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in diameter, somewhat elongating in fruit; involucral bracts 

 ovate to lanceolate, acutish, puberulent; corolla 6.5-10 mm. long, 

 white or pale pink with a yellowish eye, puberulent, its lobes irregu- 

 larly rounded; calyx-limb undulate, ciliate; stamens borne near 

 the middle of the corolla-tube. 



Banks and woodlands, Manchester and St. Elizabeth. Type 

 from between Malvern and Stanmore Hill, Santa Cruz Moun- 

 tains (Britton iogy, Sept. 3, 1907). 



Apparently recorded by Grisebach as Lantana stricta Marina, 

 but it is not Lantana Ulacina of South America. Certainly dis- 

 tinct from Lantana stricta. 



Lantana arida sp. nov. 



A widely branched shrub 1 meter high, or less, pubescent with 

 long simple hairs and short glandular hairs intermixed; branches 

 slender, 4-angled. Leaves ovate to oval, 1-2 cm. long, obtuse at 

 both ends, or acutish at the apex, densely pubescent on both 

 sides, rather firm in texture, crenate-dentate, the venation im- 

 pressed above, prominent beneath, about 4 veins on each side of 

 the midvein; petioles 2-3 mm. long; peduncles slender, longer 

 than the leaves; inflorescence capitate; fruit oblong, 3-4 mm. 

 long. 



Dry rocky hillside, Salt Pond Hills, Kingston Harbor, in old 

 fruit March 2, 1908 (Britton & Hollick 1824). 



Rondeletia elegans sp. nov. 



A tree, 5 m. high, the twigs densely appressed-pubescent. 

 Leaves rather firm in texture, elliptic, the blades 11-16 cm. long, 

 9 cm. wide or less, glabrous above, sparingly pubescent on the 

 veins beneath when old, quite densely pubescent beneath when 

 young, acuminate at the apex, narrowed at the base, the mid- 

 vein prominent beneath, with about 7 veins on each side, the stout 

 pubescent petioles 2-4 cm. long; cymes axillary, pubescent, 

 the peduncles about as long as the petioles ; flowers all pedicelled ; 

 hypanthium hemispheric, pubescent, 1.5 cm. long; sepals nar- 

 rowly lanceolate, pubescent, about as long as the hypanthium; 

 corolla salverform, 10-14 mm. long, the cylindric crimson tube 

 about twice as long as the 5 tawny-yellow obovate-orbicular 

 undulate lobes; stamens sessile near the top of the corolla-tube; 

 style 3 mm. long, pubescent below; fruit about 7 mm. long. 



Woodlands, eastern slopes of the John Crow Mountains at 

 520 m. altitude (Britton 4143, March, 1909, type; Harris & 

 Britton 10^44). 



