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supra basin tubi insertis, imo dilatatis et villosis, exsertls ; 
antlieris fusco-coriaceis, mucronatis, rima nivea utrinque 
dehiscentibiis, oscillatoriis ; stylo stamina sequante, apice 
bifido. — In Guatemala et Venezuela : v. s. in herh. Mus. 
Brit.^ La Guayra prope Las Cadugras (Moritz, 907). 
As the above characters, drawn from the Venezuelan plant, 
accord, with few exceptions, with the description given by 
Bertoloni of his species from Guatemala, I have referred it 
there. It differs from the preceding species, with which Dr. 
Grisebach confounds it (Cat. PI. Cub. p. 204) in the much 
larger tube of the corolla, which is white (not reddish). The 
Beurreria grandijlora of that botanist, from Cuba (Wright, 
3122), without any description, I believe to be a very different 
plant, though I have not seen it. 
The axils are |-lj inch apart ; the leaves are 3^ inches 
long. If inch broad, on a petiole 7 lines long ; the panicle is 
diffusely branched, has spathulately linear deciduous bracts, 
2-5 lines long, all pubescent ; the pedicels are 1 line long ; 
the calyx is 4 lines long ; the tube of the corolla 1 inch long, 
the lobes of the border \ inch long. 
4. Crematomia Guildingiana^ nob. ; — ramis teretibus, sub- 
glabris, supeme parce puberulis, cum axillis ramuloinm 
ultimorum valde approximatis ; foliis elliptico-oblongis, 
apice sensim acutis, imo acutioribus, utrinque glabris, opacis, 
supra fusco-viridibus, nervis subimmersis, subtus pallidiori- 
bus, nervis prominulis, marginibus vix revolutis ; petiolo 
sulcato, obsolete puberulo, limbo 8-plo breviore : panicula 
corymbosa, terminali, dichotome expansa, ramis subcom- 
jiressis, subglabris ; pedicellis brevibus ; calyce coriaceo, 5- 
dentato, aut intequaliter subtrilobo, extus adpresse puberulo; 
corollge tubo irifmidibuliformi, calyce plusquam duplo lon- 
giore, lobis obtuse ovatis, imo breviter cordato-am-iculatis, 
expansis ; filamentis supra basin tubi insertis, imo dilatatis 
et viUosis, mox puberulis, sursum filiformibus, paulo ex- 
sertis ; antheris sublinearibus, rugulosis, mucronatis, imo 
divergentibus, oscillatoriis ; stylo exserto, tenuissimo, apice 
pro quarta parte bifido ; ovario disco insifo ; drupa camosa, 
acheniis 4 demum segregatis, e carpophoris suspensis, dorso 
spongiosis. — In Antillis : v. s. in herh. Hooh.j in flore et 
fructu, ins. S. Vincenti (Guilding, cum icone e plant, viv.). 
The details shown in the analytical drawing of the Rev.W. 
Guilding, in regard to the peculiar mode of suspension of the 
achenia, are amply confirmed by the specimen which accom- 
panies it ; but he does not appear to have seen the pericarpial 
covering of the fruits, which had fallen away at the period 
