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leaves, approximated towards their extremities : tlie leaves 

 are 3-5 inches long, 1^-2^ inclies broad, on a stiff petiole 

 1-1 J inch long. The panicle is longer and stouter in fruit, 

 when it is 6^ inches long and broad, with long, thick, divari- 

 cating branches, the peduncle being 2^ inches long ; the arti- 

 culated pedicels are ^ line long ; the calyx 3 lines long, the 

 tube of the corolla 2 lines, its lobes 3^ lines long ; tlie filaments 

 are subpuberulous ; the drupe is 9 lines long, 8 lines in dia- 

 meter, suj)ported on the stellated coriaceous calyx ; the achenia 

 correspond in structure with the generic character. 



8. Crematomta coriacea^ nob. ; — ramulis angulato-striatis, 

 glabris, rubescentibus ; foliis ovatis, apice rotundis et mu- 

 cronulatis, imo rotundis et breviter auriculato-cordatis, 

 coriaceis, undique glaberrimis, supra subpallidis, in eosta 

 nervisque valde divaricatis sulcatis, aut profundius valleeu- 

 latis, venis grossis minute reticulatis, marginibus subrevo- 

 lutis, subtus concoloribus, nitidiusculis, costa nervisque 

 transversim venosis valde prominentibus ; petiolo crasso, 

 semitereti, supra sulcato, ruguloso, limbo 10-plo breviore : 

 panicula laxe corymbosa, terminali, dichotome ramosa, 

 ramis longiusculis, comprcssis, nitentibus, rubellis, glabris. 

 — In Antillis : v. s. in herh. Hooh.^ Cuba (La Sagra). 



This is very different from C. calophylJa, to which it was 

 referred by De Franqueville, who obtained the specimen from 

 La Sagra. It is fructiferous, from which all the drupes have 

 fallen. The species is remarkable for its oval, thick, coria- 

 ceous leaves, which are cordate at base, with two imbricated 

 auricular lobes, and are deeply channelled along the midrib 

 and unusually spreading nervures. The branchlets are thick, 

 with axils ^-1 inch apart ; its leaves are 2^-3^ inches long, 

 l|-2^ inches broad, on a very stout petiole 3—4 lines long; 

 the spreading panicle is 3^ inclies long. 



9. Crematomia attenuata^ nob. ; — Bourreria Domingensis, 

 Griseb. in Flor. Brit. W. Ind. 482 ; — Bourreria calo- 

 phylla, Griseh. Cat. PI. Cub. 209; PI. Wrifjht. Cuh. 

 528 ; — BouiTeria tomentosa, Griseh. (non Bon) Cat. PI. 

 Cub. 209 ; — ramulis glaucis, rugulosis, glabris ; foliis 

 late ovatis aut ovato-oblongis, apice rotundatis vel paulo 

 obtusis, subacutis et nmcronulatis, a medio ad imum cu- 

 neatim angustatis, supra glaberrimis aut costam sulcatam 

 subpuberulis, late viridibus, nitentibus, reticulatis, nervis 

 tenuibus, subtus pallide glaucis vel dealbatis, glandulis mi- 

 nutissimis nitentibus sa.'pe munitis, costa j)uberula, mar- 

 ginibus subrevolutis ; petiolo superne sulcato, glabro, limbo 



