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Professor Chodat indicates this Cuban species as occurring 

 also in Jamaica, but this I take to be an error. 



6. Badiera montana sp. nor. 



A shrub, 3 m. high, the twigs densely puberulent. Leaves 

 broadly oval, 4-5 cm. long, 2.5-3.5 cm - wide, firm in texture, 

 quite densely puberulent when unfolding and sparingly puberulent 

 when mature, rounded or slightly emarginate at the apex, acutish 

 at the base, dull dark green, the midvein slightly impressed in the 

 upper surface, elevated on the underside, the lateral veins few, 

 slender, the rather stout puberulent petioles 2-3 mm. long; in- 

 florescence several-flowered; bracts ovate, acute, pubescent, 

 about 0.5 mm. long; fruiting pedicels pubescent, 1.5-2 mm. long; 

 stipe of the fruit 1 mm. long; fruit 8-10 mm. long, 10-12 mm. wide 

 at the top, puberulent, lobed to about one fifth, the lobes rounded- 

 truncate. 



Rocky wooded hill, Arroyo Grande, Trinidad Mountains, Cuba, 

 at about 700 meters altitude (Britton & Wilson 5461, March 11, 

 12, 1910). 



Differs from B. cubensis by its obtuse leaves, larger and longer 

 fruit. 



7. Badiera Berteriana Spreng. Syst. 3: 172. 1826 



Described as with oblong-lanceolate obtuse leaves and re- 

 corded as from Hispaniola. Professor Chodat does not refer to 

 this species in his monograph; it was collected by Bertero and 

 called by him Polygala domingensis, but Sprengel's description 

 indicates that it is not Polygala domingensis of Jacquin, here 

 referred to Badiera Penaea (L.) DC. 



Excluded Species. 



Badiera (?) acuminata (Willd.) DC. Prodr. 1: 335 is Polvoala 

 acuminata Willd. Sp. PI. 3: 887, native of Peru and Chile. 

 Professor Chodat describes it as new in his monograph (p. 46), 

 but the name dates from at least the year 1805. 



Badiera (?) divaricata DC. Prodr. 1: 335, from Para, South 

 America (presumably Brazil), was not taken up by Mr. A. \Y. 

 Bennett in the Flora Brasiliensis. 



