Mr. J, Miers on the Ehretiaceae. 309 



tantum pubenilis, subtus pallidioribus, cinereo-glaucis, sparse 

 puberulis ; petiolo tenuissimo, striate, superne puberulo, 

 limbo 4-5-plo breviore : paniculis corymbosis, terminalibus, 

 ramulis tenuibus, compressis, pallidis, glabris ; floribus spe- 

 ciosis ; caljce tiirbinato, 5-dentato, extus brevissime tomeii- 

 toso, intus cano-sericeo ; corollse carnosulaj tubo calyci 

 a3quilongo, lobis patentibus, rotiindis, imo cordato-auricu- 

 latis, tubo duplo longioribus ; filamentis subulatis, pilosulis, 

 imo villosis, supra basin tubi insertis ; antlieris divaricatis, 

 oscillatoriis, longiuscule exsertis ; stylo ultra tertiam partem 

 bifido, stigmatibus peltato-clavatis. — In Mexico : v. s. in 

 herb. Hook., Tehuantepec, pro v. Oaxaca (Andiieux, 201) ; 

 Sierra Pedro Nolasco (Jungensen, 710). 



A tree thirty feet high, with branchlets 1^ line thick, and 

 axils 3 lines apart; leaves 2^-3^ inches long, H-2 inches 

 broad, on a slender divaricating petiole 5-10 lines long ; the 

 panicle is 2^ inches long, -with stitF spreading branches : calyx 

 3 lines long ; tube of corolla the same length, its lobes 6 lines 

 long. 



12. Crematomia revoluta, nob. ; — Boun-eria revoluta, H.B.K. 

 ill. 67; — Ehretia revoluta, DC. Frodr. ix. 507; — ramulis 

 subteneris, teretibus, glabris ; foliis oblongo-ovatis, apice 

 rotundatis aut valde obtusis, imo cmieatis, crasso-coriaceis, 

 supra profmide viridibus, lucidis, nide reticulatis, in costa 

 rubescente sulcatis, undique glaberrimis, subtus pallidiori- 

 bus, subrugulosis, nervis venisque reticulatis paulo promi- 

 nentibus, marginibus revolutis ; petiolo glabro, canaliculato, 

 limbo 8-plo breviore : panicula racemosa, terminali, pauci- 

 flora ; calyce carnosulo, 5-dentato, extus adpresse pilosulo ; 

 corollaj tubo calyce paulo longiore, lobis ovatis, imo auricu- 

 latis, dimidio brevioribus ; staminibus medio tubi insertis, 

 imo tuboque illinc pilosis, paulo exsertis ; stylo pro tertia 

 parte bifido ; drupa globosa, rubra, pp-enis 4 bigeminis. — 

 In Antillis (hacienda de Regla, Cuba) : v. s. in herb. HooJc.y 

 S. Domingo (Schomburgk). 



A species easily distinguished from all others : its axils are 

 about \ inch apart ; the leaves are H-2 inches long, |-1 inch 

 broad, on a slender petiole 2h lines long. The terminal pa- 

 nicle does not exceed an inch in length ; the calyx is 3 lines 

 long ; the cylindi-ical tube of the corolla 4 lines, the lobes of 

 the border 2^ lines long ; the subglobose drupe is 7 lines in 

 diameter. 



13. Crematomia moUiusaila, nob. ; — ramulis tenuibus, e foliis 

 delapsis nodulosis, compressis, cinereo-tomentellis ; foliis 



