Mr. J. Miers on the Ehretiaceae. 309 



tantuni puberulis, subtus pallidioribus, cinereo-glaucis, sparse 

 puberulis ; petiolo tenuissimo, striate, superne puberulo, 

 limbo 4-5-plo breviore : paniculis corymbosis, terminalibus, 

 ramulis tenuibus, compressis, pallidis, glabris ; floribus spe- 

 ciosis ; calyce turbinate, 5-dentato, extus brevissime tomen- 

 toso, intus cano-sericeo ; corolla? carnosula? tubo calyci 

 sequilongo, lobis patentibus, rotundis, imo cordato-auricu- 

 latis, tubo duplo longioribus ; fllamentis subulatis, pilosulis, 

 imo villosis, supra basin tubi insertis ; antheris divaricatis, 

 oscillatoriis, longiuscule exsertis ; stylo ultra tertiam partem 

 bifido, stigmatibus peltato-clavatis. — In Mexico : v. s. in 

 herb. Hook., Tehuantepec, pro v. Oaxaca (Andrieux, 201) ; 

 Sierra Pedro Nolasco (Jungensen, 710). 



A tree thirty feet high, with branchlets 1^ line thick, and 

 axils 3 lines apart ; leaves 2|-3^ inches long, l|-2 inches 

 broad, on a slender divaricating petiole 5-10 lines long ; the 

 panicle is 2\ inches long, with stiff spreading branches : calyx 

 3 lines long ; tube of corolla the same length, its lobes 6 lines 

 long. 



12. Grematomia revoluta, nob. ; — Bourreria revoluta, H.B.K. 

 iii. 67; — Ehretia revoluta, DC. Prodr. ix. 507; — ramulis 

 subteneris, teretibus, glabris ; foliis oblongo-ovatis, apice 

 rotundatis aut valde obtusis, imo cuneatis, crasso-coriaceis, 

 supra profunde viridibus, lucidis, rude reticulatis, in costa 

 rubescente sulcatis, undique glaberrimis, subtus pallidiori- 

 bus, subrugulosis, nervis venisque reticulatis paulo promi- 

 nentibus, marginibus revolutis ; petiolo glabro, canaliculato, 

 limbo 8-plo breviore : panicula racemosa, terminali, pauci- 

 flora ; calyce carnosulo, 5-dentato, extus adpresse pilosulo ; 

 corolla? tubo calyce paulo longiore, lobis ovatis, imo auricu- 

 latis, dimidio brevioribus ; staminibus medio tubi insertis, 

 imo tuboque illinc pilosis, paulo exsertis ; stylo pro tertia 

 parte bifido ; drupa globosa, rubra, pyrenis 4 bigeminis. — 

 In Antillis (hacienda de Regla, Cuba) : v. s. in herb. Hook., 

 S. Domingo (Schomburgk). 



A species easily distinguished from all others : its axils are 

 about ^ inch apart ; the leaves are l|-2 inches long, |-1 inch 

 broad, on a slender petiole 2^ lines long. The terminal pa- 

 nicle does not exceed an inch in length ; the calyx is 3 lines 

 long ; the cylindrical tube of the corolla 4 lines, the lobes of 

 the border 2^ lines long ; the subglobose drupe is 7 lines in 

 diameter. 



1 3. Grematomia molliuscula, nob. ; — ramulis tenuibus, e foliis 

 delapsis nodulosis, compressis, cinereo-tomentellis ; foliis 



