316 Britton: Studies of West Indian plants 



Tabebuia crassifolia sp. nov. 



A tree, 5 m. high. Leaves simple, oblong-elliptic, coriaceous, 

 6-12 cm. long, 4.5 cm. wide or less, obtuse or emarginate at the 

 apex, somewhat narrowed at the base, when young densely 

 lepidote and dark green above, pale and more densely lepidote 

 beneath ; when old strongly shining, elepidote and with impressed 

 midvein above, remaining densely lustrous-lepidote and with very 

 prominent midvein beneath, the secondary venation slender, 

 neither surface reticulate-veined, the stout lepidote petioles 10-14 

 mm. long; flower solitary in an upper axil, its slender peduncle 3 

 cm. long, bearing a linear bractlet 2 mm. long below the middle; 

 calyx densely lepidote, 1 cm. long, lobed but scarcely two-lipped; 

 corolla light purple, about 5 cm. long. 



By a spring, barren savannas southeast of Holguin, Oriente, 

 Cuba (Shafer 1285). 



Tabebuia angustata sp. nov. 



A tree up to 12 m. high. Leaflets 3-7-foliolate; petioles slender, 

 5-13 cm. long; petiolules slender, 5 cm. long or less; leaflets 

 chartaceous, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 5-18 cm. long, 9 cm. 

 wide or less; dull on both sides, more or less lepidote, at least 

 when young, densely and finely reticulate-veined beneath with a 

 prominent midvein and slender lateral veins, the apex bluntly 

 acuminate or acute, the base obtuse or acute; flowers clustered; 

 calyx 2-lipped, 12-16 mm. long; corolla rosy-white, 5-6 cm. long, 

 its narrow throat somewhat longer than the limb, its lobes ciliate; 

 capsule 10-25 cm. long. 



Woodlands and along streams at lower and middle elevations 

 in wet or moist parts of Jamaica. Type collected on the south- 

 western slope of Dolphin Head {Harris Q253). This tree has 

 been referred to Tecoma platyantha Griseb. 



Tabebuia jamaicensis sp. nov. 



A tree up to 12 m. high. Leaves 5-foliolate; petioles stout, 

 15 cm. long; petiolules stout, 2-9 cm. long; leaflets chartaceous, 

 the three upper obovate, 18-23 cm - l n g> 9-12 cm. wide, somewhat 

 narrowed at the base, the two lower ovate-elliptic, about 10 cm. 

 long and 6 cm. wide, rounded or subtruncate at the base, all 

 abruptly acuminate at the apex, finely reticulate-veined and loosely 

 lepidote on both sides, the midvein and lateral veins prominent 

 beneath; corolla whitish, glabrous, 5 cm. long, its cylindric tube 

 about 8 mm. long, its campanulate throat 2.5 cm. long, its spread- 

 ing limb about 1.5 cm. long, its lobes erose. 



