354 Britton : Studies of West Indian plants 



5-7 nun. wide at the middle, 6-10 cm. long, narrowed to both ends, 

 acutish, many of them curved or falcate, finely and closely striate, 

 the upper ones floriferous to below the middle, the crenatures 

 1 -flowered, distant; stipules triangular-lanceolate, 2 mm. long or 

 less; pedicels of pistillate flowers 3.5-4.5 mm. long, very slender, 

 thickened above, sepals broadly ovate, obtusish, about 1 mm. 

 long; fruit depressed, 3-lobed, obscurely reticulated, 3.5 mm. 

 wide, nearly 2 mm. high; seed obovoid, 1.5 mm. long, minutely 

 black-dotted. 



Dry hillside, St. Ann's Bay (Britton 2515, March, 1908). 



Tricera macrophylla sp. nov. 



An erect virgate simple or sparingly branched shrub 1-2 meters 

 high, with rough bark. Leaves narrowly elliptic or lanceolate- 

 elliptic, very large for the genus, flat, 15-24 cm. long, 5-8 cm. 

 wide, subcoriaceous, acute at both ends, the midvein stout, prom- 

 inent beneath, impressed above, the veins numerous, slender, 

 diverging nearly at right angles from the midvein and connected 

 at 2-3 mm. from the margin, the ultimate venation finely and 

 strongly reticulated, the stout petiole 11.5 cm - lon g: capsules 

 brown, finely pubescent, 7-8 mm. long, woody, their recurved 

 beaks 2 mm. long; inflorescence very short-stalked, lateral and 

 supra-axillary; seeds linear-oblong, shining, 5 mm. long. 



Woodlands, eastern and southeastern slopes of the John Crow 

 Mountains at 500 meters altitude (Harris & Britton 10,770 1 

 March 11, 1909, type; Britton 4173, 4 I 93)- 



Clusia silvicola sp. nov. 



A tree, 12 m. high. Leaves firm, obovate, 13 cm. long, 7-8 

 cm. wide, firm, thick, dull, inconspicuously veined, rounded at 

 the apex, cuneate-narrowed at the base, the midvein rather prom- 

 inent beneath, the stout petiole 1 cm. long; fruit ovoid, white, 

 7 cm. long, about 5 cm. thick; sepals 4, broad; bracts much smaller 

 than the sepals; stigmas 8, sessile, oblong-obovate, 8 mm. long, 

 4-5 mm. wide, with a slight depression near the base. 



Wooded hill near Dolphin Head, Hanover, 400 m. altitude 

 (Britton 23 jo, March 18-20, 1908). 



Homalium integrifolium sp. nov. 



A tree, about 15 m. high, the foliage glabrous. Leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, 10-15 cm - l n g> 4 or 5 cm. wide, entire-margined or 

 with a few low crenatures, chartaceous, attenuate-acuminate at 



