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apice suborbiculatis, imo breviter acutis aut obtusis, ssepe 
insequilateris, planis, utrinque glabemmis et valde opacis, 
nervis tenuibus venisque reticulatis subimmersis, fusco- 
viridibus, subtus paulo pallidioribus, nervis vix prominulis, 
nitentibus ; petiolo tenuissimo, canaliculato, recto, limbo 
4-plo breviore : panicula corymbosa, terminali, dichotome 
divisa, ramis interdum 1-foliolosis, ramulisque tenuibus, 
compressis, glabris ; floribus brevissime pedicellatis ; calyce 
obconico, crassiusculo, glabro, dentibus intus velutinis ; 
corollae tubo calyce paulo longiore, crassiusculo, lobis ro- 
tundato-oblongis, paulo brevioribus ; staminibus medio tubi 
insertis, paulo exsertis ; stylo breviter bifido. — In Antillis ; 
V. s. in herb. Mtis. Brit.^ Bahamas (exhort. Cliff.) ; in herb. 
Hook.., Bahamas (anon.), Jamaica (Wilson). 
The axils are ^-1 inch apart ; the leaves are 2-2| inches 
long, 1:^1 f inch broad, on a stiff slender petiole 6-9 lines 
long. The terminal panicle is 3 inches long, much divided ; 
the pedicels are ^ line long, the calyx 3 lines, the tube of the 
corolla 4 lines, the lobes 3 lines long ; the anther-cases are 
rugose and subcoriaceous. 
5. Bourreria clariuscula, nob. ; — Bourreria succulenta, Griseb. 
{non Jacq.), Flor. Cub. 209; — ramulis subangulatis, sub- 
nitidis, glabris ; foliis late ovatis, apice rotundatis, brevis- 
sime acuminatis vel emarginatis, imo petiolum versus ob- 
tusato-attenuatis, subinsequilateris, coriaceis, glaberrimis, 
supra Igete viridibus, nitidis, valde reticulatis, subtus pal- 
lidioribus, nervis divaricatis, arcuatim nexis, glaucis, pro- 
minentibus ; petiolo canaliculato, glabro, limbo 8-plo bre- 
viore : paniculis in ramulis alaribus terminalibus, dichotome 
ramosis, ramis compressis, glabris, paucifloris ; calyce co- 
riaceo, glabro, 5-dentato, inaequaliter rupto ; corollge tubo 
calyce 8equilongo,lobos oblongos aequante; drupa pisomajore, 
4-pyrena ; pyrenibus generis. — In Cuba : v. s. in herb. Mus. 
Brit., Cuba (Wright, 3119). 
As previously mentioned [supra, p. 233), Prof. Grisebach 
has confounded, under the same name and number of Wright’s 
plants, this and another (a species near Patagonula) ; but 
neither of them have the smallest resemblance to Bourreria 
succulenta of Jacquin, to which he referred them : the above 
plant has much broader, far more coriaceous, more reticulated, 
brighter, and more shining leaves, upon stouter petioles ; they 
are 2-2 J inches long, 1|-2|^ inches broad, on a petiole 2-3 lines 
long ; the coiymb is inches long, its peduncle 1| inch long, 
the branches 3-6 lines long ; the calyx is 3 lines long, the 
drupe 4 lines in diameter. 
