348 Britton : Studies of West Indian plants 



Note. Recorded by Grisebach from Jamaica as C. propinqua, 

 which it little resembles. 



10. Comocladia pilosa sp. nov. 



A tree, 6 meters high, the young twigs, leaves, and inflores- 

 cence densely pilose-pubescent. Leaves about 7 dm. long; leaf- 

 lets about 19, chartaceous, dark green above, paler beneath, 

 entire-margined, the lateral ones sessile, or on petiolules about 

 1 mm. long, cordate or subtruncate at the base, obtuse, acutish 

 or abruptly short-acuminate at the apex; lowest pair of leaflets 

 suborbicular, 4-5 cm. long; second and third pairs ovate-orbicular, 

 5-8 cm. long, the others oblong or ovate-oblong, 9-14 cm. long, 

 4-5 cm. wide; terminal leaflet long-stalked; panicles several, 

 shorter than the leaves, 2.5 dm. long or less, the branches rather 

 stout; calyx with a few scattered hairs, the sepals rounded; petals 

 a little longer than the sepals, rounded; filaments twice as long 

 as the anthers. 



Wooded hill, Union Hill, near Moneague, Parish of St. Ann's, 



Jamaica {Britton & Hollick 2762, April, 1908). 



11. Comocladia undulata Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 401. 1908 

 Type locality: Martinique. 



Distribution: Known only from Martinique. 



2. Teeth of the leaves bristle-tipped. 

 A . Glabrous species. 



12. Comocladia platyphylla A. Rich.; Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 



68. 1866 



Type locality: Cuba [Rugel 277, the type specimen, is from 

 Matanzas]. 



Distribution: Cuba, at lower altitudes, provinces of Oriente, 

 Camagiiey, Santa Clara, Matanzas, and Havana. 



Note. Lower leaflets ovate, the others mostly oblong. Engler 

 (DC. Mon. Phan. 6: 365) describes a specimen with all the leaflets 

 ovate, long-stalked, and with only 3 or 4 teeth on each margin. 

 The number of teeth is often 9 on each margin. The species 

 consists of a number of races, differing in width of leaflets, length 

 of petiolules and number of teeth on the leaf-margins, the 

 extremes appearing quite different from each other. 



A. Richard (in Sagra, Hist. Cub. 10: 155. 1850) remarks 



