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>i 2. Guettarda Krugii Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 431. 1899. 



A shrub, 1-4 m. high, in Porto Eico sometimes becoming a tree up to 10 

 m. high, the twigs stout, the young ones densely tomentulose, the older gray 

 and glabrous. Stipules ovate, obtuse or aeutish, brownish villous, deciduous; 

 leaves ovate to suborbicular or elliptic-obovate, coriaceous, or those of shoots 

 subchartaceous, obtuse, rounded or aeutish at the apex, rounded or cordate at 

 the base, smooth and glabrous above, densely pubescent, strongly and densely 

 reticulate-veined beneath, 3-11 cm. long, the stout, villous and tomentose 

 petioles 6-15 mm. long, or those of shoots larger and longer-petioled; cymes 

 1-few-flowered in the upper axils; peduncles* 1 cm. long or less; calyx brown- 

 ish villous, 5-6 mm. long, its limb irregularly subtruncate; corolla white, ap- 

 pressed-villous, about 1.5 cm. long, its lobes about one-fourth as long as the 

 tube; fruit globose, densely tomentulose, 9-12 mm. in diameter. 



Scrub-lands and rocky coppices, Abaco, Eleuthera, Exuma Chain, Cat Island and 

 Watling's to Grand Turk, Ambergris Cay and Inagua : Porto Rico. Recorded by 

 Hitchcock as G. calyptrata A. Rich. Some of our specimens are barren and are re- 

 ferred to this species with hesitation. Kuuu's Velvet-seed. Fkogwood. 



3. Guettarda Nashii Britton & Millspaugh, sp. nov. 



A large shrub or small tree, with slender branches, the young twigs, 

 petioles and peduncles densely tomentulose. Stipules oblong-lanceolate, acute, 

 appressed-villous, deciduous, 10-12 mm. long; leaves elliptic to elliptic-obovate, 

 or rhombic-elliptic, chartaceous, 9-12 cm. long, sharply acute at the apex, 

 rounded or truncate at the base, pubescent on the veins but otherwise glabrous 

 a,bove, densely reticulate-veined and pilose-tomentulose beneath, the rather 

 slender, tomentulose petioles 1.5-2 cm. long; peduncles axillary, rather slender, 

 tomentulose, 2.5-3.5 cm. long; cymes 8-12-flowered, their branches 1-2 cm. 

 long; flowers sessile; calyx tomentulose, obliquely truncate, 6-7 mm. long; 

 bracts linear, longer than the calyx; corolla white, appressed-pubescent with 

 long hairs, 2 cm. long, the oblong obtuse lobes about one-fourth as long as 

 the tube. 



Scrub-lands, Matthew Town, Inagua (Nash cC- Taylor, 1369) . Nash's Vei.vet-seed. 



4. Guettarda Tayldri Britton & Millspaugh, sp. nov. 



A small tree, up to 4 m. high, with slender branches, the young twigs 

 densely tomentulose. Stipules broadly ovate-elliptic, obtuse, densely tomentu- 

 lose and appressed-villous, 8-10 mm. long; leaves elliptic, ovate-elliptic or 

 obovate, membranous, 3-5 cm. long, obtuse and rounded at the apex, rounded 

 or subcordate at the base; pubescent on the veins, but otherwise glabrous 

 above, densely tomentulose, appressed-villous on the veins, and reticulate- 

 veined beneath, the slender villous petioles 8-12 mm. long; peduncles slender, 

 axillary, tomentulose, about twice as long as the petioles; cymes compact, 5-8- 

 flowered; flowers sessile; bracts linear, longer than the calyx; calyx tomentu- 

 lose, 5 mm. long, pointed in bud; corolla white, appressed-strigose, 1 cm. long, 

 its lobes more than one-half as long as the tube. 



.Matthew Town, Inagua (Xash & Taylor, 918). Taylor's Velvet-seed. 



5. Guettarda inaguensis Britton & Millspaugh, sp. nov. 



A small tree, up to 4 m. high, with slender stiff straight glabrous 

 Tranches, the young twigs tomentose. Leaves membranous, broadly elliptic, 

 3-5 em. long, obtuse or rounded at the apex, cordate to truncate at the base, 

 sparingly pubescent with long scattered hairs above, densely tomentulose, 

 finely reticulate-veined and appressed-villous on the midvein beneath, the 

 rather stout, villous petioles 5-10 mm. long; stipules ovate, obtuse, tomentu- 

 lose and villous, about 8 mm. long, deciduous; flowers solitary, sessile in the 

 axils: calyx narrowly campanulate, 2-lobed, 5-6 mm. long, densely pubescent; 



