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slightly pubescent 6 to 7 toothed, the slender teeth less than 2 mm. long. Corolla 

 white, the tube Blender, 2 to 2.5 cm. long, about 2 nun. in diameter, glabrous 

 outside, pubescent inside above the middle, the lobes 5, spreading, 12 mm. long, 

 4 mm. wide, obtuse or acute. Stamens 5, the filament very short, slender, pubes- 

 cent: anthers linear, (i mm. long, acuminate, the base sagittate. Style glabrous, 

 the stigma cleft into 2 flattened arms. Fruit subglobose or ovoid, about 1 cm. 

 in diameter. 2-cclled. Seeds triquetrous, black. 3 to .1 in each cell, embedded in 

 a pulpy mass. 



(17.11. 27.SO (type) Borden) August, -March: (1251 Whitford) May: (:VM-\ 

 Merrill) March; (7001 Elmer) November: KlOOti Leiberg) July. In forests 

 100 to 400 in. The flowers very fragrant. Apparently closely related to /,'. longi- 

 /lorn Lam. 



13. GARDENIA Ellis. 



1. G. barnesii Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 17 (1904) 47. 



(lti.-J Barnes) January; (2788 Meyer) February: (1235 Whitford) May; 

 (2918 Borden) .March: (6714 Elmer) November. In forests 100 to .100 in. 



Endemic. 



2. G. sp. 



(1470 Ahern's collector) August; (2041 Borden). In thickets on bluffs by 



the seashore, in fruit only. Considered by Mr. Flmer to be a distinct, unde- 

 scribed species of Gardenia, but the material, with fruit only, is too imperfect to 

 warrant a description. 



14. TRICALYSIA A. Rich. 



L T. sp. 



(lotil Whitford) January; (1374, 2928 Borden) July. March. In forests 130 

 to .loo ,„.. considered by Mr. Elmer to be a distinct undescribed species, but the 

 material is too imperfect to warrant description at this time. 



2. T. sp. 



(1.107 Ahern's collector) duly: (6900 Elmer) November; (1306 Whitford) 

 June; (3113 Meyer) May. In forests on exposed ridges above 900 m. A species 

 apparently closely related to and possibly identical with DiploSpOTO singularis 



Forth. h'<ni<li(i fasoiculiftora Elmer in herb., in part. 

 15. PLECTRONIA Linn. 



1. P. peduncularis K'av.) Flmer. in herb. Canthium pedunoulare Cav Icon 

 5 (1799) 21. /. ',.;/;. 



(1221 Borden) dune: (401 Whitford) dune: (2.14.1 Merrill) June. In thickets 

 below loo in. Endemic. 



2. P. mitis (Haiti.) Canthium mite Haiti, in DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 474. 



(22:54 Meyer) December: (7020 Elmer) November. In thickets below 100 m. 

 Endemic. 



3. P. umbellata (Haiti.) F. Sch. in Engl, und Prantl. Nat. Pnansenfam. 4 

 (1891) 4:. 92. Myonima umbellata Bartl. Canthium villarii Vidal. Canthium 



gynochthodes Hail I. 



(1807, 1808 Borden) September; (14.12. 14.1(1. 1459 Ahern's collector ) July 

 In forests 100 to 200 m. Endemic 



Bentham and Hooker f. are frequently cited as the authority for the transfer 



of this species to Plectronia, but they only indicated and did not actually make 

 the transfer. I\. Schumann is the proper authority. 



4. Plectronia viridis Merrill, sp. now 



A small tree, 10 m. high or less. Branches slender, terete, glabrous, light 

 brown or gray. Leaves opposite, glabrous, subcoriaeeous, elliptical-ovate to ovate 

 or elliptical-lanceolate, dull or slightly shining, pah- green when dry, o to 11 cm. 



