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R.& Sell. : I have showm the latter corresponds with Wright’s 
3118, while 1365 (in parte) and 3136 belong to Don’s B. di- 
varicata. Here is a sad confusion, which runs alike through 
most of the determinations of Dr. Grisebach in this family, all 
which have been made incautiously and in too much haste. 
This is a small shrub, with numerous divaricating branches, 
which soon become bare and rugose from the decadence of the 
leaves, the axils becoming somewhat spiniform ; the leaves, 
solitary on each alternate node, are 8-10 lines long, 3-5 lineo 
broad, on a petiole 1-1 1 line long. The British-Musemu 
specimen has only a single flower, the others probably having 
fallen away ; its calyx is 3 lines long, the tulie of the corolla 
5 lines, the lobes 2^ lines long. 
14. Bourreria microphylla^ Griseb. Cat. PL Cub. 210 ; — 
ramulis tenuibus, teretibus, cinerascentibus, striatellis, gia- 
bris ; foliis minimis, patentibus vel recurvis, ovalibus vel 
suborbicularibus, coriaceis, valde convexis, supra profunde 
viridibus, tuberculis piliferis albis magnis exasperatis, mar- 
ginibus valde revolutis, subtus flavescentibus et pulveru- 
lento-glaucis ; petiolo pubescente, limbo 12-plo breviore : 
racemis terminalibus, paucifloris ; calyce subsericeo, 5-den- 
tato ; corollse tubo calycem sequante, lobis rotundatis sequi- 
longis. — In Antillis in savannis : v. s. in herh. Mus. Brit., 
Cuba (Wright, 1365 in parte). 
This specimen bears a ticket referring it, on the authority 
of Dr. Grisebach, to his Bourreria virgata, a veiy ditferent 
plant ; but it corresponds with his Bourreria microphylla. It 
is a shrub 4 feet high, with spreading branches, and branch- 
lets about 3 inches long, with axils 1-3 lines apart, bearing 
solitary leaves 1^-3 lines long, 1-2 lines broad, on a petiole 
line long. I have not seen the inflorescence ; but the 
above specimen shows two calyces from which the fruit has 
fallen ; these are glabrous, pale outside, the teeth having to- 
mentose margins. 
15. Bourreria linearis, nob. ; — fruticosa, ramis teretibus, stria- 
tis, tortuosis, nodosis ; ramuhs ultimis brevissimis, aspe- 
ratis ; foliis paucis, alternis, aut in nodis fasciculatis, mox 
delapsis, parvis, linearibus, spathulatis, rigidis, crassiusculis, 
marginibus valde revolutis, supra in costa profunde sul- 
catis, tuberculis albis setiferis valde scabris, subtus flavido- 
tomentosis ; petiolo fulvo-tomentoso, limbo 10-plo breviore : 
racemis in ramulis novellis terminalibus, brevibus, pauci- 
floris ; calyce persistente, tubuloso, 5-fisso, laciniis obtuse 
ovatis, utrinque adpresse pilosulis; di-upa globosa, rubra, 
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