Britton: Studies of West Indian plants :>:>:> 



Elaphrium trinitensis Rose sp. nov. 



A gnarled tree, 5 meters high, fragrant; branches glabrous, 

 often short and spur-like, with brownish bark; leaves simple, 

 borne at the end of stubby branches, the petiole not winged, 12 

 mm. long or less, the blade broadly ovate, 2.5 cm. long or less, 

 entire, glabrous; flowers solitary or in small panicles sometimes 

 only 3- or 4-flowered; pedicels 3 to 5 mm. long, glabrous; fruit 

 3-angled, glabrous, 8 to 10 mm. long; nutlet white, 3-angled. 



Western end of Monos Island, Trinidad {Britton, Britton and 



Brown 2?jq), April 4, 1921. 



Phyllanthus graminicola sp. nov. 



Annual, with fibrous roots, glabrous; stem slender, erect, 

 becoming much branched, 1-3 dm. high, the branches almost 

 filiform. Leaves oblong-elliptic, thin, faintly pinnately veined, 

 4-10 mm. long, the apex obtuse, the base more or less narrowed, 

 the petiole about I mm. long; stipules minute; flowers nearly ses- 

 sile; calyx of the pistillate flowers deeply 6-parted, the linear 

 segments at length about 1 mm. long; fruit depressed, 1.5 mm. 

 in diameter; seeds about 0.6 mm. long. 



Moist grassy situations at low elevations, Trinidad. Type 



from grassy roadside, Carenage (Britton and Hazen 12). In fruit 



February 25, 1920. Related to P. carolinensis Walt, of the eastern 



United States, which has larger fruit and seeds and broader 



pistillate calyx-segments. 



Clusia tocuchensis sp. nov. 



A tree about 18 m. high, the twigs rather stout. Leaves 

 borne at the ends of the twigs, obovate, coriaceous, glabrous, about 

 10 cm. long, 4-5 cm. wide, rounded at the apex, cuneate at the 

 base, rather finely pinnately veined, the short stout petiole only 

 about 5 mm. long; fruit globose, 10-15 mm. in diameter; carpels 

 about 7; styles stout, 3-4 mm. long; stigmas flat, obliquely 

 oblong, the center depressed. 



Forest, Mount Tocuche, Trinidad (Britton, Hazen and Mendel- 

 son 1247). In fruit April 3-5, 1920. 



Terminalia nyssaefolia sp. nov. 



A tree up to 20 m. high, the slender twigs glabrous. Leaves 

 chartaceous, obovate, 7-12 cm. long, 4-6 cm. wide, entire, 

 abruptly short-acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, strongly 



