1926] BRITTON": WEST INDIAN PLANTS 467 



I have placed this very distinct plant under Gravisia because 

 in general appearance it seems more nearly allied to G. aquilega 

 Mez, than to any other in the Kew Herbarium. But the flowers 

 are not in a sufficiently good state to admit of complete details 

 being given. I could not, however, detect any ligules upon the 

 petals, nor did I find any pollen to examine. The habit of its 

 inflorescence would seem to distinguish it from Aechmea. [N. E. 

 Brown.] 



Piper maraccasense Trelease, sp. nov. 



Flowering internodes brown hirsute-tomentose; leaves sub- 

 elliptic-oblong, somewhat acuminate, equilaterally rounded or 

 barely subcordulate at base, rather small (3.54.5 X 9-1 1 cm.), 

 pinnately nerved from below about the upper third, the rather 

 prominent nerves 5-7 X 2, glabrous and somewhat glossy above 

 and finally bullate, brown appressed-hairy on the nerves be- 

 neath; petiole short (5-scarcely 10 mm.), scarcely winged, densely 

 brown-hairy; spikes opposite the leaves, rather slender and 

 short (scarcely 4 X 40 mm.); peduncle short (5 mm.), brown- 

 subtomentose; bracts concave-inflexed, hairy; flowers sessile, 

 perfect; stigmas 3, sessile, berries subglobose, indented, glabrous. 



Maraccas, Trinidad, (Trinidad Bot. Gard. Herb. 26/j, col- 

 lected in 1845). Type at the New York Botanical Garden). 



Coccolobis quadrifida Britton, sp. nov. 



A small tree with stout somewhat flexuous, glabrous twigs. 

 Leaves elliptic, coriaceous, strongly reticulate-veined on both 

 sides, glabrous, 7-10 cm. long, shining above, the apex acute, 

 the base obtuse, the stout petiole 1 1 .5 cm. long; ocreae mem- 

 branous, about 12 mm. long or shorter, their lobes acuminate; 

 spikes slender, densely flowered, 6-8 cm. long, numerous, gla- 

 brous, occasionally forked at the base, short-peduncled, 6-10 

 cm. long; flowers sessile; buds about 2 mm. long; sepals 4; 

 stamens 8, white; stigma 2-cleft. 



Tocuche, Trinidad {Trinidad Herbarium 11012, collected by 

 R. O. Williams April 28, 1925). 



Elsota lophosoma Blake, sp. nov. 



Branches and branchlets densely and softly pilosulous with 

 antrorse-curved, yellowish or in age fuscescent hairs; leaves 

 oval-ovate or oval-oblong, obtuse, papery, softly incurved- 

 pilosulous on both sides, more densely so beneath; racemes ter- 

 minal; fruit about 6 cm. long, sordid-pilosulous, the cell sub- 

 globulose, about 1 cm. long, each side covered with about 5 



