Mr. J. Micrs on the E]n-ctlacca\ 201 



petiolata: panicultii corymhosa'^ fcrniiiidhsj dichotome, ra- 

 mosd'; riores mediuO'eSj atbiih' : (h\\\)ydaarantiac(evel ruhrce^ 

 nitidce. 



1. Bourreria (Beurreria) succulenfa, Jacq. Amer. 44; Obs. 2, 

 tab. 26; Gaertn. iii. 170, tab. 212 (non Gviseb.) ;— Boun-evia 

 arborea, Browne, Jam. 168, tab. 15. fig. 2 ; Ehretia Bom*- 

 rcria, Linn. Si/sf. iii. 936; Lam. Diet. i. 527; DC. Prodr. 

 ix. 506 ; — Corclia BouiTcria, Linn. Aman. v. 395 ; — Jasmi- 

 num periclynicnitbliinn, S/oane, Jaw. ii. 96, tab. 204. fig. 1 ; 

 Bai/, Dendr. 63 ; — raiiiiilis teretibus, subangulatis, tenui- 

 bus, glabris ; foliis obovato-oblongis aut ovatis, imo cimeatis, 

 apicc rotundatis vel obtusis, glabris, supra nitidis, ad nervos 

 sulcatis, subtus pallidioribus, fiavidiiiscidis, nervis paulo 

 prominulis, inargine siibundulatis ; petiole canaliculato, 

 limbo 8-l()-plo breviore : racemis apud ramid(« ultimos 

 novellos paucifoliosos terniinalibns, brevibus, foliis delapsis 

 deinde corymbum laxiusciilum raeutientibus, bracliiis coni- 

 pressis, glabris ; caljce tubuloso, crasso, glabemmo, acute 

 semi-5-fido, dentibus margine tomentosis ; corolla3 tubo ca- 

 lyce paulo longiore, limbi lobis oblongis, expansis ; stami- 

 nibus paulo exsertis ; cb'upa globosa, carnosa, crocca, piso 

 majorc, 4-pyreua. — In xVntillis : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit., 

 Jamaica (specim. typ. in lib. Sloan, vol. vii. fol. 36, planta 

 superior); Jamaica (Dr. Wright). 



Many plants have been confounded with this species, the 

 t}^)e of which exists in Sloane's herbarium ; and, as no doubt 

 can be raised concerning it, I have reformed its specific cha- 

 racter from the original. It is described by Sloane and BroAvne 

 as a tree from 14 to 20 feet high, growing in the lowlands of 

 Jamaica. The leaves are 2^ inches long, 1^ inch broad, on a 

 petiole 3-4 lines long ; the racemes, terminal on the young 

 branches, seldom exceed an inch in length ; but as the leaves 

 fall off, the inflorescence assumes the appearance of a more 

 extended irregular corymb ; the flowers are white, upon very 

 short pedicels ; the calyx is fleshy, 3 lines long, glabrous out- 

 side, pubescent within the teeth, Avhich are tomentose on the 

 margins ; the tube of the corolla is 5 lines long, the lobes of 

 the border 3 lines long ; the subulate filaments are inserted 

 above the base of the tube and extend beyond its mouth, the 

 anthers are versatile, attached in the sinus of their divergent 

 base. The placentation of the ovary and the structure of the 

 fruit accord with the above generic character ; the drupes, of 

 a safiron-colom', ai*e 3 lines in diameter. 



The plant described by Desfontaines under the name of 

 Ehretia Bourreria corresponds with my B. recurra, agreeing 



