202 Mr. J. Miers on the Elirctiacege. 



in the size and shape of its leaves, its inflorescence, and the 

 peculiar form of the style. Jacquin's description embraces 

 more than one species. The Bourreria succidenta^ Grisebach 

 (non Jacq.), Cat. PL Cub. p. 209, refers to two very different 

 plants (both, Wright, 3119), described by him as flowering 

 and fructiferous examjoles of this species : the former is a spe- 

 cies closely allied to Patagonulaj the latter is my Bourreria 

 clariuscula. 



2. Bourreria Domingensis^ nob. (non Griseb.) ; — Ehretia Do- 

 mingensis, D G. Prodr. ix. 508 ; — ramulis subangularibus, 

 striatis, glabris ; foliis oblongis aut oblongo-ellipticis, imo 

 obtuse angustioribus, apice subacutis vel repente obtuse 

 acuminatis, planis vel paulo navicularibus, supra nitidis, 

 nervis tenuibus immersis, reticulatis, utrinque glaberrimis 

 (nisi costa mediana superne sulcata et pilosula), subtus 

 fulvo-glaucis, costa nervisque nitidis, rubescentibus, promi- 

 nulis, in nervo marginali vix revolutis ; petiolo tenui, supra 

 canaliculato, glabro, rubello, margine ciliato, limbo 9-plo 

 breviore : panicula corymbosa, terminali, laxe repetitim ra- 

 mosa, ramis bracteatis, ramulisque angulato-compressis, 

 glabris ; floribus brevissime pedicellatis ; calyce extus glabro, 

 ad medium 5-fido, dentibus acutis, intus pubescentibus ; 

 corollffi tubo calyce vix longiore, laciniis ovatis, extus 

 tomentellis, patentibus ; filamentis tenuibus, sub fauce 

 enatis, cum costis totidcm tubo decurrentibus continuis, ex- 

 sertis ; ovario disco insito, conico-oblongo, striato ; stylo 

 tereti, apice breviter bifido ; drupa globosa, 4-pyrena. — In 

 Antillis : v. s. in herh. Mus. Brit.^ in ins. Carib. (Ryan), 

 (De Pouthieu) ; in herh. Hook.^ St. Vincent (Guilding), 

 Domenico (Imray, 127), Antigua (Nicholson). 



The Bourreria Domingensis of Dr. Grisebach (Fl. Br. W. 

 Ind. p. 482) is evidently a very different species, judging 

 from his short character, in having a cyme terminated with 

 glomerated sericeous flowers, a hoary calyx ; and from his de- 

 scription of the leaves it appears to me to be my Cremafomia 

 (ittenuata ; and this is conflrmed by his citing as an example 

 Dr. Alexander's plant from Albion Pen, in Jamaica, whicli I 

 liave elsewhere described. 



The leaves in this species are 3-4i inches long, Ij-lf inch 

 broad, on a petiole 4-6 (rarely 7) lines long. The panicles are 

 terminal upon the younger ultimate branchlets, about 2 inches 

 long ; and several of these often combine to make a large 

 spreading corymb 5 inches long and broad ; the calyx is 

 3 lines, the tube of the corolla 4 lines long, its lobes 3 lines 

 in diameter; the ovary and fruit in their construction conform 

 Avith the generic character. 



