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Shannon. HONDURAS, 5467 Thieme. MEXICO, Nickels. CUBA, 

 de la Ossa; de la Sagra; Wright, Britton, Britton &* Co-well 12512; 

 Combs 498. SANTO DOMINGO, Poiteau. PORTO Rico, Sintenis 

 3698, 5717; Mr. & Mrs. Heller 34; Millspaugh 157. FLORIDA, Brit- 

 ton 281. BAHAMAS, Brace 4144; Britton & Millspaugh 5791. ST. 

 CROIX, Ricksecker. MONTSERRAT, Shafer 216. BARBADOS, Dash 

 631. GRENADA, Broadway. 



Illustrations: Commel. Hort., t. 91; Jacq. Amer., t. 92; Descourt. Ant., 

 t. 116. Bo't. Cab., t. 727; Bot. Reg., t. 837; Bot. Mag., t. 2514. 



3. Pedilanthus Deamii Millsp. sp. nov. 



Shrubby; branches smooth, leafy above, naked below, young leafy 

 branchlets tomentose. Leaves thin, sessile, ovate to suborbicular, 

 inaequilateral, acute, narrowed to the base, crispidulous-puberulous on 

 both surfaces, 4.5-6 cm. long, 2.5-3.5 cm - wide, midrib prominent 

 beneath. Cymes nodal, simply bi-cephalic or cymose-bicephalic; 

 bracts small (one fourth the length of the peduncles), cucullate, tomen- 

 tose; peduncles smooth, 5-6 mm.; involucres small and slender, 1.2 x 

 .3 cm.; tube walls very thin, lower notch shallow, upper fissure extend- 

 ing to the appendix, few-ciliate at the posterior third, principal lobes 

 ovate, erose-dentate, few-ciliate in the sulcus, lateral lobes ligulate, one 

 third free, the apices slightly rounded-truncate, ciliate. Appendix 

 small, less than one third the length of the tube, the lip ligulate, trun- 

 cate, retuse; glands 4, scutelliform. Male pedicels hairy at the apex, 

 filaments hairy; female pedicel glabrous; style slender, slightly 3-lobed 

 at the apex. Capsule smooth, strongly 3-coccous; seeds grayish-olive, 

 subcylindric, apiculate, 3.8 x 2.5 mm., irregularly and minutely mottled. 

 Type locality: GUATEMALA, Fiscal, in ravines, alt. 3700 ft.; May 31, 



1901, Chas. C. Beam 6081. Type in herb. Field Museum of Natural 



History, Chicago, sheet No. 247.005. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type. 



4. Pedilanthus jamaicensis Millsp. & Britton. sp. nov. 



Shrubby, 4 dm. high; branches tenuous, glabrous. Leaves short 

 petioled (5 mm.), minutely and sparsely puberulous, oblong to ovate, 

 3-10 cm. long, narrowed to the petiole, apex blunt. Cymes nodal; 

 involucres i cm. x 4 mm.; tube- walls thin, the superior fissure open 

 back to the appendix, inferior notch about one fourth the length of the 

 tube; main lobes ovate, the lateral rectangular-oblong, one half free, all 

 fimbrio-ciliate ; male flowers long-exserted, filament one quarter the 

 length of the glabrous pedicel; female pedicel glabrous; style minutely 

 3 -forked at the apex the lobes 2 -cleft. Appendix about one half the 



