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vary from f to 2^ inches long, 7-12 lines broad, on a petiole 
2-3 lines long ; in Wright’s specimen they are paler, more 
pointed, and more glabrous ; the panicle is 1 inch long, nuth 
dichotomous branchlets 2-3 lines long ; the calyx is 3 lines long, 
the tube of the coroUa 4^ lines ; the drupe 3 lines in diameter*. 
11. Bourreria cassinifolia, Griseb. PI. Wright. Cub. 528; — 
Ehretia cassinifolia, A. Bich. in La Sagra FI. Cuh. ii. 113; 
Walp. Ann. v. 541 ; — ramis s*pius glabris, ramulis vix 
pilosulis ; foliis parvulis, ssepius obovatis, obtusis aut sub- 
acutis, imo angustioribus, marginibus apiceque revolutis, 
crassis, coriaceis, utrinque glaberrimis, supra canaliculatis, 
nitentibus, nends immersis, subtus pallidioribus ; petiolo 
glabro, limbo 10-plo breviore; panicula terminali, sub- 
dichotome ramosa, paucitlora, saepius 3-5-flora ; calyce mi- 
nute puberulo, acute 5-dentato, extus subsericeo, dentibus 
intus puberulis ; corollae tubo calyce paulo longiore, lobis 
oblongis, rotundatis ; staminibus paulo exsertis ; stylo bre- 
vissime bifldo ; drupa piso minore, globosa, 4-pp-ena, py- 
renibus generis. — In Antillis : v. s. in herb. Mas. Brit., Cuba 
(Wright, 3125). 
A very distinct species, which is stated by Dr. Grisebacli to 
resemble B. Domingensis in many characters ; it is difficult, 
however, to conceive any two plants to be more unlike, the 
leaves here being at least twenty times as small, with a very 
different inflorescence. The plant has the appearance of 
a small Gaylussacia, with striated rugulose branches, the 
younger ones of a reddish hue, with axils 1-4 lines apart ; the 
leaves are only 4—6 lines long, 2^-3 lines broad, on a petiole 
^ line long ; the panicle is | inch long, sometimes reduced to 
a solitary flower ; the calyx is 2| lines long, the tube of the 
corolla 3 lines, its lobes 2 lines long ; the drupe is 2 lines in 
diameter. 
12. Bourreria divaricata, Don, Diet. iv. 389 ; Griseb. PI. 
Wright. Cub. 528; Cat. PI. Cub. 210; — Ehretia divari- 
cata, DC. Cat. Monsp. 108, Prodr. ix. 506; — Ehretia 
spinifex, Griseb. {non R. & Sch.) PL Wright. Cub. 528 ; — 
Ehretia montana, Griseb. loc. cit. 528 ; — Ehretia acantho- 
phora, DC. Prodr. ix. 510; — fruticosa, ramulis nodosis, 
cinereis, divaricatissimis ; foliis subfasciculatis, spathulato- 
oblongis, obtusis, subcoriaceis, supra nitentibus, in costa 
sulcatis, nervis tenuibus, divaricatis, intra marginem ar- 
cuatim nexis, albo tuberculatis et aspere scabridis, margiiii- 
bus valde revolutis, subtus glaucis, pubescentibus, in nervis 
* This species, with analytical details, is shown in Plate 86. 
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