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acuminate, 1.5 X 2-2.5 cm -> cuneately subpetioled for about 5 

 mm., cartilaginous-margined, about 5-nerved, at first delicately 

 blue-glaucous. Spikes solitary, short (scarcely 15 mm.) with 3 or 

 4 short 4-flowered joints; peduncle I mm. long; scales slightly 

 ciliolate. Fruit (immature) small, globose, deeply immersed, ver- 

 rucose: sepals inflexed. 



Chacachacare Island, Trinidad (Britton and Hazen 1726, April 

 13, 1920), the type; also from the same locality, on Capparis 

 (Britton, Freeman and Watts 2701, 2708, 1921). 



Of the Emarginatae, but with inflexed sepals, and in this, as 

 well as in its flattened twigs, related to P. Ottonis Eichler of Vene- 

 zuela. 



Seguiera ierensis sp. nov. 



A climber with slender twigs and branches, the prickles 2-25 

 mm. long. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 6-16 cm. long, 

 acute or acuminate at the apex, narrowed or obtuse at the base, 

 or the upper ones smaller and obtuse, the petioles 2-7 mm. long; 

 panicles many-flowered, 5-9 cm. long, puberulent; pedicels 2-3 

 mm. long; perianth-segments unequal, elliptic to obovate, 3-3.6 

 mm. long, rounded, concave; stamens about 20 with filiform 

 filaments and linear anthers. 



McBean Estate, Carapachaima, Trinidad, April 30, 1918 

 (type). Forest, Ortoire River, Guayaguayare Road (Britton, 

 Freeman and Nowell 2527, barren). 



Seguiera cordata sp. nov. 



Twigs slender; prickles stiff, nearly straight, about 8 mm. 

 long. Leaves broadly ovate, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 14 cm. 

 long or less, cordate or subcordate at the base, acute at the apex, 

 or small ones obtuse at both ends, the venation prominent beneath, 

 impressed above, the stout petioles 6-8 mm. long; panicles many- 

 flowered, about 6 cm. long; bractlets ovate, 1 mm. long, about as 

 long as the pedicels or a little shorter; sepals 1— 1.5 mm. long. 



Lobajos near Erin, Trinidad (Trinidad Herbarium Q122, W. E. 

 Broadzvay, May 14, 1920). 



Chrysobalanus savannarum sp. nov. 



An irregularly branching shrub 0.5-4 m - high, the glabrous twigs 

 shnder. Leaves obovate to elliptic-obovate, 1.5-3.5 cm - l° n »> 

 strongly reticulate-veined above, faintly veined beneath, obtuse 

 or acutish at the apex, narrowed at the base, the petioles 1.5-2 



