EHEETIACEAE. 359 



3. Varronia Brittdnii Millsp. Field Mus. Bot. 1-- 311. 1909. 



Cordia Brittonii Macbridej Contr. Gray Herb. II. 49 : 16. 1917. 



A usually muolL-branehed shrub, '2.5 in. high or less, the young twigs 

 puberulent. Leaves linear-oblong or oblaneeolate, viseid in drying, sparingly 

 crenulate or entire, rounded or acutish at the apex, narrowed at the base, 

 puberulent and resinous-dotted on both sides, 1.5-3 cm. long, the petioles only 

 1-1.5 mm. long; spikes slender', peduncled, densely several-many-flowered, 

 2-3 em. long; calyx 2.5-3 mm. long, eampanulate, its 5 teeth ovate-deltoid; 

 corolla white, about 4 mm. lon.g, its 5 lobes irregularly dentate; filaments short, 

 pilose, borne above the midjjlle of the corolla-tube; drupe 2-2.5 mm. long. 



Coppices and scrub-lands, Great Bahama, Andres, Eleuthera, Cat Island and 

 Long Island : — Cuba. Recorded by Coker as Oordia cylindrostachya R. & S., and re- 

 ferred by Mrs. Northror^ to O. angustifoUa E. & S. Beitton's Vaiieonia. 



4. Varronia lucay?.na ^Millsp. Field Mus. Bot. 2: 311. 1909. 



A much-bra;^ched shrub, 1-2 m. high, with terete branches, the young 

 twigs densely p/iiberulent. Leaves spatulate or narrowly obovate, thin, 2 cm. 

 long or less, etenate, repand or subentire, rounded or truncate at the apex, 

 euneate or na.rrowed at the base, puberulent and resinous-dotted on both sides, 

 the petioles "i-2 mm. long; flowers few, in terminal spikes 1-1.'5 cm. long, the 

 peduncles fi-20 mm. long; calyx eampanulate, its 5 teeth ovate-triangular; 

 coroUa wh'ite, about 5 mm. long, its 5 unequal lobes irregularly crenate; fila- 

 ments glabrous, borne near the top of the corolla-tube; drupe 2.5-3 mm. long. 



Rock'y plains, Acklin's Island, Mariguana, South Caicos, and Inagua. Endemic. 

 Bahama ^Vaekonia. 



3. BOUBRERIA P. Browne; Jacq. Enum. 2, 14. 1760. 



f^rubs or small trees, with alternate petioled entire leaves, and white 

 flowers in terminal corymb-like cymes. Calyx eampanulate, 2-5-lobed, the 

 lobpis valvate. Corolla salverform, the limb 5-lobed. Stamens 5, borne on the 

 co^^oUa-tube, the filaments filiform. Ovary sessile, 2-celled or incompletely 

 4-,'celled; styles 2-cleft or connate; stigmas flattened. Fruit a drupe, with thin 

 Mesh, inclosimg 4 bony nutlets ridged on the back. [Commemorates J. A. 

 jteeurer, a Nuremberg apothecary.] About 25 species of tropical America. Type 

 ' species: Bourreria succulenta Jacq. 



1. Bourreria ovata Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. IV. 3 : 203. 1869. 



A ^rjib or small tree up to 10 m. high or perhaps higher, with a trunk 

 sometimes 1.5 dm. in diameter, the bark reddish-brown, the twigs and leaves 

 glabrous or very slightly pubescent, or shoots from stumps sometimes with 

 pubescent foliage. Petioles rather stout, 4 em. long or less; leaves oblanceolate, 

 oval or nearly orbicular, 4—12 em. long, sub coriaceous, rounded or emarginate 

 at the apex, mostly narrowed at the base; cymes commonly many-flowered, 

 5-10 cm. broad; pedicels short; calyx 5-6 mm. long, irregularly 5-lobed; 

 corolla about 10 mm. long, its lobes nearly orbicular; styles connate; filaments 

 glabrous; drupe lOrange-red, 10-15 mm. in diameter, subglobose. 



Scrub-lands and coppices, throughout the archipelago from Abaeo and the Berry 

 Island's to Grand Turk, Inagua, the AngulUa Isles and' Cay Sal : — ^Florida ; Cuba. 



The species is composed of a number of races with the leaves varying from 

 oblanceolate to suborbicular ; the leaves are usually quite glabrous but those on 

 shoots from cut stumps are pubescent. The species is distinct from B. •tomentosa 

 (Lam.) Griseb. to which it has been referred by Grisebach and by DoUey; it was 

 referred to B. havanensis Miers, by Hitchcock and by Mrs. Northrop, and recorded by 

 Schoepf as Ehretia tinifoUa and E. Beureria. Catesby, 2 ; pi. 79. Closely related to 

 B. succulenta Jacq. Steong-eack. 



