568 Britton : Studies of West Indian plants 



oles ; receptacle peltate, purplish, puberulent, 8-10 mm. broad,, 

 saucer-shaped, its margin with about 20 triangular-subulate teeth 

 0.5 mm. long ; flowers dark purple. 



On vertical limestone cliffs, Somerset, Parish of Manchester, 

 Jamaica, Sept. 2 2, 1908 {Britton j 73 7, type; Harris & Britton 

 10607). An interesting addition to the West Indian peltate- 

 leaved Dorstenias, three being known from Cuba and one from 

 Santo Domingo. 



Trichilia Harrisii sp. nov. 



A tree about 7 m. high, the twigs and leaves glabrous. 

 Leaves 2-3 dm. long ; petiole 1.5-2.5 cm. long; leaflets 5-9, 

 flat, thin, oblong-lanceolate to ovate-elliptic, faintly pinnately 

 veined with about 1 5 veins on each side of the midrib, narrowed 

 or rounded and somewhat oblique at the base, rather long-acumi- 

 nate at the apex, the larger ones 10-16 cm. long, 4-7.5 cm. 

 wide ; petioles 5-8 mm. long ; fruiting panicles 1 5 cm. long or 

 less, its branches finely appressed-pubescent ; fruiting pedicels 

 stout, 23 mm. long; capsule globose to oval, 1-2.5 cm - l n g> 

 blunt or pointed, rugose, densely velutinous, tardily dehiscent. 



In woods near summit of Dolphin Head Mountain, Hanover, 

 Jamaica, March 18, 1908 [Britton 2263, type; 226g ; Harris 

 10282, 10286). 



11. ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF JAMAICA SEDGES 



In 1907 I contributed an enumeration of the sedges of Jamaica 

 to the Bulletin of the Jamaica Department of Agriculture (5 : 

 Supplement 1). Further exploration of that island in the autumn 

 of 1907 and in the spring and autumn of 1908 has disclosed the 

 occurrence of some additional species and the habitat of others 

 which were recorded by me from the statements of other botanists. 



Kyllinga intermedia R. Br. Prodr. 219. 18 10. 



Pasture, Cornwall near Lacovia {Britton 1400). Distribution : 

 Cuba ; Australia. 



Kyllinga peruviana Lam. Encyl. 3: 366. 1789. 

 Not uncommon in swamps along the coasts. 



Cyperus humilis Kunth, Enum. 2: 23. 1837. 



East of Port Antonio ( Wight 54) ; rocky thicket, Salem {Brit- 

 ton 2342) ; edge of water-hole, Lucea {Britton 2po6). Distribu- 

 tion : Cuba ; Martinique ; Central America. 



