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spathulato-oblongis vel lanceolato-oblongis, obtusis, supra 

 obscure viridibus, scabrido-asperatis, e tuberculis albis rigide 

 pilosis, subtus pallidis vel brunnescentibus, pilis simplicibus 

 rigidis adpressis vestitis, fere enerviis, marginibus revolutis; 

 petiolo cano-pubescente, limbo 12-plo breviore : racemis folio 

 brevioribus, aut terminalibus vel e ramulis novellis brevis- 

 simis folio unico munitis ortis, 4-6-floris ; floribus brevissime 

 pedicellatis ; calyce fere ad medium 5-6-dentato, dentibus 

 mucronulatis, utrinque cano-velutino ; corollas tubo calyce 

 paulo longiore, lobis 5-6, rotundis, imbricatim expansis ; 

 staminibus 5-6, medio tubi insertis ; autheris longe ex- 

 sertis, mucronulatis ; stylo ultra quartam partem bifido. — In 

 Mexico : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit, (ex herb. Pavon sub nom. 

 Ehretia exsucca). 



The specimens bearing Pavon's name, in his own hand, are 

 inscribed in pencil, by D. Don, Cortesia spathulata ; but it 

 certainly does not belong to that genus. Its branchlets are 

 slender, with axils 3-5 lines apart ; the leaves are 1— If inch 

 long, 3-7 lines broad, on a petiole 1-1^ line long; racemes 

 little more than ^ inch long, pedicels \— 1 line long ; calyx 

 3 lines long ; tube of corolla 5 lines, wider in the mouth, lobes 

 of border 3 lines long ; anthers exserted 2| lines beyond the 

 mouth of the tube. 



16. Crematomia Kunthiana, nob.; — Bourreria exsucca, H.B.K. 

 iii. 67 (non Linn, nee Jacq.) ; — ramis teretibus, glabris, in- 

 canis, junioribus pubescentibus ; foliis obovatis, obtusis, 

 rotundatis, coriaceis, reticulato-venosis, sgepius subglabris, 

 utrinque praesertim in nervis strigoso-pubescentibus ; petiolo 

 canaliculato, pubescente aut glabro, cum margine ciliato, 

 limbo 10-plo breviore : paniculis terminalibus, corymbosis, 

 pedunculatis, dichotome ramosis, pubescentibus ; floribus 

 sessilibus ; calyce irregulariter 2-3-fido, subpubescente, la- 

 ciniis acutis ; corollas tubo cylindraceo, calyce longiore, lobis 

 5, rotundatis, patentibus ; staminibus 5, tubo insertis, co- 

 rollas asquilongis, imo villosis ; stylo bifido, stigmatibus ca- 

 pitals ; fructu 4-gone globoso, depresse rostrato, in achenia 

 4 spongiosa demum soluto. — In Venezuela, prope Cumana 

 (non vidi). 



This is indigenous with C. Cumanensis, and is also called 

 Guatacare by the natives ; but it differs from it in its rounder 

 leaves, not cuneate at base, of only half their size, on a shorter 

 pubescent petiole, in its pubescent inflorescence with sessile 

 flowers, its tomentose calyx, its corolla with a shorter and 

 more cylindrical tube. Its leaves are 1^ inch long, on a petiole 

 1-2 lines long. It is a tree 20 feet high. 



