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when he gathered the plant : this deficiency, however, is sup- 
plied by the Cuban specimens of Crematomia calophylla, and 
by Richard’s drawing of the same. It is now easy to under- 
stand the rough and incomplete sketch by Jacquin of the fruit 
of his Beurreria exsucca, which it was impossible to compre- 
hend before, in the absence of any specimen. 
The branchlets are stout, 3 lines in thickness, with axils 
inch apart; the leaves are 2^-3 inches long, l^-lf inch 
broad, on a petiole 4 lines long. The coiymb is 2^-3 inches 
long ; the calyx 3 lines long ; the tube of the corolla 8 lines 
long, the lobes 5 lines long ; the filaments 8 lines long ; the 
ovary and style 12 lines, the segments of the latter 2^ lines ; 
the achenia are 7 lines long, lines broad, narrowing up- 
wards and somewhat cordately inflected at the base ; the cell 
and its contained seed are 3 lines long. 
5. Crematomia Jacquiniana^ nob. ; — Beuri'eria exsucca, Jacq. 
Amer. 45, tab. 173. fig. 17 ; Lam. Diet. i. 527 ; — Ehretia 
exsucca, Linn. Sp. 275 ; DC. Prodr. ix. 508 ; — arborescens, 
ramis interdum subscandentibus ; folds ovatis, acutis, gla- 
berrimis, petiolatis : corymbis racemosis, subterminalibus ; 
floribus pedicellatis, albis, suaveolentibus ; calyce urceolato, 
irregulariter trifido, extus glabro, laciniis intus villosis ; 
corollm tubo calyce triple longiore, lobis suborbicularibus, 
imo auriculato-cordatis, cum tubo crassiusculis, patentibus ; 
filamentis infra medium insertis, longe exsertis ; antheris 
acutis, oscillatoriis ; stylo apice bifido, exserto ; fructu (de- 
lapso pericarpio?) sec. Jacq. viridi, 4-gono, apice obtuse 
angustato, 4-sulcato, ad angulos partibili, demum in achenia 
4 libera in arbore persistentia soluto. — In Nova Granada 
ad Carthagenam : v. s. in herh. Mus. Brit, (flos tantum, 
ab ipso Jacq. communicatus) . 
This species, which is clearly identified by the flower sent 
by Jacquin, differs from the others I have seen, in its more 
fleshy texture and different proportions. It differs from all in 
its subscandent habit and the country of its origin ; it agrees 
with Ehretia grandijlora^ Poir., in the size of its leaves, but 
differs in its white (not reddish) flowers, which have a much 
longer tube and shorter lobes. 
It is a tree fifteen feet high ; its leaves are 2 inches long ; 
the calyx is 2^ lines long, the tube of the corolla 6 lines long, 
1 line broad at its base, 5 lines in diameter in the mouth ; the 
lobes are 4 lines in diameter, much overlapping one another 
by their auricular bases ; the stamens extend 2^ lines, the style 
3 lines beyond the mouth. 
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