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Distribution: Thickets at low elevations near the coasts, 

 Oriente; Camaguey; Santa Clara; Matanzas; Havana: Florida; 

 Bahamas; Jamaica; Hispaniola; Porto Rico; Mexico. Referred 

 by A. Richard and by Grisebach to G. odorata Lam. 



Illustration: Sargent, Sylva N. A. pi. 22g; Man. Trees /. 

 617; Britton & Shafer, N. A. Trees/. 768. 



24. Guettarda scabra (L.) Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 2: 218. 1793 



Matthiola scabra L. Sp. PI. 1192. 1753. 



G. rugosa Sw. Prodr. 59. 1788. 



G. havanensis DC. Prodr. 4: 455. 1830. 



G. ambigna A. Rich, in Sagra, Hist. Cub. 11 : 20. 1850. Not DC. 



Type locality: "In America." 



Distribution: Thickets and woodlands at lower elevations, 

 Oriente; Camaguey; Santa Clara; Matanzas: Florida; Bahamas; 

 Hispaniola to Tortola, Anguilla, Grenada and Margarita; Central 

 America; recorded from Jamaica. 



25. Guettarda Combsii Urban, Symb. Ant. 6: 48. 1909 



Type locality: Near Cieneguita, Santa Clara, Cuba. 

 Distribution: Savannas and woodlands at lower elevations, 

 Santa Clara; Matanzas; Pinar del Rio. Endemic. 



Referred by Grisebach to G. longiflora Griseb. of Jamaica. 



26. Guettarda retusa C. Wright; Sauvalle, Anales Acad. 



Habana 6: 124. 1869 



Type locality: La Loma Pelada, Palacios, Pinar del Rio. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality and to me 

 only from the description, which is insufficient to enable me to 

 group the species. 



43. UNDESCRIBED WEST INDIAN SPECIES 



Coccolobis rumicifolia sp. nov. 



A shrub, 3 m. high, with slender branches. Leaves elliptic- 

 lanceolate, membranous, glabrous, 15 cm. long or less, 3-7 cm. 

 wide, acutish to acuminate at the apex, obtuse, subcordate or 

 acute at the base, the midvein nearly flat above, prominent be- 

 neath, the primary lateral veins about 12 on each side of the mid- 



