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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
trails, transversim compressa, sublibera, lamellis parallela, 
axi vacua, vasa nutritoria intra locellos emittens ; inde 4- 
loculare, 4-ovulata, ovulis summiim versus appensis. Stylus 
erectus, exsertus, apice breviter aut minime bifidus, stig- 
matibus 2 parvulis subclavatis terminatus. Drupa globosa, 
subcarnosa, calyce persistente circumdata, 2-pyrena, pyrenis 
2-locularibus, osseis, extus convexis, intus concavis, bine sub 
apice lateribus parvo loculum ingrediente utrinque 
perforatis, loculis 1-spermis. Semen teres, in quoque loculo 
e foramine appensum ; integumenta tenuissima, papyracea ; 
embryo in albumine parco rectus, teres, radicula supera. 
Arbusculas (ranws arbores) Neogece^plerumqueMexicance ; folia 
aJterna, oblonga^ Integra vel serrata, glabra aut tuberculato- 
scabrida^ petiolata: paniculse corymbosce^ multiramosce^ ter- 
minales : flores^arwf, albidi. 
1. Ehretia tinifoUa^ Linn. Amoen. v. 595, Syst. 192, p. 906, 
i. 309 ; Jacq. Ainer. 45 ; Sw. Obs. 87 ; Willd. Sp. i. 1077 ; 
DeCand. Prodr. ix. 503 ; — Ehretia arborea, P. Br. Jam. 
168, tab. 16. fig. 1 ; — Ceraso affinis {in parte), Shane, 
Jam. ii. 94 {nec icone ibi referta) ; — ramuhs tenuibus, te- 
retibus, glabris ; foliis ovato-ellipticis aut oblongis, utrin- 
que sensim angustatis, subacutis, aut obtusule acuminatis, 
imo obtusis, planis, glaberrimis, supra subnitidis, planis, 
reticulatim nervosis, submembranaceis aut crassioribus, 
subtus pallidioribus, nervis tenuibus paulo prominulis, in 
ramis infimis niulto majoribus et semper planis ; petiolo 
subtenui, sulcato, glabro, limbo 14-plo breviore : panicula 
terminali, ramosa, multidivisa, ramulis tenerrimis, compressis, 
glabris, ssepe laxe expansis ; floribus parvis, albidis. — In 
Antillis : v. s. in herh. Mus. Brit., Jamaica (Sloan, lib. vol. vii. 
fob 6 cum icone ex vivo, specim. typ.); Jamaica (P. Browne); 
ib. (Sliakespear) ; Cuba (Linden, 1983) ; in herb. Hook., 
Cuba (Wright, 1360, 1366). 
All botanists have referred to Sloane as the earliest au- 
thority for this species, and the typical plant in his herba- 
rium confirms this ; but they have all overlooked the fact 
that Sloane collected two species, which are still preserved, 
one in fob 5, the other in fob 6, of his herbarium : the latter is 
accompanied by his own coloured drawing, taken “ ex vivo,” 
in fruit ; but the plant corresponding with it is in floiver. 
When Sloane published his work, he gave a figure in pb 203. 
fig. 1, which is an exact tracing from his first specimen ; but 
he added to it the fructiferous raceme, copied from his di-awing, 
which does not exist in the specimen. It is evident, however, 
that his description in vol. ii. p. 94 does not refer to the first. 
