Brittox : Studies of West Indian plants 



the blades 12 cm. long or less, nearly twice as long as wide; 

 petioles rather stout, one half to two thirds as long as the blades; 

 peduncle much longer than the leaves, pendulous, 2 dm. long or 

 less, bracted and jointed a little below the middle; umbel many- 

 flowered; pedicels slender, 15-18 mm. long; flowering calyx 

 broadly turbinate, 3.5 mm. broad; petals oblong-lanceolate, about 

 as long as the calyx. 



Cockpit Country, Jamaica, Harris Q188, from Lapland, near 

 Catadupa; this specimen agrees with the type specimen of Hedera 

 nutans Sw., in the herbarium of the British Museum of Natural 

 History. The species is also recorded by Marchand from Catha- 

 rine's Peak, collected by Eggers, 3651, which I have not seen. 



8. Dendropanax grandiflorum sp. now 



A tree, about 8 m. high. Leaves chartaceous, obovate, 5-10 

 cm. long, 5 cm. wide or less, bluntly pointed at the apex, cuneate- 

 narrowed at the base, rather strongly pinnately veined, the margins 

 slightly revolute, the stout petioles about I cm. long or less; 

 inflorescence of simple, terminal, few-flowered umbels, or rarely 

 a secondary umbel borne halfway up on the peduncle; peduncle 

 rather stout, 3-5 cm. long, bracted and jointed just above the 

 base; flowers 8 or fewer in the umbels; pedicels rather stout, 

 nearly erect, 1.5-2 cm. long; flowering calyx 8 mm. high, narrowly 

 campanulate, its mouth 6-7 mm. broad; corolla 5 mm. long just 

 before expanding, the bud rounded; anthers in the unopen bud 

 about as long as the filaments; fruit oblong, I cm. long, 7 mm. 

 thick, the persistent style 6-7 mm. long. 



Peckham woods, Upper Clarendon, Jamaica, July 7, 191 1, 

 Harris 10QQ4. 



9. Dendropanax elongatum sp. nov. 



A slender tree about 8 m. high. Leaves clustered at the ends 

 of the branches, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, faintly 

 pinnately veined, acute at the apex, narrowed or somewhat rounded 

 at the base, the blade 15 cm. long or less; the petiole one sixth 

 to one third as long as the blade; peduncle shorter than the 

 larger leaves, 8-12 cm. long, bracted somewhat below the middle, 

 the bracts triangular-ovate, apparently nearly erect; very young 

 inflorescence depressed-hemispheric, 8 mm. broad ; the flower buds 

 sessile or nearly so. 



Peckham woods, Upper Clarendon, Jamaica, at 800 to 900 

 meters elevation, January 3, 1910, Harris 108/4. 



