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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
pilosulis ; petiolo tomentoso, limbo 10-12-plo breviore : 
corymbis racemosis, terminalibus, paucifloris ; calyce o- 
dentato, dealbato, extus sericeo, intus sparse puberulo ; co- 
rollm tubo cylindricOj calyce dimidio longiore ; staminibus 
medio tiibi insertis, brevibus, vix exsertis ; stylo brevissime 
bifido ; drupa globosa, aurantiaca vel rubra, 4-pyrena, py- 
renibus generis. — In Antillis ; v. s. in herb. Mus.Brit.^Gviha.^ 
circa Havanam et Monte Verde (Wright, 3136) ; in herb. 
Hook., Cuba, Monte Verde (Wright, 1365). 
A L^cium-\ike shrub, 2 to 5 feet high, with rigid spreading 
branches ; the leaves are fasciculated in each prominent node, 
•5-7 lines long, 1^-2 lines broad, tapering into a petiole ^ line 
long ; the terminal raceme is less than 1 inch long, with from 
four to six alternate flowers on short pedicels ; the calyx is 
1^ line long, the tube of the corolla 2 lines, the lobes 2 lines 
long ; the drupe is 3 lines in diameter. 
This plant is strangely complicated by Dr. Grisebach, at 
different dates, with his Bourreria spinifex and B. montana, 
as will be presently shown, which renders the synonyms dif- 
ficult of explanation. 
13. Bourreria spinifex, nob. (non Griseb.) ; — Bourreria diva- 
ricata, Griseb. [non Don) Cat. PI. Cub. 210 ; — Ehretia spini- 
fex, R. & Sck. iv. 805 ; D C. Prodr. ix. 506 ; — ramis diver- 
gentibus, teretibus, ramulis in apice ramorum proximis, 
glabris, axillis spinuloso-cupularibus ; foliis oblongis, apice 
obtusissimis aut rotundatis, imo obtusis, coriaceis, convexis, 
in costa valde sulcatis, nervis paucis immersis, arcuatim 
nexis, marginibus valde revolutis, supra nitentibus, tuber- 
cidis albis exasperatis, scabrido-pilosis, subtus fusco-opacis, 
subglabris, nervis prominentibus ; petiolo glabro, limbo 8- 
plo breviore : racemis terminalibus, brevibus, sub-3-floris ; 
calyce glabro, acute 5-dentato ; corollm tubo cylindrico, ca- 
lyce duplo longiore, lobis oblongis, patentibus ; stylo bre- 
viter bifido ; drupa globosa. — In Antillis : v. s. in herb. Mus. 
Brit., Cuba (Wright, 3118, sub nom. B. divaricata). 
This plant quite agrees with the characters given by Eomer 
and Schulz to their Ehretia spinifex. Dr. Grisebach, in 
1862, referred a Cuban plant to this species, under the name 
of Bourreria spinifex, quoting the synonym of those botanists ; 
but in 1866 he converted this same plant (Wright, 3123) into 
a new species, B. montana, which he pronounced to be distinct 
from Bbmer and Schulz’s species ; and at the same time he 
referred Wright’s plants 1365, 3118, and 3136 to his Bourreria 
divaricata (not Don’s), and synonymous with AAreifa spinifex, 
