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Type Locality: Near Cojimar, Havana, Cuba. 

 Specimens Examined: 



Cuba: Thickets not far from Cojimar, May 14, 19 15, Leon cS" Roca 

 6194 (type; N. Y. Bot. Card.). 



This species, of which only the type, in fruit and young leaf, has been 

 examined, is distinguished from the next by its smaller fruit and smaller 

 leaflets, these prominulous-reticulate beneath, as well as by the pubes- 

 cence of the rachis and petiolules. 



4. Ichthyomethia communis Blake, sp. nov. 



Tree, 20 meters high or less; branchlets strigillose, soon glabrate; 

 leaves 7 or 9-foholate, 12 to 22 cm. long; petiole and rachis sordid- 

 strigillose or appressed-puberulous, sometimes glabrate in age; leaflets 

 4 to 12 cm. long, 2 to 5 cm. wide, oblong or eUiptic to obovate-oval, 

 acute or short-pointed, rounded to cuneate at base, above green, ap- 

 pressed-puberulous, at length glabrate, beneath pale, not prominulous- 

 reticulate, densely incurved-puberulous, the hairs more numerous along 

 the veins; panicles 3 to 9 cm. long, many-flowered, often branched from 

 base, finely griseous-puberulous ; pedicels 2 to 6 mm. long; calyx 4.5 

 mm. long, densely cinereous-puberulous ; the teeth of lower lip broadly 

 deltoid, obtuse or rounded; vexillum 12.5 mm. long, suborbicular, 

 densely cinereous-pubescent on back; alae about 15 mm. long (the 

 claws 7 mm. long), the lamina sparsely pubescent; keel 12 mm. long 

 (the claws 6.5 mm. long), the petals pubescent below, the claws ciliate 

 beneath above the middle; vexillar stamen free for one-fourth to one- 

 half its length; fruit 2.5 to 7.5 cm. long, 2.8 to 4 cm. wide, i to 6-seeded, 

 cinereous-puberulous, especially on the body, the wings much wider 

 than the body, usually undulate-divided, the stipe equahng the calyx 

 or exceeding it by only 6 (rarely 9) mm. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 41958, collected in forests 

 on coral soil, Ramrod Key (flowers), and on Jewfish Key, Florida 

 (leaves and fruit). May and July, by A. H. Curtiss (no. 685). 

 Other Specimens Examined: 



Florida: Miami, 1877, Garber. Punta Rassa, Lee County, 1900, 

 Hitchcock 76; 191 6, Miss J. P. Standley 257. Marco, Lee County, 

 1916, P. C. Standley 12732. White Horse Key, and Key West, 1891, 

 Simpson 234. Palm Cape, Chapman 34. 



Tamaulipas : Tampico, 1910, Palmer 510. 



vSan Luis Potosi: Limestone hills, Rascon, 1892, Pringle 4110. 



Veracruz: Pueblo Viejo, near Tampico, 1910, Palmer 541 (N. Y. 

 Bot. Card.). 



Yucatan: Merida, 1865, Schott 260. Sisal, 1916, Gatimer & Sons 

 23219. Without definite locaUty, 1895, Gaumer 524. 



Honduras: Ruatan Island, 1886, Gaumer 154. 



Cuba: Manzanillo, 191 2, Shafer 12349. Ensenada de Mora, 

 Oriente, 1912, Britton, Cowell, & Shafer 12926 (N. Y. Bot. Card.). 



