110 Mr. J. Miers on the Ehretiacese. 



cated nerves seated in hollow furrows, often leaving the spaces 

 between them very convex ; the petiole is much broader, thicker, 

 and more deeply channelled. The leaves are 3 \-5\ inches long, 

 lf-3^ inches broad, on a petiole 4-5 lines long. Trew figures 

 separately a leaf from the older lower branches, which is 

 8 inches long and 4£ inches broad. 



It is a tree 20-30 feet high, growing in the more westerly 

 portions of the island of Jamaica. 



3. Ehretia longifolia, nob. ; — ramulis tenuibus, angulato- 

 striatis, pulverulento-glaucis ; foliis elongato-oblongis, sub- 

 lanceolatis, lateribus in medio parallele rectis, dehinc utrin- 

 que attenuatis, cum acumine obtusulo, imo in petiolo de- 

 currentibus, integris, supra glabris, subnitidis, laste viridibus, 

 nervis tenuissimis, divaricatis, arcuatim nexis, subimmersis, 

 reticulatis, subtus fere concoloribus, sub lente minute sca- 

 bridulis, nervis venisque prominulis, marginibus vix revo- 

 lutis ; petiolo semitereti, subglabro, limbo 20-plo breviore : 

 paniculis terminalibus, racemosis, folio paulo brevioribus ; 

 ramis imo nudiusculis, bracteolatis, alternatim multidivisis, 

 ramulis tenuibus, compressis, glaucis vel minute strigoso- 

 puberulis ; floribus parvis, albis, suaveolentibus. — In An- 

 tillis et Mexico: v. s. in hero. Hook., Jamaica (Lane), ib. 

 (Macfadyen) ; Oaxaca (Galeotti, 7194). 



A very distinct species : it forms a handsome tree, with 

 leaves 5-6 inches long, lf-2i inches broad, on a petiole 

 3 lines long. 



4. Ehretia elliptica, DC. Prod. ix. 503 ; — ramis teretibus, gla- 

 bris, lenticellatis, ramulis hirtellis ; foliis ellipticis, utrinque 

 obtusis, apice paulo angustioribus et calloso-mucronatis, in- 

 tegris, in junioribus submembranaceis, supra nitentibus, 

 planis, minute tuberculatis et scabrido-pilosis, in vetustiori- 

 bus rigide coriaceis, fuscis, tuberculis nunc valde auctis et 

 subconfluentibus, creberrime albo-rugosis, asperrimis, con- 

 vexiusculis et in nervis valde sulcatis, marginibus subrevo- 

 lutis, subtus brunneis, opacis, subglabris aut obsolete sca- 

 bris, nervis prominentibus, scabridulis, in axillis barbatis ; 

 petiolo canaliculato, scabrido-piloso, limbo 12-plo breviore : 

 paniculis racemosis, terminalibus, ramosis, scabrido-pilosis ; 

 floribus breviter pedicellatis ; calyce ad basin 5-partito, 

 rigide piloso, lobis acutissimis, erectis, corollas tubo ante 

 stamina intus plicato laciniisque oblongis rcflexis calycem 

 asquantibus, filamentis subulatis, medio tubi ad plicaturas 

 geniculatim insertis, longe exsertis, stylo his a?quilongo, 



