Mr. J. Miers on the Ehretiacea^. 303 



Ijx is 4 lines long, glabrous, striated, the tube of the corolla 

 9 lines long, the lobes of the border 4 lines in diameter ; the 

 stamens exserted 4 lines beyond the mouth ; the anthers 

 1^ line long ; the style as long as the stamens. 



2. Crematomia grandijlora, nob. ; — Ehretia grandiflora, Poir. 

 Diet. Suppl. ii. 3; R. & Sch. Si/st. iv. 529; DC. Prodr. 

 ix. 510 ; — ramulis patentibus, teretibus, substrictis ; foliis 

 ovatis, apice obtusis, imo attenuatis, inicquilateris, nervosis, 

 utrinque glabris, subtus rcticulatis, breviter petiolatis : pa- 

 niculis corymbosis, terminalibus ; calyce 5-dcntato, sub- 

 pubescente, cinereo ; corolla? magnoj tubo calyci ajquilongo, 

 lobis longioribus, ovatis, patentibus, rubellis ; antheris ob- 

 longis, oscillatoriis ; stylo apice bitido. — In Antillis, ins. 

 S. Domingo {non vidi). 



This species appears to differ from C. Guathnahnsis {Bour- 

 reria grandiflora^ Griseb.) in its smaller, more oval leaves, 

 and a corolla with larger reddish lobes. The leaves are about 

 2 inches long, 1^ inch broad. 



3. Crematomia Guatimalensis^ nob. ; — Beurreria grandiflora, 

 Bertol. FL Guat. 10 {non Griseb.) ; — Ehretia Guatima- 

 lensis, DG. Prodr. ix. 507; — ramulis apice subpubescenti- 

 bus ; foliis ellipticis vel elliptico-oblongis, uti-inque acutis, 

 basi angustioribus, utrinque subglabris vel e tuberculis mi- 

 nutis obsolete scabridulis, planis, nervis tenuibus, immersis, 

 supra opacis, subtus pallidioribus ; petiolo subtenui, canali- 

 culato, glabro, limbo 6-plo breviore : panicula corymbosa 

 terminali, dichotome ramosa, ramis angulato-compressis, 

 pubescentibus, bracteolis foliolosis, ovato-lanceolatis ; calyce 

 e laciniis coha^rentibus irregulariter 2-3-lido, coriaceo, extus 

 glabro, intus subsericeo ; corolla? alba; tubo infundibuliformi, 

 calyce triplo longiore, fauce ampla, limbi lobis suborbiculari- 

 ovatis, imo cordato-auriculatis, patentibus ; filamentis paulo 

 supra basin tubi insertis, imo dilatatis et villosis, exsertis ; 

 antheris fusco-coriaceis, mucronatis, rima nivea utrinque 

 dehiscentibus, oscillatoriis ; stylo stamina jequante, apice 

 biiido. — In Guatemala et Venezuela : v. s. in herb. Mus. 

 Brit. J La Guayra prope Las Cadugras (Moritz, 907). 



As the above characters, drawn from the Venezuelan plant, 

 accord, with few exceptions, with the description given by 

 Bertoloni of his species from Guatemala, I have referred it 

 there. It differs from the preceding species, with which Dr. 

 Grisebach confounds it (Cat. PI. Cub. p. 204) in the much 

 larger tube of the corolla, which is white (not reddish). The 

 Beurreria grandiflora of that botanist, from Cuba (Wright, 



