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36. ADDITIONAL SPECIES OF TABEBUIA Gomez 



The type species is Bignonia Tabebuya Veil., of Brazil, a 

 species with simple leaves. It is not possible to separate the 

 group into two genera, the one with simple, the other with com- 

 pound leaves, as has been proposed by several authors,* calling 

 the compound-leaved species Tecomas, and the true type of 

 Tecoma Juss. is Bignonia stans L. {Tecoma stans HBK., Steno- 

 lobinm stans Seem.). The two-lipped calyx of the type species of 

 Tabebuia is not constant through the group. 



Tabebuia Brooksiana sp. nov. 



A tree, up to 30 m. high. Leaves 4-7-foliolate; petioles 12 cm. 

 long or less; petioles slender, 1-4 cm. long; leaflets oblong, oblong- 

 lanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, chartaceous, 5-12 cm. long, 4 

 cm. wide or less, faintly shining above with the veins impressed, 

 dull, mostly finely reticulate-veined when mature, and lepidote 

 beneath, with the midvein and lateral veins prominent, obtuse, 

 acute or retuse at the apex, the base obtuse or acutish; flowers 

 clustered; calyx 2-lipped, 10-15 mm - long; corolla pink, 5-6 cm. 

 long, the tube about 5 mm. long, the narrowly campanulate 

 throat about 3.5 cm. long, the limb about 1.5 cm. long, its un- 

 dulate lobes ciliolate. 



Woodlands, provinces of Oriente and Camaguey, Cuba, from 

 sea-level up to 350 m. altitude. Type from Ensenada de Mora, 

 Oriente {Britton, Cowell & Shafer 12985). Referred by Grisebach 

 to Tecoma Leacoxylon Mart, and to T. Leucoxylon reticularis 

 Griseb. The species is named in honor of Mr. Theodore Brooks 

 of Guantanamo, who has rendered important aid to scientific 

 exploration. Tecoma heptaphylla A. Rich, in Sagra, Hist. Cub. 

 11: 106 (not Martius), described as with 7-foliolate leaves from 

 Vuelta de Abajo (Pinar del Rio), Cuba, is not known to me; I 

 have seen no species with 7-foliolate leaves from western Cuba. 



Tabebuia Shaferi sp. nov. 



A tree, up to 10 m. high. Larger leaves 6-8-foliolate ; petioles 

 3-4 cm. long; petiolules 2 cm. long or less; leaflets ovate-oblong to 

 suborbicular, chartaceous, the larger 6 cm. long, 3-5 cm. wide, 

 dark green above, paler beneath, minutely and densely reticulated 



* See Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 377. 



