108 Mr. J. Miers on the Eliretiacese. 



nectivo adnatis, membranaceis, rima longitudinal! lateraliter 

 dehiscentibus. Ovarium conico-oblongum, disco parvo in- 

 situm ; semiseptis 2, parietalibus, oppositis, utrinqiie bila- 

 mellatim reflexis, marginibus ovulum amplectentibus ; co- 

 lumna centralis, transversim compressa, sublibera, lamellis 

 parallela, axi vacua, vasa nutritoria intra pseudo-locellos 

 emittens ; inde pseudo-4-loculare, ovulis totidem summum 

 versus appensis. Stylus erectus, exsertus, apice breviter 

 aut minime bifidus, stigmatibus 2 parvulis subclavatis 

 terminatus. Drv/pa globosa, subcarnosa, calyce persistente 

 circumdata, 2-pyrena, pyrenis 2-locularibus, osseis, extus 

 convexis, intus concavis, hinc sub apice lateribus/orawmie 

 parvo loculum ingrediente utrinque perforatis, loculis 1-sper- 

 mis. Semen teres, in quoque loculo e foramine appensum ; 

 integumenta tenuissima, papyracea; embryo in albumine 

 parco rectus, teres, radicula supera. 

 Arbusculae (rarius arbores) Neogece^derumqueMexicance : folia 

 alterna, oblonga, integra vel serrata, glabra aut tuberculato- 

 scabrida, petiolata: paniculse corymbosoBj multiramosce, ter- 

 minates: flores parvi ) albidi. 



1. Ehretia tinifolia, Linn. Amoen. v. 595, Syst. 192, p. 906, 

 i. 309 ; Jacq. Amer. 45 ; Sw. Obs. 87 ; Willd. Sp. i. 1077 ; 

 DeCand. Prodr. ix. 503 ; — Ehretia arborea, P. Br. Jam. 

 168, tab. 16. fig. 1 ; — Ceraso affinis (in £> ar te), Sloane, 

 Jam. ii. 94 (nee icone ibi referta) ; — ramulis tenuibus, te- 

 retibus, glabris ; foliis ovato-ellipticis aut oblongis, utrin- 

 que sensim angustatis, subacutis, aut obtusule acumiuatis, 

 imo obtusis, planis, glaberrimis, supra subnitidis, planis, 

 reticulatim nervosis, submembranaceis aut crassioribus, 

 subtus pallidioribus, nervis tenuibus paulo prominulis, in 

 ramis infimis multo majoribus et semper planis ; petiolo 

 subtenui, sulcato, glabro, limbo 14-plo breviore : pauicula 

 terminali, ramosa, multidivisa, ramulis tenerrimis, compressis, 

 glabris, ssepe laxe expansis ; floribus parvis, albidis. — In 

 Antillis : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit., Jamaica (Sloan, lib. vol. vii. 

 fol. 6 cum icone ex vivo, specim. typ.); Jamaica (P.Browne); 

 ib. (Shakespear) ; Cuba (Linden, 1983) ; in herb. Hook., 

 Cuba (Wright, 1360, 1366). 



All botanists have referred to Sloane as the earliest au- 

 thority for this species, and the typical plant in his herba- 

 rium confirms this ; but they have all overlooked the fact 

 that Sloane collected two species, which are still preserved, 

 one in fol. 5, the other in fol. 6, of his herbarium : the latter is 

 accompanied by his own coloured drawing, taken " ex vivo," 



