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Apparently nearest related to B. grandiflora (Poir.) Griseb., 

 which has smaller, obtuse leaves with much narrower petioles. 



Bourreria Nashii sp. nov. 



A shrub, about I m. high, the young twigs pilose. Leaves 

 obovate to oblong-obovate, 18 mm. long or less, 4-7 mm. wide, 

 coriaceous, revolute-margined, densely rough-papillose and in- 

 conspicuously veined above, canescent, reticulate-veined and the 

 midrib prominent beneath, obtuse, retuse or apiculate at the apex, 

 narrowed at the base, the margin papillose-hispid, the pubescent 

 petiole about 1 mm. long; fruits solitary or 2 together, orange- 

 brown, terminal, subsessile, depressed-globose, about 6 mm. in 

 diameter, persistent calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, loosely 

 pubescent. 



Foothills, between Marmelade and San Michel, Haiti, Aug. 4, 

 1905 (Nash & Taylor 1380). 



Nearest related to the Cuban B. pauciflora O. E. Schulz. 



28. NOTES ON PSYCHOTRIA* 



Psychotria ligustrifolia (Northr.) Millsp. Field Col. Mus. 2: 



172. 1906 

 To the range of this species may now be added Bermuda, 

 -where it is locally abundant, and hitherto referred to P. undata 

 Jacq.; Florida: Key Largo (Curtiss 550 1) ; Cuba; on coral-rock, 

 Madruga (Britton & Shafer 776). 



Psychotria Sulzneri Small, Fl. Miami 176. 26 Ap 1913 

 Psychotria pulverulenta Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 456. 15 Au 1913. 



29. NOTES ON VARIOUS SPECIES 

 Juniperus lucayana Britton, N. A. Trees 121. 1908 



Juniperus australis Pilger, in Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 479. 1913- 

 The types of both are from the Bahamas. 



Thrinax microcarpa Sargent, Gard. & For. 9: 162. 1896 

 Western part of Cayo Cruz, Camagiiey, Cuba (Shafer 2800). 

 Not heretofore recorded from Cuba: — South Florida; Bahamas. 



* See Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 433-477- 



