358 Britton : Studies of West Indian plants 



Rondeletia pallida sp. nov. 



A tree, 10 m. high, the young foliage sparingly pubescent. 

 Leaves thin, bright green, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic, 18 cm. 

 long or less, 2-7 cm. wide, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs 

 beneath and on the slender petioles when old, sharply acuminate 

 at the apex, cuneate-narrowed at the base, the narrow midrib 

 rather prominent on both sides with 4 or 5 pairs of veins on each 

 side, the petioles 1-2 cm. long; cymes axillary; peduncles slender, 

 a little shorter than the petioles; bractlets linear-lanceolate, 

 pubescent, 2-3 mm. long; flowers in threes on the branches of 

 the cyme, all on slender glabrous pedicels 3-5 mm. long; hypan- 

 thiumhemispheric-campanulate, 1.5-2 mm. high; sepals triangular- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, nearly as long as the hypanthium; corolla 

 white or yellowish, fading brownish, 12-15 mm - l° n g> salverform, 

 glabrous or puberulent, the cylindric tube twice to three times as 

 long as the 5 suborbicular rounded, spreading lobes; stamens 

 borne near the top of the corolla-tube, the filaments shorter than 

 the anthers; style about 3 mm. long, pubescent below; stigma 

 2-lobed; fruit about 6 mm. long. 



Woodlands, southeastern foothills of the John Crow Moun- 

 tains, 350 m. altitude {Britton 3992, March, 1909, type; 3940; 

 4146; Harris & Britton, 10,680, 10,724). 



Guettarda constricta sp. nov. 



A tree about 7 m. high, the twigs terete. Leaves broadly 

 ovate; blades 17 cm. long or less, about two thirds as wide as long, 

 rather firm in texture, glabrous and bright green above or puber- 

 ulent on the veins, pale green or whitish and densely puberulent 

 beneath, short-acuminate at the apex, obtuse or subtruncate and 

 sometimes strongly inequilateral at the base, with 8 or 9 pairs 

 of veins on each side of the prominent midvein; petioles stout, 

 puberulent, 6 cm. long or less; peduncles axillary, somewhat 

 angled, puberulent, as long as the petioles or longer; cymes several- 

 flowered; fruit sessile, oval, finely puberulent, 10-12 mm. long, 

 8 or 9 mm. thick, obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the unequal 

 base, distinctly constricted at the middle. 



Wooded hillside, Grove Place, Manchester {Britton 3769, 

 September, 1908). The fruit of G. argentea is globular. 



Psychotria subcordata sp. nov. 



A slender tree, 5 m. tall, the twigs and leaves glabrous. Leaves 

 lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, thin in texture, 7-10 cm. long, 



