8 Brixton : Studies of West Indian plants 



petioles 4-6 mm. long; fruiting peduncles stout, 3 cm. long; in- 

 florescence about 3-flowered; fruiting pedicels about 1 cm. long; 

 bracts triangular-ovate, acute, rigid, 5 mm. long; fruit oblong, 

 obtuse, 2.5 cm. long, 1.5 cm. thick, the persistent sepals broadly 

 triangular-ovate, scarious-margined; stigmas 5. 



Peckham woods, Upper Clarendon, Jamaica, in fruit July 7, 

 191 1, Harris I0QQ2. Related to C. venosa Jacq. 



Maytenus clarendonensis sp. nov. 



A tree, up to 18 meters high. Leaves broadly elliptic, coria- 

 ceous, obtuse at both ends, 8-10 cm. long, 5-7 cm. wide, strongly 

 revolute-margined, shining above, dull, and the veins rather 

 prominent beneath, the stout petioles I cm. long or less; fruiting 

 pedicels about 6 mm. long; capsules oblong, pointed at both ends, 

 15-18 mm. long, 8 mm. thick, roughened with depressed tubercles. 



Peckham woods, Upper Clarendon, Jamaica, in fruit July 5, 

 191 1, Harris 10947. Related to M. jamaicensis Krug & Urban. 



Portlandia Harrisii sp. nov. 



A small tree up to 6 meters high. Leaves orbicular, coriaceous, 

 sessile, 8-10 cm. long and broad, rounded at the apex, cordate at 

 the base, shining and reticulate-veined on both surfaces; stipules 

 broad, obtuse; flowers 2-5 together in the upper axils, about 5 

 cm. long; corolla campanulate, the tube apparently about as long 

 as the limb; fruiting pedicels stout, 6-8 mm. long; immature 

 capsules obovoid, obtusely 5-angled, 2 cm. long, 1.5 cm. thick, 

 crowned by the short calyx teeth. 



On limestone rocks, Peckham woods, Upper Clarendon, July 6, 



191 1, Harris 10975. Only old withered fallen corollas were 



obtained. 



Rondeletia saxicola sp. nov. 



A shrub about 4 meters high, the twigs pilose-pubescent. 

 Leaves thin, oblanceolate to oblong, acute at the apex, narrowed 

 at the base, rather dark green and loosely appressed-pubescent 

 above, paler green and loosely pilose-pubescent at least on the 

 veins beneath, pinnately veined, 7-10 cm. long, 3 cm. wide or less, 

 the pilose petioles about 1 cm. long; flowers in short-stalked 

 globose clusters about 1 cm. in diameter, the rather stout, densely 

 pubescent peduncles 5-8 mm. long; bracts linear, acute, 5-8 mm. 

 long; calyx 4 mm. long, pubescent, lobed to below the middle, 

 the lobes narrowly lanceolate, acute; fruit pubescent, about 5 

 mm. thick. 



