484 BORAGINEJ;. 



Hab. Jamaica \, Pd., Al., WullscU. (a) ; Antigua !, WuUsehl. (a), Montserrat !, West 

 (7), Dominica 1, Imr. (fi), Barbadoes ; Trinidad I, Sieb., Or. (a) ; [Cnba ! and Mexico I to 

 Brazil !]. 



35. T. staminea, Gr. {n.sp.). Leaves glabrous or dotted vrith prominnlous points, 

 leathery, elliptical-oblong or eUiptical-lanceolate, with a, bluntish point, tapering into the 

 petiole : primary veins h-l-jtigal ; spilces long, recurved, 2-4-fid ; corolla-tube slightly 

 puberulous or glabrescent, clavate-cylindrical, thrice as long as the calyx : lobes roundish, 

 blunt ; anthers oblong, with their point exserted ; drupe ovate-globose, contracted at the 

 suture, glabrous. — A shrub, distinguished by the longer anthers and larger drupes, while in 



^ aU the foregoing Pittoniee the anthers are roundish, and deeply included ; leaves 6"-4", 

 spike-divisions 6"-2" long ; calyx-segments deltoid, glabrescent ; coroUa-tube 2"' long ; 

 anthers 1'" long, subsessile, inserted into the middle of the tube ; drupe 2J'" long. — Hab. 

 Jamaica !, Pd., Al., March, in the mountains, Dolphin's peak ; [Haiti I]. 



Sect. 3. Messeesohmidia, Kth. {non, L., non A. DC). — Drupe 4i(-V)-pyrenous, divided 

 into as many lobes as there are \-seeded pyrence. Embryo curved. — Anthers connivent, 

 vrith their points cohering ; drupes shortly pedicellate, distant. 



In all our species there occur monstrous, tomentose drupes, even in species of which 



the normal ones are glabrous : a similar monstrosity (figured in Miq. Sunn. t. 41) has led 



^ Miquel to consider his T. syringifolia and T. lawifolia to be Pittonia : the former, though 



unknown to me, from its pedicellate drupes, is a Messerschmidia, distinguished only by 



minute characters from T. laurifolia. 



36. T. laurifolia, Vent. Leaves glabrous or glabrescent, at length dotted with 

 roughish points beneath, ovate or elliptical, pointed, petioled ; spikes diverging, corymbose ; 

 corolla-tube slender, puberulous or pubescent, 4-3 (-6) times as long as the calyx : lobes 

 subulate : anthers oblong, with their connivent points exserted, inserted below the corolla- 

 throat; drupe 3-4(-l)-lobed, glabrous. — Vent. Choix, i. 2. — T. syringifolia, Y. in PI. 

 ByanI, Berter.l {non Miq.). T. Sagrseana and surinameusis, A. DC.—-K twining herb, 

 variable in the down, the size of the calyx, its segments ovate or lanceolate, and the breadth 

 of the subulate corolla-lobes ; leaves 3"-l", coroUa-tube 2"'-3"' long : lobes one-third to 

 one-fourth as long as the tube. — Hab. Jamaica !, Al., March ; Trinidad I, Cr., Lockh. ; 

 [Cuba ! and Panama i to eqnat. Brazil ! and Guiana I] . 



37. T. Tolubilis, i. Leaves hispidulous (or glabrate) above, glabrate or puberulous 

 / beneath, ovate or oblong, petioled; spikes slender, corymbose; corolla-tube puberulous, 



thrice as long as the calyx, nearly as long as the linear-filiform lobes ; anthers ovate, 

 pointleted, included, inserted below the coroUa-throat ; drupes 4 (-2) -globose, glabrous. — 

 SI, 1. 143./. 2. — ^A twining, variable shrub ; leaves 3"-l" (-^"), corolla-tube 1"' long. 



a. Leaves 3"-l" long, pointed. — T. punctata, Spreng. (ex Sieb'. Mart. 63 !). 



(8. mierophylla, Desv. Leaves small, l"-6"' (-4'") long, blunt. 



Hab. Bahamas I, Sieains., Jamaica !, Pd., Al, (o) ; Antigua I, Wullschl. (0), S. Lucia 1, 

 S. Vincent I, Guild., Barbadoes!, Lane; [S. Thomas! to French islands! ; Venezuela! to 

 Brazil!]. 



38. T. caribsea, Gr. Leaves hispidMlous on both sides, ovate-oblong or ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate or pointleted, petioled ; spikes slender, corymbose ; corolla-tube pu- 

 bescent, thrice as long as the calyx, nearly twice as long as the linear-filiform lobes; 

 anthers ovate, pointleted, included, inserted below the corolla-throat ; drupe 4(-2)-globose, 

 strigose ; calyx pxcresoent. — T. psilostachya j8, DO, {exclus, synon,) : the allied T, psilo- 

 stachya, Kth. (y. strigosa, Anders. I) has glabrous drupes. — A twining shrub; leaves 

 4"-li", corolla-tube 1'" long.— Hab. Dominica !, Imr, ; Trinidad !, Sieb, Tr, 243. 



39. T. ferruginea, Lam, Leaves hispidulous or pubescent on both sides, or glabrate 

 ^ above, ovate-lanceolate, ovate or. oblong, pointed, petioled; spikes slender, corymbose; 



corolla-tube pubescent, about twice as long as the calyx and as the linear-filiform lobes ; 

 anthers ovate-oblong, pointleted, included, inserted below the corolla-throat ; drupe 4(-l)- 

 globose, glabrous.— T. miprophylla, Berter, ,' T. volubilis j3, 7, ' DC, T. membrauacea, 

 DC, (ex specim, Gardner), — A scandent, variable shrub, with pubescent branchlets ; leaves 

 l"-34", corolla-tube I4'" long.— Hab, Jamaica !, Al,, March, Wullschl. ; [Cuba I and 

 Mexico! to Brazil!]. 



