208 Mr. J. Miers on the Ehretiaceae. 



oblongis, rotunclatis ; staminibus paulo exsertis ; stylo bre- 

 vissime bifido ; drupa piso minore, globosa, 4-pyrena, py- 

 renis generis. — In Antillis : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit., Cuba 

 (Wright, 3125). 



A very distinct species, which is stated by Dr. Grisebach to 

 resemble B. Domingensis in many characters ; it is difficult, 

 however, to conceive any two plants to be more unlike, the 

 leaves here being at least twenty times as small, with a very 

 different inflorescence. The plant has the appearance of a 

 small Gay-Lussacia, with striated rugulose branches, the 

 younger ones of a reddish hue, with axils 1-4 lines apart ; the 

 leaves are only 4-6 lines long, 2^-3 lines broad, on a petiole 

 \ line long ; the panicle is f inch long, sometimes reduced to 

 a solitary flower ; the calyx is 2| lines long, the tube of the 

 corolla 3 lines, its lobes 2 lines long ; the drupe is 2 lines in 

 diameter. 



12. Bourreria divaricata, Don, Diet. iv. 389 ; Griseb. PL 

 Wright. Cub. 528 ; Cat. PI. Cub. 210 ;— Ehretia divari- 

 cata, DC. Cat. Monsp. 108, Prodr. ix. 506; — Ehretia 

 spinifex, Griseb. (non R. & Sch.) PI. Wright. Cub. 528 ; — 

 Ehretia montana, Griseb. loc. cit. 528 ; — Ehretia acantho- 

 phora, DC. Prodr. ix. 510; — fruticosa, ramulis nodosis, 

 cinereis, divaricatissimis ; foliis subfasciculatis, spathulato- 

 oblongis, obtusis, subcoriaceis, supra nitentibus, in costa 

 sulcatis, nervis tenuibus, divaricatis, intra marginem ar- 

 cuatim nexis, albo tuberculatis et aspere scabridis, margini- 

 bus valde revolutis, subtus glaucis, pubescentibus, in nervis 

 pilosulis ; petiolo tomentoso, limbo 10-12-plo breviore : 

 corymbis racemosis, terminalibus, paucifloris ; calyce 5- 

 dentato, dealbato, extus sericeo, intus sparse puberulo ; co- 

 rollas tubo cylindrico, calyce dimidio longiore ; staminibus 

 medio tubi insertis, brevibus, vix exsertis ; stylo brevissime 

 bifido ; drupa globosa, aurantiaca vel rubra, 4-pyrena, py- 

 renis generis. — In Antillis : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit., Cuba, 

 circa Havanam et Monte Verde (Wright, 3136) ; in herb. 

 Hook., Cuba, Monte Verde (Wright, 1365). 



A Lycium-\ike shrub, 2 to 5 feet high, with rigid spreading 

 branches ; the leaves are fasciculated in each prominent node, 

 5-7 lines long, 1J-2 lines broad, tapering into a petiole h line 

 long ; the terminal raceme is less than 1 inch long, with from 

 four to six alternate flowers on short pedicels ; the calyx is 

 l^r line long, the tube of the corolla 2 lines, the lobes 2 lines 

 long ; the drupe is 3 lines in diameter. 



This plant is strangely complicated by Dr. Grisebach, at 



