178 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLume 21 
sessile, the bractlets 3, linear-lanceolate, acutish, 1-1.5 mm. long, the perianth 3.5 mm. long, 
white, at first suburceolate, finally twbular-infundibuliform, sparsely short-hirtellous with 
rufous hairs, the limb shortly 5-dentate, erect, 2 mm. wide; style equaling or slightly exceeding 
the perianth; fruit subglobose, bright reddish-violet, 7 mm. long, 4~5 mm. thick, the utricle 
ellipsoid, 5 mm. long, 2.5 mm. thick. . 
TYPE LocaLity: In a moist valley near Tiburon, Haiti. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
13. Neea coccinea (Sw.) Heimerl, Bot. Jahrb. 21: 635. 1896. 
Pisonia coccinea Sw. Prodr. 60. 1788. 
Shrub, 1-2 meters high, the branches slender, flexuous, glabrous, grayish, the branchlets 
spreading, puberulent when young, leafy near the ends; leaves mostly alternate, the petioles 
slender, 1-2 cm. long, the blades broadly elliptic-lanceolate, broadest at the middle, 5-6.3 
em. long, 2.5-3.1 cm. wide, contracted at the base, obtuse to acuminate at the apex, herbaceous, 
glabrous, deep-green above, slightly paler beneath, the lateral veins not prominent, arcuate, 
3-7 on each side; peduncles terminal, glabrous, 3-4 cm. long, filiform, the flowers 3-5, sub- 
racemose or cymose, sessile or on pedicels 2 mm. long or shorter, glabrous; bractlets 1-1.5 
mrm..long, linear-lanceolate, glabrate; staminate perianth suburceolate, 6 mm. long, the teeth 
broadly deltoid, acutish, erect; stamens usually 7, 3-4.5 mm. long, the anthers 1.5 mm. long; 
pistillate perianth narrowly tubular, 3 mm. long, scarcely constricted in the throat, shortly 
5-dentate, the teeth obtuse; fruit oblong-ellipsoid, 8 mm. long, 3 mm. in diameter, scarlet. 
TYPE Locality: Hispaniola. 
DISTRIBUTION: Hispaniola. 
14. Neea subcoccinea Heimerl, Symb. Ant. 7: 219. 1912. 
Small tree, the branches glabrous, the branchlets slender, grayish-brown or rufescent, 
densely rufo-hirtellous when young, finally glabrate; leaves opposite or alternate, the petioles 
slender, 3-9 mm. long, the blades ovate-elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, 1.3-4.4 cm. long, 0.9- 
1.8 cm. wide, broadest near the middle, acute to rounded at the apex, acute or obtuse at the 
base and short-decurrent, deep-green and sparsely hirtello-puberulent on the upper surface, 
densely hirtellous beneath, the lateral nerves 5-7 on each side, slightly arcuate, inconspicuous; 
peduncles of the staminate cymes 1-1.6 cm. long, slender, terminal and axillary, few-flowered, 
the flowers usually 2-5, subspicate or subcapitate, yellow, subsessile or on pedicels 1 mm. 
long or shorter, the perianth 5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, urceolate, glabrate; stamens 7, 2-3.5 
mun. long; pistillate flowers and fruit not known. 
Tyee LocaLity: Near Barahona, Santo Domingo. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
15. Neea fagifolia Heimerl, Beitr. Syst. Nyct. 39. 1897. 
Branchlets sparsely tomentulose, glabrate in age, leafy at the apex, the internodes short; 
leaves opposite, the petioles 6-8 mm. long, the blades elliptic-lanceolate, 4.2-5.7 cm. long, 
2.2-2.8 cm. wide, widest at the middle, attenuate to the acutish apex and the cuneate base, 
thin, lustrous above and glabrate, densely short-villous beneath; peduncles of the staminate 
inflorescence 2-3 cm. long, the cymes short-pyramidal, the branches slender, the flowers sessile 
or very short-pedicellate, the perianth ellipsoid, 5 mm. long, shortly but distinctly narrowed 
at both ends, glabrous, 5-dentate, the teeth acute; stamens 6, unequal, half as long as the 
perianth; pistillate flowers and fruit not known. 
TYPE Locaity: Granada, Nicaragua. . 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
2. CEPHALOTOMANDRA Karst. & Triana; Karst. Linnaea 28: 429, 
1856. 
Trees or shrubs, more or less pubescent. Leaves opposite, petiolate, the blades entire. 
Flowers dioecious, small, yellowish or reddish, tribracteolate, pedicellate, arranged in terminal 
