Mr. J. ]Miers on the Ehretlaceffi. 109 



in fruit ; but the plant corresponding with it is in flower. 

 When ISIoane published his work, he gave a figure in pi. 203. 

 fig. 1, which is an exact tracing from his first specimen; but 

 he added to it the fructiferous raceme, copied from his drawing, 

 which does not exist in the specimen. It is evident, however, 

 that his description in vol. ii. p. 94 does not refer to the first, 

 but to the second specimen, with cerasiform leaves, and named 

 bj him " Ceraso qffim's; " for the dimensions he gives of the 

 leaves of this ^'Bastard Cherry''^ are 2^ inches long, 1 inch 

 broad, which agree with the second plant, but not at all with 

 the first. P. Browne's description and drawing of this same 

 species, above quoted, conforms in the size and shape of the 

 leaves with Sloane's second plant ; and it is manifest that 

 LinnjBus's Ehretia tinifolia is identical with the same form, as 

 he quotes Browne as his authority. Jacquin and Swartz 

 must have had the same plant in view when they gave 

 more copious characters to the species. We have thus the 

 true E. tinifolia identified in an unmistakable manner. 



It is described as a tree 16 to 20 feet high, growing com- 

 monly in the lowlands of the eastern portion of Jamaica ; its 

 leaves are 2^-Og- inches long, 1-1| inch broad, on a somewhat 

 slender petiole 2-3 lines long. In Linden's plant the leaves 

 are thin in texture, in Wright's they are thicker in substance. 

 The terminal panicle is 1^-2 inches long. 



2. Eliretia sulcata, nob.; — Ceraso affinis, Shane {in jKtrfe), 

 Jam. ii. tab. 203. fig.l {no7i descrijjt.) ; Trew, Ehr. t. 25 ; — 

 ramulis crassioribus, teretibus, striatis, rubescentibus, gla- 

 bris ; foliis oblongis aut ovato-oblongis, apice sensim an- 

 gustioribus, obtusule acuminatis vel obtusis, canaliculatim 

 recurvulis, imo rotundiusculis aut valde obtusis, in pctiolo 

 brevissime decurrentibus, ubique glaberrimis, coriaceis, su- 

 pra pallide viridibus, ad costam latam nervosque rubellos 

 riavidosve sulcatis, in vetustioribus valleculatis, interspatiis 

 tunc plus minusve convexis, marginibus integris vix revo- 

 lutis, subtus concoloribus, nervis promincntibus ; petiolo 

 lato, crassiusculo, supra valde sulcato, glabro, limbo 12-plo 

 breviore : panicula corymbosa, tcrminali, ramosissima, ramis 

 tenuibus, compressis, glabris. — In Antillis : r. s. in J/crb. 

 Mas. Brit., Jamaica (in lib. Sloan, vol. vii. fol. 5) ; in Iiort. 

 Keic. cult., Jamaica (Houston) ; in herh. Hooh., Jamaica 

 (Purdie), Cuba (LaSagra), ib. Havana (Greene). 



In describing the preceding species, I have explained how 

 this has been confounded with it. Its leaves are much larger, 

 more coriaceous, broader, more rounded at base, have a much 

 broader and reddish midrib, more distant and much more divari- 



