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3. Varronia Brittdnii Millsp. Field Mus. Bot. 2: 311. 1909. 



Cordia Brittonii Macbride, Contr. Gray Herb. II. 49: 16. 1917. 



A usually much-branclied shrub, 2.5 m. high or less, the young twigs 

 puberulent. Leaves linear-oblong or oblaneeolate, viscid in drying, sparingly 

 erenulate or entire, rounded or acutish at the apex, narrowed at the base, 

 puberulent and resinous-dotted on both sides, 1.5-3 cm. long, the petioles only 

 1-1.5 mm. long; spikes slender, peduncledj densely several-many-flowered, 

 2-3 cm. long; calyx 2.5-3 mm. long, campanulate, its 5 teeth ovate-deltoid; 

 corolla white, about 4 mm. long, its 5 lobes irregularly dentate; filaments short, 

 pilose, borne above the middle of the corolla-tube; drupe 2-2.5 mm. long. 



Coppices and scrub-lands, Great Bahama, Andros, Eleuthera, Cat Island and 

 Long Island : — Cuba. Recorded by Coker as Cordia cylindrostachya R. & S., and re- 

 ferred by Mrs. Northrop to C. angustifolia R. &. S. Beitton's Varronia. 



4. Varronia lucayana Millsp. Field Mus. Bot. 2: 311. 1909. 



A much-branched shrub, 1-2 m. high, with terete branches, the young 

 twigs densely puberulent. Leaves spatulate or narrowly obovate, thin, 2 cm. 

 long or less, crenate, repand or subentire, rounded or truncate at the apex, 

 cuneate or narrowed at the base, puberulent and resinous-dotted on both sides, 

 the petioles 1-2 mm. long; flowers few, in terminal spikes 1-1.5 cm. long, the 

 peduncles 5-20 mm. long; calyx campanulate, its 5 teeth ovate-triangular; 

 corolla white, about 5 mm. long, its 5 unequal lobes irregularly crenate; fila- 

 ments glabrous, borne near the top of the corolla-1;ube ; drupe 2.5-3 mm. long. 



Rocky plains, Acklin's Island, Mariguana, South Caicos, and Inagua. Endemic. 

 Bahama Varronia. 



3. BOURRERIA P. Browne; Jacq. Enuin. 2, 14. 1760. 



Shrubs or small trees, with alternate petioled entire leaves, and white 

 flowers in terminal corymb-like cymes. Calyx campanulate, 2-5-lobed, the 

 lobes valvate. Corolla salverform, the limb 5-lobed. Stamens 5, borne on the 

 ^ corolla-tube, the filaments filiform. Ovary sessile, 2-celled or incompletely 

 4-celled; styles 2-eleft or connate; stigmas flattened. Fruit a drupe, with thin 

 flesh, inclosing 4 bony nutlets ridged on the back. [Commemorates J. A. 

 Beurer, a Nuremberg apothecary.] About 25 species of tropical America. Type 

 species: Bourreria succulenta Jacq. 



1. Bourreria ovata Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. IV. 3: 203. 1869. 



A shrub or small tree up to 10 m. high or perhaps higher, with a trunk 

 sometimes 1.5 dm. in diameter, the bark reddish-brown, the twigs and leaves 

 glabrous or very slightly pubescent, or shoots from stumps sometimes ^^•ith 

 pubescent foliage. Petioles rather stout, 4 cm. long or less; leaves oblanceolate, 

 oval or nearly orbicular, 4-12 cm. long, subcoriaceous, rounded or emarginate 

 at the apex, mostly narrowed at the base; cymes commonly many -flowered, 

 5-10 cm. broad; pedicels short; calyx 5-6 mm. long, irre^gularly 5-lobed; 

 corolla about 10 mm. long, its lobes nearly orbicular; styles connate"; filaments 

 glabrous; drupe orange-red, 10-15 mm. in diameter, subglobose. 



Scrub-lands and coppices, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and the Berry 

 Islands to Grand Turk, Inagua, the Anguilla Isles and Cay Sal : — Florida ; Cuba 



The species is composed of a number of races with the leaves varying from 

 oblanceolate to suborbicular ; the leaves are usually quite glabrous but those on 

 shoots from cut stumps are pubescent. The species is distinct from B. tomentosa 

 (Lam.) Griseb. to which it has been referred by Grisebach and by Dolley : it was 

 referred to B. havancnsis Miers, by Hitchcock and by Mrs. Northrop, and recorded by 

 Schoepf as Ehretia tinifolia and E. Beureria. Catesby, 2 : pi. 79. Closely related to 

 B. succulenta Jacq. Strong-back. 



