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but to the second specimen, with cerasiform leaves, and named 
by him “ Ceraso ajjinis’^ ” for the dimensions he gives of the 
leaves of this “ Bastard Cherry ” are 2^ inches long, 1 inch 
broad, which agree Avith the second plant, but not at all w^ith 
the first. P. Browne’s description and drawing of this same 
species, above quoted, conforms in the size and shape of the 
leaves with Sloane’s second plant ; and it is manifest that 
Linmeus’s Ehretia tinifolia is identical with the same form, as 
he quotes Browne as his authority. Jacquin and SAvartz 
must have had the same plant in vieiv Avhen they gave 
more copious characters to the species. We have thus the 
true E. tinifolia identified in an unmistakable manner. 
It is described as a tree 16 to 20 feet high, groAving com- 
monly in the lowlands of the eastern portion of Jamaica ; its 
leaves are 2^-3|- inches long, 1-1| inch broad, on a someAA'hat 
slender petiole 2-3 lines long. In Linden’s plant the leaA’es 
are thin in texture, in Wright’s they are thicker in substance. 
The terminal panicle is 1^-2 inches long. 
2. Ehretia sidcata, nob.; — Ceraso aflfinis, Shane {in parte). 
Jam. ii. tab. 203. fig. 1 {non descript.)-, TrcAv, Ehr. t. 25; — 
ramulis crassioribus, teretibus, striatis, rubescentibus, gla- 
bris ; foliis oblongis aut ovato-oblongis, apice sensim an- 
gustioribus, obtusule acuminatis vel obtusis, canaliculatim 
recurvulis, imo rotundiusculis aut valde obtusis, in petiolo 
brevissime decurrentibus, ubique glaberrimis, coriaceis, su- 
pra pallide viridibus, ad costam latam neiwosque rubellos 
flavidosve sulcatis, in vetustioribus valleculatis, interspatiis 
tunc plus minusve conAmxis, marginibus integris vix reA’O- 
lutis, subtus concoloribus, neiwis prominentibus ; petiolo 
lato, crassiusculo, supra Amide sulcato, glabro, limbo 12-plo 
breviore ; panicula corymbosa, tenninali, ramosissima, ramis 
tenuibus, compressis, glabris. — In Antillis : v. s. in herh. 
Mus. Brit., Jamaica (in hb. Sloan, vol. Aui. fol. 5) ; in hort. 
Kew. cult.-, Jamaica (Houston); in herh. Hook., Jamaica 
(Piu’die), Cuba (LaSagra), ib. Havana (Glreene). 
In describing the preceding species, I have explained how 
this has been confounded Avith it. Its leaves are much larger, 
more coriaceous, broader, more rounded at base, have a much 
broader and reddish midrib, more distant and much more divari- 
cated ner\ms seated in holloAV furroAVS, often leaving the spaces 
between them very convex; the petiole is much broader, thicker, 
and more deeply channelled. The leaves are 3:^-5^ inches long, 
l|-3^ inches broad, on a petiole 4-5 lines long. TreAv figures 
separately a leaf from the older lower branches, Avhich is 
8 inches long and 4^ inches broad. 
