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1. Harrera gerascanthoides. Showy Har- 
rera. 
Arborescent, branchlets slightly compressed 
furfuraceo-tomentose with minute stellated hairs, 
leaves elliptico-lanceolate attenuato-acuminate 
3-nerved sub-entire, glabrous above, minutely 
stellato-tomentose and paler beneath, panicle 
cymose terminal, stamens 10, berry 3-celled. 
11 A B Port Royal Mountains. Salt Hill. — Near Dove 
Hall, Dr. Alexander . 
F L. September. 
A tree nearly 20 feet in height : branches spreading, 
terete, ash-coloured, townrds the extremity minutely fur- 
furaceo-tomentose. Leaves opposite, sometimes alter- 
nate, petiolate, ovato-lanceolate, attenuato-acuminate, 
rounded at the base, entire, 3-nerved besides an obscure 
marginal pair, glabrous and green above, albido- 
stellato-tomentulose and farinose beneath, 3.V to 4jj 
inches in length, and an inch and a half in breadth : 
petiole terete, nearly an inch in length. Racemes cymose, 
terminal, erect : peduncle compressed, tetragonal, mi- 
nutely stellato-puberulous : divisions opposite, decussating. 
Flowers large, white, showy, shortly pedicelled. Calvx 
externally stellato-puberulous : tube produced, funnel- 
shaped ; limb spreading, with 5-4 indistinct and blunt 
green teeth placed on the outside ; throat furnished with 
a membrane, on which the petals and stamens are in- 
serted, forming as it were a pentangular disk with the 
centre open. Petals 5, rarely 4, somewhat contorted, 
obovate, rounded at the apex. Stamens 10, decimate in a 
direction opposite to that of the style : anthers lanceolate, 
acute, one-pored, slightly auriculated at the base. Ovary 
umbilicated: style tinged with crimson, longer than the 
stamens, decimate and somewhat curved. Berry size of 
a large pea, black, crowned with the calyx, 3-celled ; 
seeds”vedge-shaped, angular, marked with a crimson line 
(the hilum) on one side. 
The liowers of this species bearing some resemblance 
at a distance to those of the Spanish Elm, cordia geras- 
canthoides, has induced to apply to this its specific de- 
signation. As in it, the corolla is marescent ; and the 
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