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25. FURTHER NOTES ON COMOCLADIA* 



I. COMOCLADIA PINNATIFOLIA L. Syst. ed. IO, 86l. 1 759 



Professor Urban has pointed out to me that Linnaeus, who 

 printed the specific name pinnatif., more likely intended this con- 

 traction to mean pinnatifolia than pinnatifida, as I printed it, 

 following the Kew Index. 



12. COMOCLADIA PLATYPHYLLA A. Rich. 



The species ranges westward in Cuba into the province of Pinar 

 del Rio as far as Corrientes Bay {Britton & Cowell 9914). 



14. Comocladia cuneata nom. nov. 

 Comocladia acuminata Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 37: 349. 1910. 



Not C. acuminata Moc. & Sesse; DC. Prodr. 2: 65. 1825. 



Known hitherto only from the type specimen, this species has 

 recently been collected by Rose, Fitch and Russell {4185) at San 

 Pedro de Macoris, Santo Domingo. The broadly cuneate leaf- 

 bases distinguish it from its relatives. 



15. Comocladia glabra Spreng. 



In Flora Portoricensis, Professor Urban refers to this species, 

 the C. acuminata Moc. & Sesse, as a variety, and states that it is 

 Porto Rican, rather than Mexican as supposed by DeCandolle. 



18. Comocladia Dodonaea (L.) Urban, Symb. Ant. 4: 360. 

 15 My 1910; Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 37: 351. 29 Jl 1910 



The species extends eastward in the Virgin Islands to Tortola 

 {Britton & Shafer 902) . 



26. ANOTHER WEST INDIAN DENDROPANAX 



Dendropanax filipes sp. nov. 



A slender, straggling shrub up to 3 m. high. Leaves oblong- 

 oblanceolate, thin-coriaceous, 12 cm. long or less, 1-3 cm. wide, 

 rather strongly pinnately veined, acutish at the apex, obtuse or 

 acute at the base, the petioles 2-25 mm. long; peduncle very 

 slender, bracted at the base, apparently nodding, 10 cm. long or 



* See Bull. Torrey Club 37: 345-363. 1910. 



