210 Mr. J. Miers on the Ehretiacea?. 



viridibus, tuberculis piliferis albis magnis exasperatis, mar- 

 ginibus valde revolutis, subtus flavescentibus et pulveru- 

 lento-glaucis ; petiolo pubescente, limbo 12-plo breviore : 

 racemis terminalibus, paucifloris ; calyce subsericeo, 5-den- 

 tato ; corollae tubo calycem e&quante, lobis rotundatis sequi- 

 longis. — In Antillis in savannis : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit., 

 Cuba (Wright, 1365 in parte). 



This specimen bears a ticket referring it, on the authority 

 of Dr. Grisebach, to his Bourreria virgata, a very different 

 plant ; but it corresponds with his Bourreria microphylla. It 

 is a shrub 4 feet high, with spreading branches, and branch- 

 lets about 3 inches long, with axils 1-3 lines apart, bearing- 

 solitary leaves l|-3 lines long, 1-2 lines broad, on a petiole 

 £-£ line long. I have not seen the inflorescence ; but the 

 above specimen shows two calyces from which the fruit has 

 fallen ; these are glabrous, pale outside, the teeth having to- 

 mentose margins. 



15. Bourreria linearis, nob. ; — fruticosa, ramis teretibus, stria- 

 tis, tortuosis, nodosis ; ramulis ultimis brevissimis, aspe- 

 ratis ; foliis paucis, alternis, aut in nodis fasciculatis, mox 

 delapsis, parvis, linearibus, spathulatis, rigidis, crassiusculis, 

 marginibus valde revolutis, supra in costa profunde sul- 

 catis, tuberculis albis setifei-is valde scabris, subtus flavido- 

 tomentosis ; petiolo fulvo-tomentoso, limbo 10-plo breviore : 

 racemis in ramulis novellis terminalibus, brevibus, pauci- 

 floris ; calyce persistente, tubuloso, 5-fisso, laciniis obtuse 

 ovatis, utrinque adpresse pilosulis ; drupa globosa, rubra, 

 camosa, piso minore, 4-pyrena, pyrenis generis. — In Antillis: 

 v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit., Cuba, Faralloma Hermitage 

 (Wright, 1365 in parte). 



This is another distinct species, the last of the three included 

 by Dr. Grisebach under the specific name of virgata — all as 

 dissimilar as can be conceived to Swartz's plant. It forms 

 a low bush, with gnarled rough branches. The axils of the 

 short young branchlets, after the fall of the very deciduous 

 leaves, are spinescent, and so very close together as to give 

 them a muricated appearance. The leaves are 5-6 lines long, 

 ^ line broad, the margins being so greatly revolute as almost 

 to conceal the under surface, the petiole being \ line long ; 

 the calyx is \\ line long, coriaceous, cleft halfway into five 

 rather obtuse lobes, and supports a red drupe 2 lines in 

 diameter. 



[To be continued.] 



