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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
6. Crematomia venosa, nob. ; — ramulis teretibus, subvirgatis, 
striatis, glabris ; foliis ovatis, apice rotundatis, mucronatis 
aut emarginatis, imo obtusis, subinsequilateris, in petiolo 
breviter subito decurrentibus, nndique glaberrimis, supra 
viridibus, costa sulcata, nervis divergentibus rubellis arcua- 
tim nexis, prominule reticulatis, subtus pallidioribus, nervis 
rubescentibus et prominulis, planis, marginibus paulo re- 
pando-sinuolatis ; petiolo crassiusculo, sulcato, glabro, limbo 
4-8-plo breviore : panicula terminali, laxe ramosa, ramis di- 
chotomis, divergentibus, compressis, glabris ; bracteis valde 
deciduis ; floribus fere sessibbus ; calyce extus obsolete pu- 
berido, 5-dentato, dentibus acutis, intus cano-subsericeis ; 
corollse tubo calyce longiore, lobis ovalibus, imo auriculatis ; 
filamentis medio tubi insertis, parce scabridule pilosulis, 
exsertis ; antheris coriaceis, fuscis, rugosis, submucronatis, 
oscillatoriis ; stylo pro tertia parte bifido. — In Antillis : v. s. 
in herb. Hook., Jamaica (Dr. Alex. Prior). 
The branches are 1 or 2 lines in thickness, their axils are 
5 -| inch apart ; the leaves are 3j-3f inches long, 2 inches 
broad, on a petiole 5-10 lines long. The terminal, very 
spreading panicle is 5 inches long (including the peduncle of 
If inches) and equal in breadth : the flowers are in bud, the 
calyx being 3 lines long. 
7. Crematomia calophylla, nob.; — Ehretia calophylla. Rich, in 
La Sagra, FI. Cub. ii. 112, tab. 61 ; Walp. Ann. v. 541 ; — 
Bourreria reticulata, Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 210 ; — ramulis 
angiflato-compressis, glabris ; foliis oblongis, apice rotun- 
datis, imo obtuse attenuatis et paulo insequilateris, rigidis, 
subcoriaceis, utrinque glaberrimis, supra Ifete viridibus, 
lucidis, aut interdum maculis albis crebris pustulatis (nullo 
modo scabris), costa rubella, nervis valde divaricatis reti- 
culatis, subtus pallidioribus, flavide glaucis, costa crassa 
nervisque valde prominentibus, marginibus paulo revolutis ; 
petiolo subvalido, sulcato, rigido, glabro, limbo 3-5-plo 
breviore : panicula terminal!, valde expansa, dichotome ra- 
mosa, glaberrima, ramis longis, validis, sti'iato-compressis ; 
calyce crasso-coriaceo, glabro aut obsolete piloso, acute 5- 
dentato, dentibus margine tomentosis, imo bractea linear! 
jequilonga decidua donate ; coroUiB tubo calycem sequante, 
intra pubescente, lobis oblongis, rotundatis, imo brevissime 
auriculatis, tubo paulo longioribus ; filamentis imo dilatatis 
et pubescentibus, sub fauce insertis, cum costis totidem 
pilosulis continuis, exsertis ; antheris mucronatis, lobis ob- 
iongis, superne adnatis, ad medium divaricatis, in sinu 
oscillatoriis ; stylo his attingente, ad medium bifido ; drupa 
