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of Modno and Sesse to differentiate this species, its identity is clear 

 from the locality. 



6, Ichthyomethia acuminata Blake, sp. nov. 



Tree; branchlets strigillose, soon glabrate; leaves 7 to ii-foliolate, 



17 to 30 cm. long; petiole and rachis strigillose, glabrescent; leaflets 4 

 to 13 cm. long, 2.2 to 7 cm. wide, oval to ovate-oval, or the terminal one 

 obovate-oval or rarely suborbicular, obtuse or rounded, rarely short- 

 pointed, rounded at base, pergamentaceous, above light or dark green, 

 glabrous or essentially so, beneath paler, evenly but not densely strigose 

 or strigillose, the hairs lying across the prominulous secondary and ter- 

 tiary veins and not more numerous along them than between them; 

 panicles 10 to 30 cm. long, strigillose; pedicels 4 to 8 mm. long; calyx 

 5 to 6 mm. long, densely cinereous-strigillose, the lobes of lower lip del- 

 toid, acute or acuminate; flowers "pink;" vexillum 13 to 15 mm. long, 

 densely cinereous-strigose dorsally, in youth subsericeous ; alae 15 to 



18 mm. long (the claws 6.5 to 8 mm. long), the laminae sparsely pubes- 

 cent; keel 14 mm. long (the claws 6 mm. long), the petals pubescent 

 below, the claws ciliate below above the middle; vexillar stamen free for 

 one-quarter to one-half its length; fruit 2 to 8.5 cm. long, 2.5 to 4 cm. 

 wide, I to 5 -seeded, strigillose, the wings much wider than the body, 

 often undulate-divided, the stipe exceeding the calyx by 8 to 13 mm. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 639557, collected in An- 

 tigua, Lesser Antilles, February 4-16, 1913, by J. N. Rose, W. R. Fitch, 

 and P. G. Russell (no. 3419). 

 Other Specimens Examined: 



Porto Rico: Playa de Fajardo, 1913, Britton & Shafer 1575. 

 Punta Guaniquilla, 1915, Britton, Cowell, & Brown 4576. 



Culebra: Culebra, 1906, Britton & Wheeler 62. 



Vieques Island: Punta Arenas to Boca Quebrada, 1914, Shafer 

 2912. 



TorTola: Road Town to Sea Cow Bay, 1913, Britton & Shafer 684. 



St. Croix : Christiansted, 1 9 1 3, Rose, Fitch, & Russell 3579. With- 

 out definite locality, 1896, Ricksecker 320. 



St. Jan: Bethania, 1913, 5nVto« (5f 5/ia/er 336. 



MoNTSERRAT: Without definite locality, 1907, Shafer 462. 



Guadeloupe: Without definite locality, altitude 250 meters or less, 

 1892, Duss 2662. 



Barbados: Dover or Constitution Hill, Farley Hill, 1895, Wahy 83. 



Tobago : Scarborough, 1 9 1 4, Broadway 4808 . 



This species and the preceding (/. americana) are distinguished from 

 the other species of the /. piscipula type by the character of their 

 pubescence and by the long stipe of the fruit. They are distinguished 

 from one another chiefly by the shape of the lower calyx lobes, which 

 are acute or short-acuminate in the present plant and taper from the 



