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the apex, obtuse or somewhat narrowed at the base, the midvein 

 impressed above, rather prominent beneath, the primary veins 

 about 12 on each side, the ultimate venation reticulated; petioles 

 6-8 mm. long; raceme 8-io cm. long, its axis puberulent; pedicels 

 2-4 mm. long; hypanthium, sepals, and petals puberulent; sepals 

 linear, acutish, 2.5 mm. long; petals ovate with a bluntish point, 

 nearly 3 mm. long; stamens numerous; glands of the disk nearly 

 contiguous; ovary depressed-globose. 



Woodlands, eastern slopes of the southern end of the John 

 Crow Mountains {Harris & Britton 10,741, March 10, 1909). 



Anamomis grandis sp. nov. 



A tree up to 13 meters high, the bark smooth, reddish, the 

 branches gray, the young twigs sparingly pubescent. Leaves 

 thin in texture, the blades pale green on both sides, not shining, 

 copiously punctate, rather prominently veined, obovate, 4-6 cm. 

 long, 2-4 cm. wide, obtuse or sometimes emarginate at the apex, 

 narrowed or cuneate at the base, the midvein sparingly pubescent, 

 impressed above, rather prominent beneath, the pubescent petioles 

 7-10 mm. long; peduncles slender, pubescent, 3-4 cm. long; cyme 

 3-flowered, the central flower sessile, the lateral ones on pubescent 

 diverging pedicels 6 mm. long; hypanthium subglobose, appressed- 

 pubescent; sepals concave, 2.5 mm. broad, rather broader than 

 long, punctate, ciliate. 



Dry rocky woodlands, Great Goat Island {Harris 9307). 



.Differs from A. fragrans (Sw.) Willd., of the Jamaica moun- 

 tains, which has coriaceous, elliptic, shining, short-petioled leaves, 

 and nearly erect pedicels. 



Petesioides subverticillatum sp. nov. 



A woodland shrub, 1-2 m. high, with slender branches. 

 Leaves subopposite or subverticillate, sessile, oblong-elliptic to 

 ovate-oblong, 5-14 cm. long, 6 cm. wide or less, cordate-clasping 

 at the base with rounded auricles, acute or obtusish at the apex, 

 indistinctly pinnately veined and slightly reticulated, punctate, 

 the margins low-crenulate or entire; inflorescence bipinnate- 

 paniculate, terminal, 4-6 cm. wide; pedicels rather stout, 1.5-3 

 mm. long; flowers 4-merous; calyx and corolla epunctate; stam- 

 inate calyx 2.5 mm. long, its lobes semiorbicular-ovate, rounded, 

 about one third as long as the tube; corolla as long as the calyx 

 and similarly lobed; stamens nearly twice as long as the corolla; 

 pistillate calyx 1 mm. long, the corolla a little shorter; staminodia 

 half as long as the corolla; ovary ovoid; style short and stout; 



