Mr. J. Miers on the Ehretiacese. 201 



petiolata: paniculse corymbosw, terminales, dichotome ra- 

 mosce; flores mediocres, albkli : drupse aurantiaccs vel rubrce } 

 nitidce. 



1. Bourreria (Beurreria) succulenta, Jacq. Amer. 44; Obs. 2, 

 tab. 26; Gaertn. iii. 170, tab. 212 (non Griseb.) ; — Bourreria 

 arborea, Browne, Jam. 168, tab. 15. fig. 2 ; Ehretia Bour- 

 reria, Linn. Syst. iii. 936 ; Lam. Diet. i. 527 ; DC. Prodr. 

 ix. 506 ; — Cordia Bourreria, Linn. Amoen. v. 395 ; — Jasmi- 

 num periclymenifolium, Shane, Jam. ii. 96, tab. 204. fig. 1 ; 

 Ray, Dendr. 63 ;— ramulis teretibus, subangulatis, tenui- 

 bus, glabris ; foliis obovato-oblongis aut ovatis, imo cuneatis, 

 apice rotundatis vel obtusis, glabris, supra nitidis, ad nervos 

 sulcatis, subtus pallidioribus, flavidiusculis, uervis paulo 

 prominulis, margine subundulatis ; petiolo canaliculato, 

 limbo 8-10-plo breviore : racemis apud ramulos ultimos 

 novellos paucifoliosos terminalibus, brevibus, foliis delapsis 

 deinde corymbum laxiusculum mentientibus, brachiis com- 

 pressis, glabris ; calyce tubuloso, crasso, glaberrimo, acute 

 semi-5-fido, dentibus margine tomentosis ; corollas tubo ca- 

 lyce paulo longiore, limbi lobis oblongis, expansis ; stami- 

 nibus paulo exsertis ; drupa globosa, carnosa, crocea, piso 

 majore, 4-pyrena. — In Antillis : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit., 

 Jamaica (specim. typ. in lib. Sloan, vol. vii. fol. 36, planta 

 superior); Jamaica (Dr. Wright). 



Many plants have been confounded with this species, the 

 type of which exists in Sloane's herbarium ; and, as no doubt 

 can be raised concerning it, I have reformed its specific cha- 

 racter from the original. It is described by Sloane and Browne 

 as a tree from 14 to 20 feet high, growing in the lowlands of 

 Jamaica. The leaves are 1\ inches long, \\ inch broad, on a 

 petiole 3-4 lines long ; the racemes, terminal on the young 

 branches, seldom exceed an inch in length ; but as the leaves 

 fall off, the inflorescence assumes the appearance of a more 

 extended irregular corymb ; the flowers are white, upon very 

 short pedicels ; the calyx is fleshy, 3 lines long, glabrous out- 

 side, pubescent within the teeth, which are tomentose on the 

 margins ; the tube of the corolla is 5 lines long, the lobes of 

 the border 3 lines long ; the subulate filaments are inserted 

 above the base of the tube and extend beyond its mouth, the 

 anthers are versatile, attached in the sinus of their divergent 

 base. The placentation of the ovary and the structure of the 

 fruit accord with the above generic character ; the drupes, of 

 a saffron-colour, are 3 lines in diameter. 



The plant described by Desfontaines under the name of 

 Ehretia Bourreria, corresponds with my B. recurva, agreeing 



