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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
in axisistenset fibros nutritoriosintra loculos emittens. Stylus 
teres, longiuscule exsertus, apice breviter bi- (rarius tri-)fidus, 
ramis stigmate peltato singulatim clavatis, Drupa carnosa, 
globosa, 4-pyrena ; pyrena intus angulata, extus convexa, 
bigeminatim per paria materiel placentari laxe adhterentes, 
dorso oblique spongioso-cellulosa et reticulato-favosa, aliter 
ossea, 1-loculares, singulatim latere unico (invicem dextro et 
sinistro) locello spurio infossata, loculo vero circum spurium 
paulo curvato, 1-spermo. Semen loculum implens, cylin- 
dricum, teres, paulo curvatum, juxta locellum spurium 
puncto medio appensum : integumenta tenuia, raphe lineari 
ab hilo ad chalazam basalem descendente notata : embryo in 
alhumini subamplo carnoso semianatropus et paulo cur- 
vatus, radicula tereti, supera, cotyledonibus Eequilatis sub- 
compressis hilo parallelis asquilonga. 
Arbores et arbusculas ramosi^ in America intertropicali et in 
Antillis indigeni; folia alterna^ ohlonga vel ohovata, integra, 
petiolata: paniculae corymhoscBj terminales^ dichotome ra- 
mosce; mediocres^ albidi ; dji'opss.aurantiaccevel ruhrce, 
nitidce. 
1. Bourreria [Beurreria) succulenta, Jacq. Amer. 44 ; Obs. 2, 
tab. 26; Gaertn. iii. 170, tab. 212 (non Griseb.) ; — Bom-reria 
arborea, Browne^ Jam. 168, tab. 15. fig. 2 ; Ehretia Bour- 
reria, Linn. Syst. iii. 936 ; Lam. Diet. i. 527 ; DC. Prodr. 
ix. 506 ; — Cordia Bourreria, Linn. Amoen. v. 395 ; — Jasmi- 
num periclymenifolium, Sloane^ Jam. ii. 96, tab. 204. fig. 1 ; 
i?ay, Dendr. 63 ; — ramuHs teretibus, subangulatis, tenui- 
bus, glabris ; foliis obovato-oblongis aut ovatis, imo cuneatis, 
apice rotundatis vel obtusis, glabris, supra nitidis, ad nervos 
sulcatis, subtus jiallidioribus, flavidiusculis, nervis paulo 
prominulis, margine subundulatis ; petiolo canaliculato, 
limbo S-lO-plo breviore : racemis apud ramulos ultimos 
novellos paucifoliosos terminalibus, brevibus, foliis delapsis 
deinde corymbum laxiusculum mentientibus, bracliiis com- 
pressis, glabris ; calyce tubuloso, crasso, glabeivimo, acute 
semi-5-fido, dentibus margine tomentosis ; corollje tubo ca- 
lyce paulo longiore, limbi lobis oblongis, expansis ; stami- 
nibus paulo exsertis ; drupa globosa, carnosa, crocea, piso 
majore, 4-pyrena. — In Antillis : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit., 
Jamaica (specim. typ. in hb. Sloan, vol. vii. fol. 36, planta 
superior) ; Jamaica (Dr. Wright). 
Many plants have been confounded with this species, the 
type of which exists in Sloane’s herbarium ; and, as no doubt 
can be raised concerning it, I have reformed its specific cha- 
racter from the original. It is described by Sloane and Browne 
