i. 309 ; Jacq. Amer. 45 ; Sw. Obs. 87 ; Willd. Sp. i. 1077 ; 

 DeCand, Prodr. ix. 503 ; — Ehretia arborea, P. Br. Jam. 

 168, tab. 16. fig. 1 ; — Ceraso affinis {in parte), Sloane, 

 Jam. ii. 94 {nee icone ibi referta) ; — ramulis tenuibus, te- 

 retibus, glabris ; foliis ovato-ellipticis aut oblongis, utrin- 

 que sensim angustatis, subacutis, aut obtusule acurainatis, 

 imo obtusis, planis, glaberrimis, supra subnitidis, planis, 

 reticulatim nervosis, submcmbranaceis aut crassioribus, 

 subtus pallidioribus, nervis tenuibus paulo proniinulis, in 

 ramis infimis niulto majoribus et semper planis ; petiolo 

 subtcnui, sulcato, glabro, limbo 14-plo breviore: panicula 

 terminali, ramosa, multidivisa, ramulis tenerrimis, compressis, 

 glabris, saspe laxe expansis ; lloribus parvis, albidis. — In 

 Antillis : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit., Jamaica (Sloan, lib. vol. vii. 

 fol. 6 cum icone ex vivo, specim. tjp.); Jamaica (P. Browne) j 

 ib. (Shakespcar) ; Cuba (Linden, 1983) ; in herb. Iloolr., 

 Cuba (Wright, 1360, 1366). 



All botanists have referred to Sloane as the earliest au- 

 thority for this species, and the typical plant in his herba- 

 rium confirms this ; but they have all overlooked the fact 

 tliat Sloane collected two species, Avhich are still preserved, 

 one in fol. 5, tlic other in fol. 6, of his herbarium : the latter is 

 accompanied by his own coloured draAving, taken " ex vivo," 



