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what narrowed toward the base, 4-5 cm. long, 5-6 mm. wide, 

 obliquely short-beaked, loosely villous, black-banded over the 

 spaces between the seeds and along both margins. 



Bank, between Bath and Cuna-Cuna Gap, at 300 m. altitude 

 {Britton 3500, September, 1908). 



Meibomia umbrosa sp. nov. 



Stem trailing, sometimes 1 m. long, densely villous to the base. 

 Leaflets ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 6-10 cm. long, acute or acu- 

 minate at the apex, the lateral ones short-stalked, obliquely obtuse 

 at the base, the middle one narrowed or blunt at the base and 

 longer-stalked, all finely and rather densely pubescent beneath, 

 sparingly pubescent above; petioles about as long as the leaflets, 

 densely villous; stipules lance-subulate, about 1 cm. long; pe- 

 duncles arising in the lower axils, as long as the leaves or longer, 

 slender, pubescent, bearing a few distant lance-subulate bracts; 

 flowers purple; fruiting racemes 1 dm. long or longer, the filiform 

 pedicels spreading, about 2 cm. long; loment 1-3 -jointed, the 

 upper suture undulate; loment-joints obliquely oblong, nearly 

 separated, uncinate, about 8 mm. long and 5 mm. high. - 



Shaded grassy hillside, Troy, Jamaica {Britton 444, Sept. 13- 



18, 1906, type); woodlands near Newport, Manchester {Britton 



320Q) ; nearest to M. axillaris (Sw.) Kuntze, which is nearly 



glabrous, with blunt leaflets. 



Cissus (?) cucurbitacea Britton, sp. nov. 



A woody, high-climbing vine, the stem up to 7.5 cm. thick at 

 the base, the twigs and leaves fleshy. Leaves triangular-ovate, 

 6-10 cm. long, cordate at the base with a widely open sinus, 5- 

 nerved and pinnately veined, remotely dentate with apiculate 

 teeth, scabrous on both sides with short stiff hairs or when old 

 papillose, the petioles 2-3 cm. long; tendrils slender, 1-2 dm. long. 



Dry rocky hillside, Fort Henderson, Jamaica {Britton & IIol- 

 lick 1812, March 2, 1908, type); base of Healthshire Hills {Harris 

 & Britton 10,512). 



An interesting xerophytic vine, of which we do not yet know 

 either flowers or fruit. 



Xylophylla contorta sp. nov. 



A much branched shrub about 1 m. high, the main branches 

 terete, the twigs flat and 2-edged. Phyllodes pale green, linear, 



