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with white flowers in open terminal cymes. Lobes of the style not rarely coales- 

 ced even to the stigma. — Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. ii. 840, excl. syn. Hymen- 

 esthes, Miers, which is a Cordia. Bourreria & Crematomia, Miers, Bot. Contrib- 

 ii. 230, 242. 



B. Havanensis, Miers. Shrub or small tree, glabrous or nearly so : leaves mostly 

 obovate-oblong and acute at base (about 2 inches in length), bright green and shining 

 above, coriaceous, entire : cyme loose : calyx at length campanulate, glabrous or puberu- 

 lent, a little shorter than the tube of the corolla : style cleft only at the apex, or even quite 

 entire: drupe as large as a pea, orange. — Bot. Contrib. ii. 238, t. 30 (Ehretia Havanensis, 

 Willd.), with B. recurva & B. ovata, Miers, 1. c. B. tomentosa, var. Hauanensis, Griseb. 

 (Ehretia tomentosa, Lam.), is probably a pubescent form of the same species. Pittonia similis, 

 Catesb. Car. ii. t. 79. Eliretia Beurreria, Chapm. Fl. 329, not L. (the B. succulenta, Jacq.). — 

 Keys of Florida, Blodgett, &c, a glabrous and smooth form. (W. Ind.) 



Var. radula. Upper face of the leaves tuberculate-scabrous or hispidulous from 

 papillosities, the lower and the branchlets either glabrous or minutely pubescent. — 

 B. radula, Don, Syst. iv. 390 ; Chapm. 1. c. ; Miers, 1. c. B. virgata, Griseb., not Swartz, ex 

 Miers. Eliretia radula, Poir., ex Miers. — Keys of Florida, Blodgett, Palmer, &c. (W. Ind.) 



3. EHRETIA, L. ( George Dionysius Ehret, a gifted botanical painter of 

 the 18th century.) — Trees or shrubs, chiefly tropical; with small white flowers 

 in open cymes or panicles, or rarely almost solitary. — Benth. & Hook. 1. c. 



E. elliptica, DC. Tree 15 to 50 feet high : leaves oval or oblong, sometimes serrate, 

 nearly smooth and glabrous or (with the branchlets and open cymes) minutely hirsute-pu- 

 bescent and the upper face very scabrous : divisions of the calyx broadly lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, as long as the campanulate tube of the corolla : drupes yellow, globose, of the 

 size of small peas (the thin pulp edible). — Prodr. ix. 503; Torr. Mex. Bound. 136 ; Miers, 

 Contrib. ii. 228, t. 85. — River-bottoms South-western Texas, Berlandier, Lindheimer, &c. 

 (Adjacent Mex.) 



4. COLDENIA, L. (Br. Cadwallader Golden, Colonial Lieut.-Governor 

 of New York, a correspondent of Linnaeus.) — Low herbaceous or suffrutescent 

 plants, canescent or hispid ; with small and mostly white flowers sessile and 

 usually in clusters; the original species a prostrate annual, with usually 4-merous 

 flowers and coarsely toothed leaves, the strong simple veins of which run to the 

 sinuses. (Lam. 111. t. 89 ; Gajrtn. Fruct. t. 68, embryo wrongly figured.) Genus 

 extended by the addition of several North and W. South American species, 

 diverse in habit and minor characters, which might well form more than half as 

 many subgenera as there are species, but may be ranked under three. (Insertion 

 of stamens probably both high and low in the same species.) — Gray, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. v. 340, viii. 292, x. 48, & Bot. Calif, i. 520 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 841. 



§1. Edcoldenia, Benth. Fruit merely 4-sulcate ; the nutlets with plane 

 contiguous sides and thick crustaceous walls, or in one species reduced by abortion 

 to a single cell : corolla not appendaged within : stamens equally inserted : veins 

 of the leaves straight and simple. — Steynocarpus & Ptilocalyx, Torr. 



C. canescens, DC. Prostrate or procumbent, with somewhat ligneous perennial base, 

 white-sericeous or tomentose : leaves (barely half inch long) ovate or oblong, entire, petioled, 

 obscurely veined : flowers solitary or in small clusters at the axils or forks : calyx-lobes 

 linear-lanceolate : fruit depressed-globose ; the four thick-walled nutlets smooth and rounded 

 on the back, obscurely rugose on the plane sides, pointless: embryo slightly curved. — 

 Prodr. ix. 559 (§ Stegnocarpus) ; Gray, 1. c. Slegnocarpus canescens, Torr. Pacif. R. Rep. 

 ii. 169, t. 7. — S. Texas to Arizona, Berlandier, Wright, &e. (Adjacent Mex.) 



