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Puberulent, leaves 1.5 cm. long or less. 2. B. virgala. 



Leaves oblong. 3. B. oblongata. 

 Leaves ovate, oval or ovate-lanceolate, 2.5-9 cm. long. 



Leaves bluntly acuminate, or bluntly acute at the apex. 



Leaves 2-3 times as long as wide. 4. B. diversifolia. 



Leaves less than twice as long as wide. 5. B. cubensis. 



Leaves rounded or emarginate at the apex. 6. B. montana. 



Unknown to me, except from description. 7. B. Berteriana. 



i. Badiera Penaea (L.) DC. Prodr. 1: 335. 1824 



Poly gala Penaea L. Sp. PI. 703. 1753. 



Poly gala domingensis Jacq. Stirp. Am. ed. min. 252. 1788. 



Badiera domingensis DC. Prodr. 1: 335. 1824. 



Mountains of Haiti and Santo Domingo. This plant is rep- 

 resented in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden by 

 the following specimens: "In montibus, Hispaniola (Jacquemont) ; 

 Sierra del Palo Quemado, Santo Domingo, at 500 meters (Eggers 

 18 gf); pineland, Marmelade, Haiti, at 900 to 1100 meters {Nash 

 jig; Nash & Taylor 13 12). 



Professor Chodat ignores Badiera Penaea in his monograph, 

 and describes Eggers no. iSgy as Poly gala domingensis , not recog- 

 nizing the genus Badiera. Mr. Nash's no. Jig, which is in young 

 fruit, so closely resembles the original figure of Poly gala Penaea 

 L. (Plumier, ed. Burmann, pi. 214. f. 1) that it appears to me 

 the two supposed species must be one; the character cited by 

 De Candolle (Prodr. 1: 335) of flowers solitary in B. Penaea 

 and flowers racemose in B. domingensis is doubtful; the Plumier 

 figure shows the plant in fruit, and in this as in other species of the 

 genus often only one flower of the cluster produces fruit. 



2. Badiera virgata sp. nov. 



A shrub or small tree up to 4 meters high, the branches nearly 

 erect, densely leafy, the twigs finely puberulent. Leaves obovate, 

 or obovate-oblanceolate, rigid, 10 mm. long or less, 4-8 mm. wide, 

 puberulent or minutely papillose-puberulent, or becoming nearly 

 or quite glabrous when old, rounded at the apex, or some of them 

 slightly emarginate, narrowed at the base, the petioles pubescent, 

 1 1 .5 mm. long, the midvein slightly elevated beneath, the lateral 

 venation wholly obscure; flowers several in the axillary clusters 

 or solitary, yellow-green, 2 mm. long; fruiting pedicels 1.5 mm. 

 long; fruit 5 mm. long, the lobes narrowly winged (only imperfect 

 ones with one lobe developed seen). 



