206 Mr. J. Miers on the Eliretiaceas. 



m he7'b. Mus. Brit., loc. ignoto (Aublet) 5 m herb. Hook., 

 Havana (Greene), Cuba (Dnimmoncl), Key West (anon.). 



A distinct species, different from the Bourreria radula of 

 Chamisso, which is B. tomentosa. It is easily distinguished 

 by its small coriaceous leaves, scabrid on both sides, and 

 closely punctulated above with large white raised tubercles. 

 Its leaves are 1-2 inches long, 6-9 lines broad, on a petiole 

 1-2 lines long. 



This species is confounded by Dr. Grisebach (Flor. Br. W. 

 Ind. p. 482) with the Ehretia Havanensis, Willd., which he 

 makes a variety of Bourreria tomentosa. 



9. Bourreria tomentosa, Don, Diet. iv. 390 ; — Ehretia tomen- 

 tosa. Lam. {non HBK.) III. i. p. 425. n. 1919 ; Poir. Diet. 

 8u])2J.\\.\', DC. Prodr. ix. 507; — Ehretia radula, Cham, 

 {non Poir.) Linn. viii. 120 ; — Jasminum periclymenifolium 

 in parte, Shane, Jam. ii. 96 ; — ramis striatis, ramulis bre- 

 vibus, cinereo- vel brunneo-subvelutinis ; foliis oblongis vel 

 ellipticis, apice obtusis vel rotundiusculis, imo obtuse at- 

 tenuatis, subcoriaceis, supra pallide viridibus, crebre scabri- 

 dulis, seepe in nervis tomentellis, subtus pallidioribus, velu- 

 tino-tomentellis, nervis pubescentibus, marginibus paulo 

 revolutis ; petiolo pubescente, limbo 5-plo breviore : pani- 

 culis in ramulis terminalibus,brevibus,paucifloris,tomentosis, 

 ramis compressis ; calyce 5-dentato, submembranaceo, extus 

 velutino, intus puberulo ; corollse tubo calyce duplo longiore, 

 lobisque ovatis utrinque sparse puberulis ; staminibus medio 

 tubi insertis, exsertis ; stylo apice bifido ; drupa globosa, 

 piso majore, 4-pyrena, pyrenis generis. — In Antillis : v. s. 

 in herb. Mus. Bi'it., Jamaica (in lib. Sloan, vol. vii. folio 36, 

 planta inferior), loc. ignot (Aublet), Cuba (Wright, 3121 in 

 parte) ; in herb. Hook., Jamaica (March). 



Sloane probably regarded this plant as a variety of his 

 typical species, as it is fixed on the same sheet, without any 

 remark. Lamarck, in his ' Illustrations,' established the species 

 upon a plant which he recognized as being similar to it. 

 Poii'et quotes Lamarck's type as his authority, confounding it 

 with Sloane's first type : hence the confusion to which De- 

 Candolle alludes. The species is sufficiently distinct. The 

 leaves are 1^-1 1 inch long, 6-10 lines broad, on a petiole 

 3-4 lines long. In Aublet's plant they are more scabrid, the 

 hairs rising out of minute white tubercles ; the calyx is 2^ lines 

 long, the tube of the corolla 3 lines, the lobes 2^ lines long. 

 Wright's plant above mentioned was considered identical with 

 another under the same number by Dr. Grisebach ; the latter 



