110 Mr. J. Miers on the Eliretiacege. 



catecl nerves seated in hollow furrows, often leaving the spaces 

 between them very convex ; the petiole is much broader, thicker, 

 and more deeply channelled. The leaves are 3:^-5^ inches long, 

 \\-?>\ inches broad, on a petiole 4-5 lines long. Trew figures 

 separately a leaf from the older lower branches, which is 

 8 inches long and 4^ inches broad. 



It is a tree 20-30 feet high, growing in the more_westerly 

 portions of the island of Jamaica. 



3. Ehretia longifolta^ nob. ; — ramulis tenuibus, angulato- 

 striatis, pulverulento-glaucis ; foliis elongato-oblongis, snb- 

 lanceolatis, lateribus in medio parallele reetis, dehinc utrin- 

 que attenuatis, cum aemnine obtusulo, imo in petiolo de- 

 currentibns, integris, supra glabris, subnitidis, Itete viridibus, 

 nervis tenuissimis, divaricatis, arcnatim nexis, subimmersis, 

 retienlatis, subtus fere concoloribus, sub lente minute sca- 

 bridulis, nervis venisque prominulis, marginibus vix revo- 

 lutis ; petiolo semitereti, subglabro, limbo 20-plo breviore : 

 paniculis terminalibus, racemosis, folio paulo brevioribus ; 

 ramis imo nudiusculis, bracteolatis, alternatim midtidivisis, 

 ramulis tenuibus, compressis, glaucis vel minute strigoso- 

 puberulis ; floribus parvis, albis, suaveolentibus. — In An- 

 tillis et Mexico : v. s. in herh. Hooh.^ Jamaica (Lane), ib. 

 (Maefadyen) ; Oaxaca (Galeotti, 7194). 



A very distinct species : it forms a handsome tree, with 

 leaves 5-6 inches long, lf-2i inches broad, on a petiole 

 3 lines long. 



4. Elwetia eUiptlca^ DC. Prod. ix. 503 ; — ramis teretibus, gla- 

 bris, lenticellatis, ramulis hirtellis ; foliis ellipticis, utrinque 

 obtusis, apice paulo angustioribus et calloso-mucronatisj in- 

 tegris, in junioribus submembranaceis, supra nitentibus, 

 planis, minute tuberculatis et scabrido-pilosis, in vetustiori- 

 bus rigide coriaceis, fuscis, tubereulis nunc valde auctis et 

 subconiluentibus, creberrime albo-rugosis, asperrimis, con- 

 vexiusculis et in nervis valde sulcatis, marginibus subrevo- 

 lutis, subtus brunneis, opacis, subglabris aut obsolete sca- 

 bris, nervis prominentibus, scabridulis, in axillis barbatis 

 petiolo canaliculato, scabrido-piloso, limbo 12-plo breviore 

 paniculis racemosis, terminalibus, ramosis, scabrido-pilosis 

 floribus breviter pedicellatis ; calyce ad basin 5-partito, 

 rigide piloso, lobis acutissimis, erectis, corolla3 tubo ante 

 stamina intus plicato laciniisque oblongis reflexis calycem 

 a^quantibus, filanientis subulatis, medio tubi ad plicaturas 

 geniculatim insertis, longe cxsertis, stylo his [equilongo, 



