302 Mr. J. Miers on the EhretiacetB. 



Drupa majuscula, globosa, calyce persistente sufralta : peri- 

 carpium crasse coriaceum, utrinque nitens, maturitate deci- 

 duum ; mesocarpium parcum, subcarnosum : cremocarpium 

 persistens, sub-4-gonum, in achenia 4 primum bigemina, 

 demum omnino solubile ; achenia ventre angulata, extus 

 subplana aut paulo convexa, lateribus subalata, endocarpio 

 dorsali amplo, spongioso-reticulato, e cellulis plurimis va- 

 cuis elongatis radiatim centrifugis conflato, angulo ventrali 

 1-locularia, 1-sperma, loculis oblongis, subosseis, indehis- 

 centibus, latere unico summum versus forarnine parvo (intra 

 canalem angustum vasiferum ebasi adscendentem) perforatis: 

 columella centralis, principio ad basin bipartita, mox iterum 

 flssa in carpophora 4 rigida tenuia erecta ad summum 

 adscendentia ; hsec subito reflexa, chordas filiformes liberas 

 ad achenia infra medium affixas simulant, et hoc modo 

 achenia libera in acre suspensa sunt : semen teres, loculum im- 

 plens, e foramine suspensum, structura eadem ac i&Bourrerice. 

 Arbores et arbusculas in America tropica et in Antillis indi- 

 gent: folia alter na, oblonga, petiolata : panicuke corymbosoz, 

 terminates, sapius laxe ramosce; flores albi, mediocres, inter- 

 dum majores : drapse majusculw, sapius rubral. 



1. Crematomia Cumanensis, nob. ; — Bliamnus Cumanensis, 

 Loefl. Itin. 182 ; — Ehretia exsucca, Linn. Sp. 275 ; Willd. 

 Sp. i. 1078 ; PC. Prodr. ix. 508 ;— Ehretia cymosa, Willd. 

 (non Poir. nee Thonn.) in R. & Sch. iv. 805 ; PC. 1. c. 511 ; 

 — arborescens, ramis teretibus, fusco-cinerascentibus, gla- 

 bris, lenticellatis ; foliis obovatis, acutis, imo cuneato-at- 

 tenuatis, coriaceis, supra minute scabridulo-pilosulis, subtus 

 pallidioribus, opace brunneis, glabris, minute rugulosis, 

 marginibus paulo revolutis ; petiolo tenui, sulcato, limbo 

 12-14-plo breviore : corymbis terminalibus, pedunculatis, 

 dichotome multiramosis, compresso-angularibus, glabris ; 

 floribus brevissime pedicellatis, bracteolatis ; calyce coriaceo, 

 glabro, inasqualiter 2-3-fido ; corolla infundibuliformi, tubo 

 calyce duplo longiore, lobis suborbicularibus, imo auriculato- 

 cordatis, patentibus, filamentis paulo supra basin insertis, 

 imo dilatatis et villosulis, mox filiformibus, ciliatis, longe 

 exsertis ; antheris linearibus, imo fissis, in sinu oscillato- 

 riis ; stylo tenuissimo, longe exserto, pro quarta parte bi- 

 iido ; drupa 4-gone globosa, 4-pyrena, pyrenis dorso spon- 

 giosis. — In Venezuela : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit., Cumana 

 (Moritz, 383). 



A tree twenty feet high, called by the natives Guatacare ; 

 its leaves are 3-3^ inches long, 1^ inch broad, on a petiole 

 3 lines long : the panicle is 4 inches long and broad ; the ca- 



