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axils of the veins beneath, reticulate-venose, the lateral veins 6 to 9 pairs; petioles 
glabrous, 5 to 11 mm. long; racemes axillary, solitary, simple, loosely flowered, rather 
densely puberulous, the rachis 4.5 to 7 cm. long; peduncles very sparsely puberulous, 
1.3 to 2.5 em. long; pedicels 1 to 3.5 mm. long, incurved-puberulous; fruiting calyx 
tube strongly depressed-turbinate, contracted into a short pediform base, very ob- 
scurely sulcate, griseous-puberulous; calyx segments 6, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 
narrowed to an obtusish tip, griseous-puberulous on both sides and ciliate, 1.5 to 
3 mm. long, 0.6 to 1.3 mm. wide; corolla 7.5 to 11 mm. wide; petals 6, ovate or oval- 
ovate, narrowed to an obtusish tip, griseous-puberulous and somewhat ciliate, 2.5 to 
3.8 mm. long, 1.5 to 2.7 mm. wide; stamens in fascicles of 3, the filaments glabrous, 
shorter than the petals; styles 3, distinct to base, pilose below; ovary depressed - 
conic, griseous-villous. 
Type LOCALITY: Woodlands, eastern slopes of southern end of John Crow Moun- 
tains, Jamaica. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Jamaica: Woodlands, eastern slopes of southern end of John Crow Mountains, 
March 10, 1909, Harris & Britton 10741 (type collection; N, Y). Westphalia 
Estate, St. Andrews, 1885, Hart 636 (N). 
The local name of this species is given on the label of the type collection as ‘* white 
cogwood.”’ 
11. Homalium pittieri Blake, sp. nov. 
Tree, 15 to 20 meters high; older branches grayish, lenticellate, the younger tuscous, 
glabrous; leaf blades 5.5 to 11.3 cm, long, 3 to 6 cm, wide, oval to ovate-oval, short- 
pointed, with obtuse or acutish tip, rounded or cuneate-rounded at base, crenate or 
undulate with 10 to 16 pairs of rounded depressed teeth, subcoriaceous, above deep 
green, somewhat shining, sparsely incurved-puberulous (chiefly along midrib) or 
glabrous, beneath duller or paler green, in youth sparsely strigillose and along midrib 
strigose, at maturity glabrous or sparsely strigillose on suriace, along midrib sparsely 
incurved-puberulous or strigose, not barbellate in the axils, with 5 to 7 pairs of pri- 
mary veins and prominulous-reticulate secondaries; petioles sparsely incurved- 
puberulous or strigillose, 6 to 14mm. long; peduncles axillary and terminal, incurved- 
puberulous, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long; inflorescences conic-cyclindric, paniculate at base, 
simply racemose above, the rachis eriseous-puberulous, 2.8 to 4.5 cm. long, the lowest 
branches few-flowered, about 5 mm. long; pedicels 1.5 to 2.5 mm. long; flowers 
whitish; calyx tube turbinate or in fruit depressed-turbinate, narrowed into a distinct 
pediform base, griseous-puberulous and obscurely sulcate; calyx segments 6 or 7, 
oblong to elliptic-oblong, obtuse, griseous-puberulous, 2 to 3 mm. long, 0.7 to 1.8 mm, 
wide; corolla 11 to 13 mm. wide; petals 6 or 7, oval or oval-ovate, obtuse, griseous- 
puberulous, 3.8 to 4.2 mm. long, 1.5 to 2.7 mm. wide; stamens in fascicles of 3, much 
shorter than petals, the filaments glabrous; glands oval, eriseous-puberulous; ovary 
conic, griseous-villous; styles 3, distinct, glabrous or sparsely pubescent at base. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 892,575, collected in light woods in the 
Lower Catuche wood above Caracas, Venezuela, altitude 1,000 to 1,200 meters, Sep- 
tember, 1917, by H. Pittier (no. 7390). 
OTHER SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
VENEZUELA: Parque de los Barbaros, Los Teques, State of Miranda, October 19, 
1917, Pittier 7515 (N). 
Homalium pittiert is most closely related to H. racemosum Jacq., ol the Lesser 
Antilles, From that species it differs in its incurved-puberulous peduncles, its 
leaves incurved-puberulous or strigose along the midrib beneath, its oblong or elliptic- 
oblong calyx segments, its depressed-turbinate fruiting calyx tube, and its less pani- 
culate inflorescence. Eichler’s record of H. pedicellatum from Caracas probably 
refers to this species. 
