Britton: Cuban Plants New to Science 107 



Family BIGNONIACEAE 



Tabebuia camagueyensis Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A shrub or a small tree up to 7 m. high, the twigs lepidote. 

 Petioles 1-2.5 cm - long; leaves 5-1-foliolate, glabrous; leaflets 

 chartaceous, elliptic to oblong or obovate, more or less lepidote, 

 4-6 cm. long, rounded or emarginate at the apex, mostly nar- 

 rowed at the base, dark green and dull above, pale green beneath ; 

 flowers few together on rather stout pedicels 1.5-2.5 cm. long; 

 bractlets subulate, 4 mm. long ; calyx narrowly campanulate, 

 about 15 mm. long, obliquely toothed; corolla light pink to rose, 

 campanulate, about 6 cm. long; capsule linear, slightly curved, 

 short-beaked, 9-15 cm. long, about 6 mm. thick. 



Savannas near Camaguey (Britton & Cozvell 131 10). 



Tabebuia savannarum Britton, sp. nov. 



A small tree, about 4 m. high, the twigs clothed, below the 

 leaves, with linear, lepidote scales 4-5 mm. long. Leaves simple, 

 oblong-obovate, entire, 1.5-3 cm - l n g> chartaceous or subcoria- 

 ceous, shining with impressed midvein above, dull, with promi- 

 nent midvein and finely reticulated beneath, the petioles 4-5 mm. 

 long ; flowers few, on pedicels about 5 mm. long ; calyx narrowly 

 campanulate, 8-10 mm. long, 2-lobed, the lobes acute; corolla 

 pink, about 4 mm. long. 



Savannas near Camaguey (Britton & Cowell 13202) . 



Tabebuia Cowellii Britton, sp. nov. 



A tree 7-10 m. high, the twigs stout, short, bearing several 

 or numerous thick ovate to lanceolate scales 1-2 mm. long below 

 the leaves. Leaves oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate or some 

 of them obovate, coriaceous, 1.5-5 cm - l n .g> finely lepidote, incon- 

 spicuously finely reticulate-veined beneath, retuse or rounded at 

 the apex, cuneate at the base, the midvein prominent beneath, the 

 petiole 3 mm. long or less ; flowers few together or solitary ; pedi- 

 cels 3-5 mm. long; calyx narrowly campanulate, 5-6 mm. long, 

 loosely lepidote, unequally 5-toothed, the teeth ovate ; corolla pink, 

 4-5 cm. long; capsule linear* straight, 10-13 cm - long- 

 Hillsides and plains, southern Oriente, along the coast. Type 

 from Conde Beach, Guantanamo Bay (Britton 2132). 



COTEMA Britton & Wilson, gen. nov. 



Trees, with 1-5-foliolate slender-petioled leaves, and rather 

 large, long-pedicelled lateral or axillary flowers, solitary or few 



