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cm. long, clustered at the ends of the twigs ; rachis pubescent with 

 spreading hairs; leaflets 3-7, coriaceous, ovate 3-6 cm. long, 1.5 

 -3 cm. wide, entire-margined, obliquely rounded at the base, short- 

 acuminate at the apex, glabrous or very nearly so when old, very 

 inconspicuously veined above, rather prominently veined beneath ; 

 petiolules stout, 3-5 mm. long ; fruiting inflorescence 4-7 cm. 

 long, the raceme simple or slightly compound, its axis pubescent ; 

 fruits 8-10 mm. long, about 7 mm. thick, bluntly triangular, on 

 stout pedicels 4 or 5 mm. long ; seed sharply 3-angled. 



Dry rocky hillside. Fort Henderson, Kingston Harbor, Ja- 

 maica (A^. L. Britton & Arthur Hollick, March 2, 1908, no. 18 16). 



3. Terebinthus simplicifolia (DC.) 



Bursera simplicifolia DC. Prodr. 2 : 78. 182 15. 



Frequent on dry hillsides near the southern coast of Jamaica, 

 becoming at least 1 3 meters high. 



4. Terebinthus glauca (Griseb.) 



Bursera glaiica Griseb. Cat. PI. Cuba 66. 1866. 

 Cuba. 



5. Terebinthus angustata (Griseb.) 

 Bursera angjistata Griseb. Cat. PI, Cuba 65. 1866. 

 Cuba. 



6. Terebinthus inaguensis (Britton) 



Bursera inaguensis Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 443. 1905. 



Bahama Islands, from Eleuthera and Great Guana Cay to 

 Inagua. 



Combs ^5^, from Calicita, Santa Clara Province, Cuba, resem- 

 bles this very closely, more closely than it does T. angustata. 



7. Terebinthus Nashii sp. nov. 



A tree about 3 m. high with nearly smooth terete twigs, 

 glabrous throughout. Leaves 1-3-foliolate, the slender petiole 

 5-15 mm. long, somewhat glaucous; leaflets linear-oblong, nar- 

 rowed at the base, obtuse or acutish and mucronulate at the apex, 

 3-5 cm. long, I- 1. 5 cm. wide, pale green, very indistinctly veined 

 on both sides, chartaceous ; fruiting inflorescence short, few- 

 fruited, 2 cm. long or less; fruits 6-7 mm. long, nearly as thick 

 as long, borne on short stalks, 2-5 mm. long, the calyx persistent 

 at their bases. 



