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elevated anastomosing thick blunt crests (about 2 mm. high), 

 the upper margin of the cell bearing a repand-denticulate wing- 

 margin about 3 mm. high, this truncate or emarginate at base 

 of proper wing and not decurrent on it, the proper wing obliquely 

 obovate, about 5 cm. long, 7 mm. wide at base, 2 cm. wide above 

 the middle. 



Shrub, doubtless scandent, branching; petiolar glands slender, 

 peziziform, 0.5 mm. long; leaves distichous; petioles densely 

 yellowish-pilosulous, 1-2 mm. long; leaf blades 2.5-4.5 cm - l n g> 

 1.7-2.3 cm. wide, rounded at base, dull brownish-green above, 

 slightly paler beneath, loosely prominulous-reticulate on both 

 sides, the lateral veins 7-10 pairs; racemes terminating leafy 

 branches, solitary, in fruit 4 cm. long or less, pubescent like the 

 stem, the bracts deciduous; flowers unknown; proper wing of 

 fruit curved at apex, repand on lower margin, with numerous 

 subparallel veins. 



Trinidad: Road to Maraccas Bay, 10 July 1924, {R. 0. Wil- 

 liams, W. G. Freeman, and E. E. Cheeseman 11 246; type in 

 herbarium of Royal Botanic Gardens, Trinidad and Tobago; 

 photog. and fragm. in U. S. Nat. Herb., and in Herb. N. Y. Bot. 

 Gard.). 



A species allied to Elsota coriacea (Bonpl.) Blake and to 

 E. sylvestris (Schlecht.) Kuntze, and characterized primarily by 

 the numerous thick blunt crests of the fruiting cell. The de- 

 scription of Securidaca tenuijolia Chod., of Trinidad, suggests 

 this species, but a fruit received from Berlin of Trinidad Bot. 

 Gard. Herb. no. 2703, described by Chodat as a velvety form of 

 S. tenuijolia, proves to be entirely different from the fruit of 

 E. lophosoma. 



Pedilanthus ierensis Britton, n. sp. 



Stem glabrous, tall, erect, up to 2 m. high. Leaves broadly 

 ovate, rather thin, glabrous, the larger ones 8-15 cm. long, 5-10 

 cm. wide, the venation widely spreading, the apex bluntly acute, 

 the base narrowed, the stout petiole about 1 cm. long or shorter, 

 the mid vein not flanged beneath; flowers similar to those of 

 P. tithymaloides but smaller. 



Penal Rock Road, Trinidad {Britton, Hazen and Mendelson 

 logj). In flower, March 28, 1920. 



Metastelma Freemani, N. E. Brown, sp. nov. 



Stem about 1 mm. thick, with internodes 10-20 mm. long, 

 terete, puberulous along two opposite rather broad lines with 

 strongly curved very short hairs. Leaves opposite, apparently 



