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the achenia are 7 lines long, 5^ lines broad, narrowing up- 

 wards and somewhat cordately inflected at the base ; the cell 

 and its contained seed are 3 lines long. 



5. Crematomia Jacquiniana, nob.; — Beurreria exsucca, Jacq. 

 Amer. 45, tab. 173. fig. 17; Lam. Diet. i. 527; — Ehretia 

 exsucca, Linn. Sj). 275 ; DC. Prodr. ix. 508 ; — arborescens, 

 ramis interdum subscandentibus ; foliis ovatis, acutis, gla- 

 berrimis, petiolatis : corymbis racemosis, subterminalibus 

 floribus pedicellatis, albis, suaveolentibus ; calyce urceolato 

 irregulariter trifido, extus glabro, laciniis intus villosis 

 corolla} tubo calyce triplo longiore, lobis suborbicularibus 

 imo auriculato-cordatis, cum tubo crassiusculis, patentibus 

 filamentis infra medium insertis, longe exsertis ; antheris 

 acutis, oscillatoriis ; stylo apice bifido, exserto ; fructu (de- 

 lapso pericarpio?) sec. Jacq. viridi, 4-gono, apice obtuse 

 angustato, 4-sulcato, ad angulos partibili, demum in achenia 

 4 libera in arbore persistentia soluto. — In Nova Granada 

 ad Carthagenam : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit, (flos tantum, 

 ab ipso Jacq. communicatus) . 



This species, which is clearly identified by the flower sent 

 by Jacquin, differs from the others I have seen, in its more 

 fleshy texture and different proportions. It differs from all in 

 its subscandent habit and the country of its origin ; it agrees 

 with Ehretia grandiflora, Poir., in the size of its leaves, but 

 differs in its white (not reddish) flowers, which have a much 

 longer tube and shorter lobes. 



It is a tree fifteen feet high ; its leaves are 2 inches long ; 

 the calyx is 2\ lines long, the tube of the corolla 6 lines long, 

 1 line broad at its base, 5 lines in diameter in the mouth ; the 

 lobes are 4 lines in diameter, much overlapping one another 

 by their auricular bases ; the stamens extend 2| lines, the style 

 3 lines beyond the mouth. 



6. Crematomia venosa, nob. ; — ramulis teretibus, subvirgatis, 

 striatis, glabris ; foliis ovatis, apice rotundatis, mucronatis 

 aut emarginatis, imo obtusis, subinsequilateris, in petiolo 

 breviter subito decurrentibus, undique glaberrimis, supra 

 viridibus, costa sulcata, nervis divergentibus rubellis arcua- 

 tim nexis, prominule reticulatis, subtus pallidioribus, nervis 

 rubescentibus et prominulis, planis, marginibus paulo re- 

 pando-sinuleatis ; petiolo crassiusculo, sulcato, glabro, limbo 

 4-8-plo breviore : panicula terminali, laxe ramosa, ramis di- 

 chotomis, divergentibus, compressis, glabris ; bracteis valde 

 deciduis ; floribus fere sessilibus ; calyce extus obsolete pu- 

 berulo, 5-dentato, dentibus acutis, intus cano-subsericeis ; 



