846 Britton : Studies of West Indian plants 



2. Comocladia Hollickii sp. nov. 



Low, flowering when not more than I m. high, the tallest plants 

 seen not more than 3 m. high. Leaves 3-4 dm. long, glabrous; 

 leaflets 17-21, distinctly petioluled, subcoriaceous in texture, 

 undulate-dentate with acutish teeth, acuminate at the apex, 

 obtuse or truncate at the base; lower leaflets ovate, 3-5 cm. long, 

 middle leaflets (5 or 6 pairs) ovate-lanceolate to oblong, 6-9 cm. 

 long, terminal leaflet broadly lanceolate, long-petioluled, 6-8 cm. 

 long; petiolules of the lateral leaflets 1.5-3 mm. long; petioles 

 3-6 cm. long; inflorescence glabrous, short, about 8 cm. long, 

 sparingly branched, narrow; pedicels 1 mm. long or less; corolla- 

 buds 0.5 mm. in diameter, purple; sepals and petals obtuse, 

 rounded ; filaments twice as long as the anthers. 



Rocky hillside, Bluefields Mountain, Jamaica, at 500 m. alti- 

 tude {Britton & Hollick 2000, March, 1908, type); wooded hill, 

 Potsdam, Santa Cruz Mountains, Jamaica {Britton 1271). 



3. Comocladia grandidentata sp. nov. 



A slender tree, up to 10 m. high. Leaves glabrous, about 

 8 dm. long; leaflets about 29, petioluled, thin in texture, coarsely 

 irregularly dentate with obtuse or acutish teeth, acute or abruptly 

 acuminate at the apex, obtuse or subtruncate and more or less 

 oblique at the base, the lower 4 or 5 pairs ovate, 3.5-6 cm. long, 

 the others oblong, oblong-lanceolate or somewhat oblong-oblan- 

 ceolate, 7-1 1 cm. long, 2.5-4 cm. wide; lateral petiolules 2-3 

 mm. long; flowers and fruit unknown. 



Hopeton, Westmoreland {Harris 9944, Sept. 19, 1907). 



4. Comocladia Ehrenbergii Engler, Bot. Jahrb. 1: 420. 1881 



Type locality: Santo Domingo. 



Distribution: Santo Domingo. 



Note. — Known to me only from the description. A glabrous 

 species, its leaves with only two pairs of entire -ovate short-peti- 

 oluled leaflets. 



b. Lateral leaflets sessile or subsessile. 



5. Comocladia parvifoliola sp. nov. 



A tree, up to 10 meters high, glabrous throughout. Leaves 

 1-2 dm. long; leaflets 7-1 1, coriaceous, entire, sessile, or on peti- 

 olules 1 mm. long or less, rounded or subcordate at the base, acute 

 or bluntly short-acuminate at the apex, the lowest pair ovate, 



