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523. Tamonea Wrightii (Triana) Jennings, comb. nov. 

 Pachyanthus Wrightii Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, p. loi. 

 Miconia Wrightii Triana, Transactions of the Linnean Society, XXVIII, 1871, 



p. 103. 

 Acinodendron Wrightii O. Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum, II, 1891, p. 953. 



Northern part of the island, Blain, Nos. ij8, 14Q (Millspaugh), 

 General Distribution: Western Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



524. Tamonea praecox (Wright) Jennings, comb. nov. 

 Miconia pracox Wright, in Sauvalle, Flora Cubana, 1873, p. 47. 



Northern part of the island, Blain, No. 167 (Millspaugh). General 

 Distribution: Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



The writer has not seen Plain's specimen, and from the meager 

 description he is not able to say that the specimen might not belong 

 to one or the other species enumerated above. 



525. Pachyanthus cubensis A. Richard. 



Pachyanthus cubensis A. Richard, in Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de 

 la Isla de Cuba, X, 1845, p. 264. 



"Crescit in insula Pinorum." 1831. A. H. Lanier. Type. 

 (A. Richard, /. c); northern part of the island, Blain, No. 68 (Mills- 

 paugh); J. F. Shafer, February to March, 1910; in sandy pine- 

 barrens near the western base of the Canada Mts., May 18, 1910, 

 0. E. Jennings, No. 374. General Distribution: Western Cuba and 

 the Isle of Pines. 



The flowers are rich orange in color and quite attractive. 



526. Pachyanthus longifolius Jennings, sp. nov. (Plate XXIV). 



Small tree or shrub: the young branches, petioles, the nerves below^ 

 and the peduncles stellate-furfuraceous; leaves anisophyllous, cori- 

 aceous, petioled, ovate or lance-ovate, rounded and emarginate at 

 the base, 5-nerved, at length glabrous, 3.5-5 X 5-12 cm., margin 

 entire, narrowly revolute, apex obtuse or subacute; petioles rather 

 slender, 8-20 mm. long; cymes with rather long peduncles, densely 

 few-flowered; calyx densely stellate-furfuraceous, 7-8 mm. long, the 

 tube broadly suburceolate-campanulate, rounded at the base, the 

 limb divided into obtuse truncate-retuse lobes with a thick dorsal 

 tubercle, the lobes about 3 mm. long, the tubercles about 1.5 mm. 

 high; petals verruculose on both sides, rather broadly long-clawed, 



