200 Mr. J. Miers on the Ehretiacege. 



take, reversed its position, he was quite correct in stating that 

 the embryo is enclosed in a rather thick fleshy albumen, not- 

 withstaudhig that Prof. A. De Candolle mentions that he had 

 been unable to find it. The calyx and corolla resemble those 

 of Crematomia, only that the lobes of the border in Bourreria 

 are simple, not auriculated ; the style is more shortly bifid ; 

 the ovary has the placentation of Rhabdia. 



Bourreria, Browne ,• — Beurreria, Jacq. ; — Ehreti^e sect., DC. 

 — Calyx ad medium tubulosus, coriaceus, superne in lobos 5 

 (rarius 6) acutos divisus, marginibus crassis, tomentosis, 

 testivatione valvatis, firme adha?rentibus, demum solutis, vel 

 interdum false 2-3-lobus, persistens. Corolla gamopetala, 

 tubo calyce paulo longiore, limbi laciniis 5 (rarius 6),oblongis 

 vel rotundatis, patentibus, tubo paulo longioribus, ajstiva- 

 tione valde imbricatis. Stamina 5 (raro 6), alterna, longius- 

 cule exserta aut vix exclusa ; Jilamenta subulata, carnosula, 

 medio tubi vel sub fauce affixa, stepe cum costis totidem 

 decurrentibus continua; antlierm oblongte, 2-loba3, lobis 

 coriaceis, s^pe rugulosis, imo a medio divergentibus, superne 

 collateraliter adnatis, utrinque rima longitudinali nivea late- 

 raliter dehiscentibus, sinu dorsali ad filamentum breviter cur- 

 vatum versatiliter affixa? : i^oUen globosum, tela tartarea in- 

 termixtum. Ovarium oblongum, striatum, disco parvo sn.f- 

 fultum, semiseptis e parietibus 2 oppositis intergerivis, mox 

 in crura magna utrinque divaricatim recmwis, septa 2 pa- 

 rallela subincompleta eftbrmantibus, marginibus oindum 

 singulatim amplectentibus, hinc pseudo-4-loculare, 4-ovu- 

 latum : columella compressa, membranacea, septis parallela, 

 axem sistens et fibros nutritorios intra loculos emittens. Stylus 

 teres, longiuscule exsertus, apice breviter bi- (rarius tri-)fidus, 

 ramis stigmate peltato singulatim clavatis. Drupa carnosa, 

 giobosa, 4-pyrena ; j)yreme intus angulata?, extus convexee, 

 bigeminatim per paria materiel placentari laxe adha^rentes, 

 dorso oblique spongioso-cellulosae et reticulato-favosfe, aliter 

 osseas, 1-loculares, singulatim latere unico (invicem dextro et 

 sinistro) locello spurio infossatas, locido vero circum spurium 

 paulo cm-vato, 1-spermo. Semen loculum implens, cylin- 

 dricum, teres, paulo curvatum, juxta locellum spurium 

 puncto medio appcnsum : integumenta tcnuia, ra^iJie lineari 

 ab hilo ad chalazam basalem descendente notata : emhryo in 

 albumini subamplo carnoso semianatropus et paulo cur- 

 vatus, radicula tereti, supera, cotyledonihus ivquilatis, sub- 

 comprcssis, hilo parallelis, ajquilonga. 



Ar]>ores et arbuscidw ramosi, in America intertrojpicali et in 

 AntiUis indigeni; folia alterna, ohlonga vel ohovata, integra, 



