304 • Mr. J. Miers on the Ehretiaceae. 



3122), without any description, I believe to be a very different 

 plant, though I have not seen it. 



The axils are f-l£ inch apart ; the leaves are 3^ inches 

 long, If inch broad, on a petiole 7 lines long : the panicle is 

 diffusely branched, has spathulately linear deciduous bracts, 

 2-5 lines long, all pubescent ; the pedicels are 1 line long ; 

 the calyx is 4 lines long ; the tube of the corolla 1 inch long, 

 the lobes of the border \ inch long. 



4. Crematomia Guildingiana, nob. ; — ramis teretibus, sub- 

 glabris, superne parce puberulis, cum axillis ramulorum 

 ultimorum valde approximatis ; foliis elliptico-oblongis, 

 apice sensim acutis, imo acutioribus, utrinque glabris, opacis, 

 supra fusco-viridibus, nervis subimmersis, subtus pallidiori- 

 bus, nervis prominulis, marginibus vix revolutis ; petiolo 

 sulcato, obsolete puberulo, limbo 8-plo breviore : panicula 

 corymbosa, terminali, dichotome expansa, ramis subcom- 

 pressis, subglabris ; pedicellis brevibus ; calyce coriaceo, 5- 

 dentato, aut inasqualiter subtrilobo, extus adpresse puberulo; 

 corollas tubo infundibuliformi, calyce plusquam duplo lon- 

 giore, lobis obtuse ovatis, imo breviter cordato-auriculatis, 

 expansis ; filamentis supra basin tubi insertis, imo dilatatis 

 et villosis, mox puberulis, sursum filiformibus, paulo ex- 

 sertis ; antheris sublinearibus, rugulosis, mucronatis, imo 

 divergentibus, oscillatoriis ; stylo exserto, tenuissimo, apice 

 pro quarta parte bifido ; ovario disco insito ; drupa carnosa, 

 acheniis 4 demum segregatis, e carpophoris suspensis, dorso 

 spongiosis, — In Antillis : v. s. in herb. Hook., in flore et 

 fructu, ins. S. Vincenti (Guilding, cum icone e plant, viv.). 



The details shown in the analytical drawing of the Rev. W. 

 Guilding, in regard to the peculiar mode of suspension of the 

 achenia, are amply confirmed by the specimen which accom- 

 panies it ; but he does not appear to have seen the pericarpial 

 covering of the fruits, which had fallen away at the period 

 when he gathered the plant : this deficiency, however, is sup- 

 plied by the Cuban specimens of Crematomia calophylla, and 

 by Richard's drawing of the same. It is now easy to under- 

 stand the rough and incomplete sketch by Jacquin of the fruit 

 of his Beurreria exsucca, which it was impossible to compre- 

 hend before, in the absence of any specimen. 



The branchlets are stout, 3 lines in thickness, with axils 

 -|-f inch apart; the leaves are 2^-3 inches long, lj-lf inch 

 broad, on a petiole 4 lines long. The corymb is 2^-3 inches 

 long ; the calyx 3 lines long ; the tube of the corolla 8 lines 

 long, the lobes 5 lines long ; the filaments 8 lines long ; the 

 ovary and style 12 lines, the segments of the latter 2£ lines; 



