302 Mr. J. Miers on the Ehretiacese. 



Drupa majuscula, globosa, calyce persistente suffulta : peri- 

 carpium crasse coriaceum, utrinque nitens, maturitate deci- 

 duum ; mesocarpium parcum, subcarnosum : cremocarpiiiin 

 persistens, sub-4-gonum, in aclienia 4 primum bigemina, 

 demum omnino solubile ; aclienia ventre angulata, extus 

 subplana aut paulo convexa, lateribus subalata, endocarpio 

 dorsali amplo, spongioso-reticulato, e cellulis plurimis va- 

 cuis elongatis radiatim centrifugis conflato, angulo ventrali 

 1-locularia, 1-sperma, loculis oblongis, subosseis, indeliis- 

 centibus, latere unico summum versus foramine parvo (intra 

 canalem angustum vasiferum ebasi adscendentem) perforatis: 

 columella centralis, principio ad basin bipartita, mox iterum 

 fissa in carpopliora 4 rigida tenuia erecta ad summum 

 adscendentia ; base subito reflexa, chordas filiformes liberas 

 ad aclienia infra medium affixas simulant, et hoc modo 

 aclienia libera in acre suspensa sunt : semen teres, loculum im- 

 plens, e foramine suspensum, structura eadem ac '\(\.Bmirrerice. 

 Arbores et arbusculee ^V^ America tropica et in Antillis indi- 

 gence: io\i2^, alterna^ohlonga^petiolata: paniculaj corymhosce^ 

 terminales^ soepius laxe ranfioscB ; flores alhi^ mediocres^ inter- 

 dum mqjores : drupae m,q/'usculce, scepius rubrce. 



1. Crematomia Cumanensis, nob. ; — Rhamnus Cumanensis, 

 Loejl.. Itin. 182 ; — Ehretia exsucca, Linn. 8p. 275 ; Willd. 

 Sp. i. 1078 ; DC. Prodr. ix. 508 ; — Ehretia cyniosa, Willd. 

 {no?i Poir. nee Thonn.) in B. <J& Sch. iv. 805 ; DC. /. c. 511; 

 — arborescens, ramis teretibus, fusco-cinerascentibus, gla- 

 bris, lenticellatis ; foliis obovatis, acutis, imo cuneato-at- 

 tenuatis, coriaceis, supra minute scabridulo-pilosulis, subtus 

 pallidioribus, opace brunneis, glabris, minute rugulosis, 

 marginibus paulo revolutis ; petiolo tenui, sulcato, limbo 

 12-14-plo breviore : corymbis terminalibus, pedunculatis, 

 dichotonie multiramosis, compresso-angularibus, glabris ; 

 floribus brevissime pedicellatis, bracteolatis ; calyce coriaceo, 

 glabro, inffiqualiter 2-3-fido ; corolla infundibuliformi, tubo 

 calyce duplo longiore, lobis suborbicularibus, imo auriculato- 

 cordatis, patentibus, filamentis paulo supra basin insertis, 

 imo dilatatis et villosulis, mox iiliformibus, ciliatis, lons-e 

 exsertis ; antheris Imearibus, imo nssis, in sinu oscillato- 

 riis ; stylo tenuissimo, longe exserto, pro quarta parte bi- 

 fido ; drupa 4-gone globosa, 4-pyrena, pyrenis dorso spon- 

 giosis. — In Venezuela : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit.^ Cuniana 

 (Moritz, 383). 



A tree twenty feet high, called by the natives Guatacard ; 

 its leaves are 3-3^ inches long, \\ inch broad, on a petiole 

 3 lines long : the panicle is 4 inches long and broad ; the ca- 



