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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
(I)e Poiithieu) ; in herb. Hooh., St. Vincent (Guilding), 
Domenico (Imray, 127), Antigua (Nicholson). 
The Bourreria Domingensis of Dr. Grisebach (FI. Br. W. 
Ind. p. 482) is evidently a very different species, judging 
from his short character, in having a cyme terminated with 
glomerated sericeous flowers, a hoary calyx ; and from his de- 
scription of the leaves it appears to me to be my Crematomia 
attenuata ; this is confirmed by his citing as an example 
Dr. Alexander’s plant from Albion Pen, in Jamaica, which I 
have elsewhere described. 
The leaves in this species are inches long, Ij-lf inch 
broad, on a petiole 4-6 (rarely 7) lines long. The panicles, ter- 
minal upon the younger ultimate branchlets, are about 2 inches 
long ; and several of these often combine to make a large 
spreading corymb 5 inches long and broad ; the calyx is 
3 lines, the tube of the corolla 4 lines long, its lobes 3 lines 
in diameter ; the ovary and fruit in their construction conform 
with the generic character. 
3. Bourreria recurva^ nob. ; — Ehretia Bourreria, Desf. {non 
Linn.) Ann. Mus.\.21% : — ramulis compressis, glabris ; foliis 
late ovatis, naviculari-recurvis et canaliculatis, apice brevi 
obtusulo attenuatis, imo rotundatis, ineequilateris et in pe- 
tiolum subito brevissime decmTentibus, utrinque glabemmis, 
supra subnitidis, reticulatis, subtus paulo pallidioribus ; pe- 
tiole canaliculato, glabro, limbo 10-plo breviore : panicula 
terminali, a basi dichotoma, laxe et late expansa, ramis 
compressis, glabris ; calyce carnoso, acute 5-dentato, fusco,’ 
extus glabro, intus pallido et subpuberulo ; corollai tubo 
calyce paulo longiore, lobis rotundatis ; staminibus medio 
tubi insertis, cum costis totidem tubo adnatis continuis, ex- 
sertis ; stylo exserto, superne incrassato, valde dilatato, 2- 
sulcato, emarginato, indiviso, stigmatibus 2 distinctis sessi- 
libus terminato. — In Antillis : v. s. in herb. Hook., Prince 
-Rupert’s Head, ins. Domenico. 
A species differing from the two preceding in the very deeply 
channelled recurved leaves rounded at base, in its inflorescence, 
and particularly in the agglutinated divisions of the style. 
The axils are |-1 inch apart, the leaves 3^-4 inches long, 
l|-2j inches broad, on a slender petiole 4-5 lines long. The 
spreading panicle is 3 inches long, 5 inches broad ; the calyx 
is 3 lines long, the tube of the corolla 4 lines, the lobes 2 lines 
in diameter. 
4. Bourreria ovata, nob. ; — ramulis teretibus, violaceis, cinereo- 
glaucis, glabris ; foliis rotundato-ovatis aut oblongo-ovatis. 
