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glabro, inaequaliter 2-3-fido ; corolla infundibuliformi, tubo 
calyce duplo longiore, lobis suborbicularibus, imo auriculato- 
cordatis, patentibus, filamentis paulo supra basin insertis, 
imo dilatatis et villosulis, mox filiformibus, ciliatis, longe 
exsertis ; antheris linearibus, imo fissis, in sinu oscillato- 
riis ; stylo tenuissimo, longe exserto, pro quarta parte bi- 
fido ; drupa 4-gone globosa, 4-pyrena, pyi'enibus dorso spon- 
giosis. — In Venezuela : v. s. in herh. Mus. Brit.^ Cmnana 
(Moritz, 383). 
A tree twenty feet liigb, called by the natives Guatacare ; 
its leaves are 3-3 1 inches long, inch broad, on a petiole 
3 lines long : the panicle is 4 inches long and broad ; the ca- 
lyx is 4 lines long, glabrous, striated, the tube of the corolla 
9 lines long, the lobes of the border 4 lines in diameter ; the 
stamens exserted 4 lines beyond the mouth ; the anthers 
1^ line long; the style as long as the stamens. 
2. Grematomia grandijlora, nob. ; — Ehretia grandiflora, Poir. 
Diet. Suppl. ii. 3 ; i2. (b Sch. Syst. iv. 529; DC. Prodr. 
ix. 510 ; — ramulis patentibus, teretibus, substrictis ; foliis 
ovatis, apice obtusis, imo attenuatis, in^quilateris, nervosis, 
utrinque glabris, subtus reticulatis, breviter petiolatis : pa- 
niculis corymbosis, terminalibus ; calyce 5-dentato, sub- 
pubescente, cinereo ; coroUse magnge tubo calyci sequilongo, 
lobis longioribus, ovatis, patentibus, rubellis ; antheris ob- 
longis, oscillatoriis ; stylo apice bifido. — In Antillis, ins. 
S. Domingo {rion vidi). 
This species appears to differ from C. Guatimalensis {Bour- 
reria grandiflora^ Griseb.) in its smaller, more oval leaves, 
and a corolla with larger reddish lobes. The leaves are about 
2 inches long, 1^ inch broad. 
3. Grematomia Guatimalensis^ nob. ; — Beurreria grandiflora, 
Bertol. FI. Guat. 10 [non Griseb.) ; — Ehretia Guatima- 
lensis, DG. Prodr. ix. 507 ; — ramulis apice subpubescenti- 
bus ; foliis ellipticis vel elliptico-oblongis, utrinque acutis, 
basi angustioribus, utiinque subglabris vel e tuberculis mi- 
nutis obsolete scabridulis, planis, nervis tenuibus, immersis, 
supra opacis, subtus pallidioribus ; petiolo subtenui, canali- 
culate, glabro, limbo 6-plo breviore : panicula corymbosa 
terminali, dichotome ramosa, ramis angulato-compressis, 
pubescentibus, bracteolis foliolosis, ovato-lanceolatis ; calyce 
e laciniis cohaerentibus irregulariter 2-3-fido, coriaceo, extus 
glabro, intus subsericeo ; corollae alba} tubo infundibuliformi, 
calyce triple longiore, fauce ampla, limbi lobis suborbiculari- 
ovatis, imo cordato-auriculatis, patentibus ; filamentis paulo 
