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and axils 3-6| lines apart ; the leaves are 3-4 inches long, 

 1£— 1^ inch broad, on a petiole 5-6 lines long: the panicle 

 is about 3 inches long and broad ; the calyx 2\ lines long ; 

 tube of corolla 3 lines, lobes 2 lines long. 



7. Bourreria virgata, Don (non Griseb.) . Diet. iv. 389 ; — Ehretia 

 virgata, Sw. Flor. Ind. Occ. i. 463 ; D C. Prodr. ix. 506 ; — 

 fruticosa, ramis tenuissimis, teretibus, flexuosis, divaricatis, 

 ramulis filiformibus, scabridulis ; foliis oblongis vel ellip- 

 ticis, apice obtuse acutis, imo acute attenuatis, supra pro- 

 funde viridibus, nervis tenuibus immersis, planis, in costa 

 sulcatis, albo-tuberculatis et scabridulo-pilosis, subtus pal- 

 lidis, in nervis pilosuEs ; petiolo tereti, scabridulo, limbo 

 14-plo breviore : paniculis terminalibus, dichotome ramosis, 

 ramis longis, tenuissimis, rigide pilosulis, paucifloris ; calyce 

 turbinato, acute 5-dentato, extus pubescente ; corollas tubo 

 calyce duplo longiore, lobis rotundatis, dimidio brevioribus ; 

 staminibus imo insertis, antheris fuscis, vix ultra faucem 

 exsertis ; stylo apice breviter bifido ; drupa (sec. cl. Sw.) 

 subglobosa, 4-costata, nitida, coccinea, 4-pyrena, pyrenis 

 per paria semiadhasrentibus. — In Antillis (ins. S. Domingo 

 in desertis Hispaniolre, Sw.) : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit., 

 specim. typ. (Swartz, in flore). 



A shrub, 7 to 8 feet high, bearing the name of Quazumillo, 

 with very slender, almost filiform branches, the axils being 

 about 9 lines apart ; the leaves are 1 \-\\ inch long, 7-10 lines 

 broad, on a petiole \-\\ line long : the terminal raceme is 

 about 1 inch long, few-flowered, with pedicels 2 lines long ; 

 the calyx is 2| lines long, the tube of the corolla 4 lines, its 

 lobes 3 lines long. 



The three several plants referred here by Dr. Grisebach 

 (PI. Wright. Cub. Or. p. 528) all belong to different species. 



8. Bourreria radida, Don, Diet. iv. 390 ; — Ehretia radula, 

 Poir. (71011 Cham.) Diet. Suj)j)L ii. 2; DC. Prodr. ix. 

 506 ; — ramulis subangulatis, puberulis ; foliis obovatis, apice 

 rotundis vel obtusis, imo cuneatim attenuatis, valde coria- 

 ceis, convexis, in costa sulcatis, supra crebre tuberculato- 

 scabris, profunde viridibus, subnitentibus, subtus cinereo- 

 vel fulvido-pallidis, subtomentosis, in nervis prominentibus 

 scabridulis, marginibus valde revolutis ; petiolo hispidulo, 

 limbo 12-plo breviore: paniculis terminalibus, laxe corym- 

 bosis ; calyce tubuloso, cinereo, extus densius, intus sparse 

 adpresso-pilosulis, dentibus obtusis ; corolla? tubo calyce 

 paulo longiore ; drupa pisi magnitudine, 4-pyrena, pyrenis 

 structura generis. — In Antillis : S. Domingo (Poiteau) : v. $. 



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