2 Britton : Studies of West Indian plants 



3. Dendropanax brachypodum (Urban) Britton nom. nov. 

 Gilibertia brachypoda Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 452. 1908. 



A short-petioled and long-pediceled Haitian mountain species, 

 related to D. arboreum, known to me only from Professor Urban's 

 description. 



4. Dendropanax laurifolium (E. March.) R. C. Schneider 

 A detailed description of this endemic Porto Rico mountain 

 tree is published by Professor Urban in Symbolae Antillanae 1 : 



203. 



5. Dendropanax cuneifolium (C. Wright) Seem. 



A shrub or tree up to 6 m. high, the branches slender, often 

 drooping. Leaves spatulate to oblong-oblanceolate, 2 dm. long 

 or less, 1.5-6 cm. wide, obtuse, or bluntly acute at the apex, 

 cuneate at the base, the petiole 1/6 to 1/4 the length of the blade; 

 peduncle slender, straight, as long as the leaves or longer; umbel 

 7-20-flowered ; pedicels 1.5-2 cm. long; petals green, acute; flower- 

 ing calyx about 4 mm. broad; fruit globose to globose-oblong, 

 black, 6-8 mm. thick, the persistent style about half its length. 



Banks of streams and wooded bogs at lower and middle eleva- 

 tions, Pinar del Rio and Isle of Pines, Cuba. 



6. Dendropanax nutans (Sw.) Dene. & Planch. 



A shrub with stout gray branches. Leaves ovate to ovate- 

 elliptic, coriaceous, 10 cm. long or less, acute or short-acuminate at 

 the apex, narrowed or rounded at the base, the veins rather 

 prominent on the under side, the stout petioles very unequal in 

 length, sometimes two thirds as long as the blade; peduncle 

 stout, 5-7 cm. long, bracted at or near the base; umbels many- 

 flowered, inclined or nodding; pedicels 2-3 cm. long; flowering 

 calyx 5 mm. broad. 



Known only from Blue Mountain Peak, Jamaica, where it is 

 reported as abundant. Professor Urban (Symb. Ant. 1: 200) 

 characterizes the umbel as strictly erect, but it is inclined or 

 nodding in all specimens seen by me. 



7. Dendropanax pendulum (Sw.) Dene. & Planch. 



A shrub about 4 m. high. Leaves chartaceous in texture, 

 ovate, acute or bluntish at the apex, rounded or subcordate at 

 the base, triplinerved and rather prominently pinnately veined, 



