480 BORAGINE*. 



a narrower calyx and different drapes j leaves 18"-6", petiole 6"'-8"', calyx 3'", reddish {SI.) 

 drupes 5'" long. — Hab. Jamaica !, M., March, in all inland woods. 



13. C. sulcata, DC Branchlets salcate, rusty-villous ; leaves larffe, ovate-oblong or 

 ovate, pointed, subcordate or rounded at the base, re'parcd-erttire, strigulose-scabrous above, 

 rusty-sericeous, at length tomentose-pubescent on the prominent network of veins beneath ; 

 panicle expanded : flowers shortly gyrate, approximate, sessile ; calyx obovate, rusty- 

 pubescent, smooth, 3-6-dentate ; corolla-lobes ovate-oblong, blunt, half as long as the tube ; 

 stamens short ; drupe globose, mucronate. — C. macrophylla, V. I C. Toqueve, Sieb. 

 Mart. 59.!— A high tree; leaves 12"-4", petiole 6"'-2"', calyx 2'", white drupes 2i"'-3"' 

 diam. — Hab. Jamaica !, Mac/. ; Antigua !, Wullschl., Dominica !, Finl., Imr., S. Lucia !, 

 Anders. ; [Cuba ! to French islands !]. 



14. C. salvifolia, BG. Branchlets scabrous ; leaves ovate-lanceolate (or ovate), acu- 

 minate with a* bluntish point, serrate above the base, hispid-tubercled above with the hairs 

 thickened at the base, pubescent or velvety beneath ; terminal cyme corymbiform : flowers 

 shortly gyrate, approximate, sessile ; calyx obovate-globose, hoary strigose, 4(-5)-dentate, 

 half as long as the corolla-tube ; corolla-lobes 4—5, roundish, one-fourth as long as the 

 tube, recurved ; stamens short, pilose below ; drupe ovoid-globose, almost included by the 

 calyx. — C. Berterii, Spreng. in PI. Berter. Varronia curassavica, Berter. I — A shrub ; 

 leaves 4"-2" (-6"), calyx V"-\\"', red drupe 2'" long.— Hab. Antigua!, Wullschl.;, 

 [Haiti !, Guadeloupe !, in calcareous hills]. 



** Flowers glomerate : peduncles axillary or divided. 



15. C. ulmifolia, /«««. Branchlets pubescent or velvety; ^raw* ovate or ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, sharply serrulate above the base, scabrous above, velvety or pubescent 

 beneath ; glomerules peduncled : peduncles axillary, adnate to the petiole at the base, or 

 racemose ; calyx ovoid, strigose, 5-deutate, half as long as the infundibular, 5-crenate 

 corolla ; stamens glabrous, subincluded ; drupe smaU, ovate, blunt, almost included by the 

 calyx. — SI. t. 194./'. 3. — Varronia Uneata, L. {non Sw.). V. monosperma, Jacg., Sieb. 

 Mart. 61. C. Salzmanni, DC. in PI. Spruce. C. patens, Miq. {jion Kth.).' — ^Variable in 

 the down, the leaves, the number of their serratures, and the inflorescence. A shrub, 6'-.l5' 

 high ; leaves 2"-4", calyx 1 i"' long ; size of the long-peduncled glomerules usually like a 

 pea. — Hab. Jamaica !, Wils., common, in rocky soil ; Dominica !, Imr., S. Vincent !, 

 Chiild. ; Trinidad !, Sieb. Tr. 185 ; [Cuba ! and Panama ! to Brazil ! and Peru !]. 



*** Flowers sessile in a single spike, centrifugal, 



16. C. cylindristachya, B. S. Scabrous; leaves oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, 

 serrate or serrulate-repand, pubescent or hoary with minute down beneath : petiole jointed 

 at the base; spiies terminal; calyx globose or obovate-globose: teeth- deltoid ; corolla, 



' infundibular, twice as long as the calyx ; lobes short, r^'^nciish ; drupe ovoid, ovate or sub- 

 globose. — E. P. PI. Peruv. t. 147. a. — ^ Varronia macrostachya, PL. P. V. curassavica, Sw. 

 \non Jacg.) : Oordia Fresen. {non B, .S.) . — A shrub, 4'-6' high ; leaves 2"-3", calyx 1'" long ; 

 drupe red. 



a. Spike contiguous ; calyx adpressed-pubescent ; drupe ovate-subglobose, blunt, subin- 

 cluded. C. portoricensis, Spreng. 



0. floribunda, Spreng. S^ke contiguous ; calyx hirsute with spreading down ; drupe 

 ovate, mucronulate-truncate, subincluded. — C. salvifolia, Eth. {non JDC). 



•y. interrupta, DC. Spike slender, often interrupted at the base ; calyx glabrescent ; 

 drupe ovate, mucronate-truucate, exserted. — C. martinicensis, Sieb. Tr. 42. {non R. S.). 



S. graveolens, Kth., Benth. PI. Spruce. Spike slender, often interrupted ; calyx slightly 

 adpressed-puberulous ; drupe globose, included. — C. bahiensis, 2)0. / .- a less hairy form. 



€. cinerascens, BO. Spike slender, often interrupted; calyx pubescent; drupe ovate- 

 subglobose, blunt, shortly exserted. 



Hab. Jamaica !, all coU. (a very common ; ^3, S, e) ; Dominica 1, Imr. (c), S. Vincent !, 

 Guild., (7) ; Ti-inidad !, Sieb., Lockh. (y) ; [Lower California I to Uruguay !]. 



17. C. martinicensis^ B. S. Scabrous ; leaves ovate, acuminate, serrate, pubescent 

 beneath : petiole jointed at the base ; spikes terminal, contiguous ; calyx obovoid-globose, 

 pubescent : teeth subulate, distinct from the beginning ; corolla infundibular, shortly 



