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glabrous; peduncles very slender, 2.5 cm. long or less; pedicels 

 filiform, spreading, 1-3 cm. long; calyx obconic, about 5 mm. 

 long; corolla white, deeply lobed, 5-6 mm. broad; stamens all 

 alike, the oblong anthers obtuse, 1.5 mm. long, nearly -essile; 

 fruit globose, 6-7 mm. in diameter. 



Forests in wet districts, southern Trinidad. Type from foresl . 

 Ortoire River, Guayaguayare Road {Britton, Freeman & Nowell 



2521). 



Codonanthe (?) triplinervia sp. now 



A somewhat fleshy, epiphytic woody vine, 1-2 m. long, the 

 young twigs sparingly pubescent. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceo- 

 late, 8 cm. long or less, 2-3.5 cm - wide, glabrous, rather thin, 

 triplinerved, the apex acuminate,, the base narrowed or obtuse, 

 the slender, sparingly pubescent petioles 6-12 mm. long; flowers 

 solitary or 2-4 together at the nodes; bractlets linear, pubescent, 

 acute, 6 mm. long or less; pedicels slender, pubescent, about as 

 long as the bractlets; calyx 10-12 mm. long, sparingly pubescent 

 below, deeply cleft, its segments linear-oblong, acute; corolla 

 3-3.5 cm. long, white, the throat yellow within, its tube slightly 

 bent just above the gibbous base, about 1 cm. long, the subcam- 

 panulate throat about 1.5 cm. long, the somewhat spreading 

 limb with rounded, translucent lobes. 



On forest trees, Trinidad; type from Ortoire River, Guaya- 

 guayare Road {Britton, Freeman and Nowell 23 4 j). In flower 

 March 25, 1921. 



Sabicea trinitensis Standi, sp. nov. 



Vine, the stems about 2 m. long, pubescent with dense 

 short ascending rufescent hairs; stipules 5-6 mm. long, rounded- 

 ovate, obtuse or subacute, finely ciliolate but otherwise glabrous; 

 petioles 8-14 mm. long, densely hirtellous with ascending hairs; 

 leaf-blades elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 9-10.5 cm. long, 4.5-6 cm. 

 wide, acute or subacute, abruptly contracted at base, hispidulous 

 above along the costa, elsewhere scaberulous, appressed-pilose be- 

 neath along the veins, glabrate elsewhere; flowers few, sessile in 

 the leaf-axils, subtended by two green bracts similar to the stip- 

 ules; hypanthium about 3 mm. long; glabrous or with a few up- 

 pressed white hairs; calyx-lobes linear, 2-3 mm. long, green, 

 plane, obscurely ciliolate; corolla appressed-hirsute, the tube 6-7 

 mm. long, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, 3 mm. long. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 1,059,334, col- 

 lected in a thicket of the O'Meara Savanna, Trinidad, March 22, 

 1 92 1 {Britton 2489). 



