172 MR. JOHN MIERS ON THE GENUS CRESCENTIA. 



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culo 5-0, sessilibus, oblongis, a medio ad basin gradatim spathulato-euneatis, apice 

 obtuse rotundatis, vel sensim acutis, minute mucronatis, glaberrimis, supra lsete 

 viridibus, reticulatis, subtus pallidioribus, crebre punctatis, nervis subdivaricatis 

 paulo prominulis intra marginem arcuatim nexis, marginibus revolutis : nore 

 Bolitario, pedunculo ad medium 2-bracteolato ; calyce usque ad basin 2-fisso, carno- 

 sulo, impunctato ; corolla eampanulata, imo breviter tubulosa, dein ampliata, infra 

 medium transversim duplicata, extus undique verruculis minutis scabrido-rugosa, 

 ore valdc obliquo, limbo 5-lobo, sub-2-labiato, lobis inaequalibus, 2 superioribus 

 erectioribus, cunctis profundissime incisis, laciniis longis, linearibus; antheris vix 

 ultra faucem exsertis ; ovario oblongo, in discum cupuliformem carnosum margine 

 erenulatum insito. — In Antillis : v. s. insula Sancti Thomae, ad Boboni ((Ersted). 



This species in some respects corresponds with C. cuneifolia, but differs in its smaller 

 leaves, and in its corolla, the lobes of which are divided almost to their base into 3 or 4 very 

 long, narrow, linear segments, in which respect it resembles C. obovata; bnt there the 

 segments are two-thirds shorter and broader. The branch is 2 lines thick, 3 lines broad at 

 the cupular nodes, which are f-1 inch apart ; the leaves are If inch long, 7-12 lines 

 broad; the peduncle is 6 lines long; the fleshy calyx, 9 lines long, is split to the base 

 into two nearly equal obtuse segments ; the tube of the corolla is 1 inch long, the basal 

 contracted portion being 3 lines long, and 2-J lines in diameter, and the transverse du- 

 plicature G lines from the base ; the lobes of the border are 3 lines long and broad, ex- 

 clusive of their segments, which are quite linear, 9 lines long, and -J line broad. 



7. OEESCENTIA aggkegata, nob. : Cucurbitifera Bhamni facie, Sloane, Jam. ii. 175, 



tab. 228 : truncis circiter 6 ex ipsa radice simul enatis, sesqniorgyalibus, erectis, sn- 

 perne ramosis; ramis patentibus, copiose foliosis ; ramulis brevibus, cupnloso-nodosis, 

 foliis paucis munitis vel subnudis, hinc pseudospiniformibus ; foliis snbparvis, ex 

 axillis nodosis 4-8, fasciculatis, sessilibus, oblongis, imo breviter angustioribus, 

 apice rotundatis vel obtusis, fusco-viridibus, nitentibns, glabris : floribus e trunco vel 

 ex axillis ramorum, solitariis ; pedunculo folium sequante ; calyce 2-fisso ; corolla 

 pedunculo dimidio longiore, striis sordide brunneis signata, limbo guttato, valde 

 laciniato ; fructu globoso. — In Jamaica. 



This is a species evidently intermediate between the preceding and the following, in 

 regard to the size of the leaves. Sloane describes it as having several trunks springing 

 from the same root, 9 or 10 feet high, and 4 or 5 inches in diameter, covered with 



a white smooth bark, with several branches standing out horizontally, with prominent 

 axils 3 to 6 lines apart, each furnished with a tuft of leaves, which are sessile, 1-1J inch 

 long, 5-7 lines broad, with rounded summits ; the branchlets are very patent, not more 

 than IJ inch long, with few leaves, and, terminating in an obtuse point, are almost 

 like as many spines ; and hence, when there are a number of them close together, the 

 branches appear prickly. The peduncle is 1 inch long, the corolla 1| inch long. 



8. Crescentia linearoolia, nob. : Cujete n° 3, Plum. Gen. 23: ramulis subangn- 



latis, subsulcatis, cortice pallido, coriaceo, laxiusculo ; axillis alternis, approximatis, 

 cupuloso-nodosis ; foliis in axillis 6-12, fasciculatis, parvulis, linearibus, apice sensim 



