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majuscula, globosa ; pericarpio coriaceo, utrinque nitido, 
pulpa paucissima ; aclieniis 4 dorso spongiosis, columella 
central! affixis, — In Antillis : v. s. in herb. Hook., Cuba (spe- 
cim. tjp. a La SaCTa commun.) ; Cuba (Wright, 3124) ; in 
herb, Mus. Brit., Cuba (Wright, 3124, sub nom. B. reticu- 
lata). 
I can perceive no essential difference between La Sagra’s 
typical specimen and Wright’s plant, which Dr. Grisebach 
made a separate species, both (especially the Museum specimen) 
agreeing admirably with Richard’s drawing. It is described 
as a small tree, the branches being furnished with large shining 
leaves, approximated towards their extremities : the leaves 
are 3-5 inches long, 1^-2^ inches broad, on a stiff petiole 
1-1| inch long. The panicle is longer and stouter in fruit, 
when it is 6|- inches long and broad, with long, thick, divari- 
cating branches, the peduncle being 2 4 inches long ; the arti- 
culated pedicels are ^ line long ; the calyx 3 lines long, the 
tube of the corolla 2 lines, its lobes 3| lines long ; the filaments 
are subpuberulous ; the drupe is 9 lines long, 8 lines in dia- 
meter, supported on the stellated coriaceous calyx ; the achenia 
correspond in structure with the generic character. 
8. Crematomia coriacea, nob. ; — ramulis angulato-striatis, 
glabris, rubescentibus ’, foliis ovatis, apice rotundis et mu- 
cronulatis, imo rotundis et breviter auriculato-cordatis, 
coriaceis, undique glaberrimis, supra subpallidis, in costa 
nervisque valde divaricatis sulcatis, aut profundius vaUecu- 
latis, venis grossis minute reticulatis, marginibus subrevo- 
lutis, subtus concoloribus, nitidiusculis, costa nervisque 
transversim venosis valde prominentibus ; petiolo crasso, 
semitereti, supra sulcato, ruguloso, limbo lO-plo breviore : 
panicula laxe corymbosa, terminal!, dichotome ramosa, 
ramis longiusculis, compressis, nitentibus, rubellis, glabris. 
— In Antillis : v. s. in herb. Hook., Cuba (La Sagra). 
This is very different from C. ealophylla, to which it was 
referred by De Franqueville, who obtained the specimen from 
La Sagra. It is fructiferous, from which all the drupes have 
fallen. The species is remarkable for its oval, thick, coria- 
ceous leaves, which are cordate at base, with two imbricated 
auricular lobes, and are deeply channelled along the midrib 
and unusually spreading nervures. The branchlets are thick, 
with axils -^-l inch apart ; its leaves are 2^-3^ inches long, 
1^-2^ inches broad, on a very stout petiole 3-M lines long ; 
the spreading panicle is 3^ inches long. 
9. Crematomia attenuata, nob. ; — Bourreria Domingensis, 
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