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as a tree from 14 to 20 feet high, growing in the lowlands of 
Jamaica. The leaves are 2^ inches long, 1| inch broad, on a 
petiole 3-4 lines long ; the racemes, teiTninal on the young- 
branches, seldom exceed an inch in length ; but as the leaves 
fall off, the inflorescence assumes the appearance of a more 
extended irregular corymb ; the flowers are white, upon very 
short pedicels ; the calyx is fleshy, 3 lines long, glabrous out- 
side, pubescent within the teeth, which are tonientose on the 
margins ; the tube of the corolla is 5 lines long, the lobes of 
the border 3 lines long ; the subulate filaments are inserted 
above the base of the tube and extend beyond its mouth, the 
anthers are versatile, attached in the sinus of their divergent 
base. The placentation of the ovary and the sti’ucture of the 
fruit accord with the above generic character ; the drupes, of 
a saffron-colour, are 3 lines in diameter. 
The plant described by Desfontaines under the name of 
Ehretia Bourreria corresponds with my B. recurva^ agreeing 
in the size and shape of its leaves, its inflorescence, and the 
peculiar form of the style. Jacquin’s description embraces 
more than one species. The Bourreria succulenta, Grisebach 
(non Jacq.), Cat. PI. Cub. p. 209, refers to two very different 
plants (both, Wright, 3119), described by him as flowering 
and fructiferous examples of this species : the former is a spe- 
cies closely allied to Patagonula^ the latter is my Bourreria 
clariuscula. 
2. Bourreria Domingensis, nob. (non Griseb.) ; — Ehretia Do- 
mingensis, D C. Prodr. ix. 508 ; — ramulis subangularibus, 
striatis, glabris ; foliis oblongis aut oblongo-ellipticis, inio 
obtuse angustioribus, apice subacutis vel repente obtuse 
acuminatis, planis vel paulo navicularibus, supra nitidis, 
nervis tenuibus immersis, reticulatis, urtinque glaberrimis 
(nisi costa mediana superne sulcata et pilosula), subtus 
fulvo-glaucis, costa nervisque nitidis, rubescentibus, promi- 
nulis, in nervo marginali vix revolutis ; petiolo tenui, supra 
canaliculato, glabro, rubello, margine ciliato, limbo 9-plo 
breviore : panicula corymbosa, terminali, laxe repetitim ra- 
mosa, ramis bracteatis, ramulisque angulato-compressis, 
glabris ; floribus brevissime pedicellatis ; calyce extus glabro, 
ad medium 5-fido, dentibus acutis, intus pubescentibus ; 
corollie tubo calyce vix longiore, laciniis ovatis, extus 
tomentellis, patentibus ; filamentis tenuibus, sub faucem 
enatis, cum costis totidem tubo decuiTentibus continuis, ex- 
sertis ; ovario disco insito, conico-oblongo, striato ; stylo 
tereti, apice breviter bifido ; drupa globosa, 4-pyrena. — In 
Antillis ; v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit., in ins. Carib. (Ryan), 
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