330 Britton: Studies of West Indian plants 



glabrous, about 5 mm. long; fruit blue or mauve, glabrous, about 

 5 mm. in diameter. 



Forests, in wet districts, Trinidad. Type from Mount Tocuche 

 {Britton, Hazen and Mendelson 13 16). In flower and fruit April 

 3, 1920. 



Sophodesia major (Griseb.) Benth. & Hook., also of Trinidad, 

 differs in its ovate-orbicular rounded, subcordate leaves and 

 densely pilose ovary. 



Cavendishia Urichiana sp. now 



A much-branched, woody vine, up to 6 m. long, glabrous 

 throughout, the branches slender. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to 

 oblong-elliptic, somewhat fleshy, dark green above, bright green 

 beneath, chartaceous in drying, triple-nerved, 10-15 cm. long, 

 3-5 cm. wide, the nerves rather prominent beneath, slightly 

 impressed above, the apex acuminate, the base narrowed, the 

 petiole 8-10 mm. long, rather stout; flowers fascicled on the twigs 

 or in the leaf-axils, bracteolate, the bractlets ovate, acute, 2-3 

 mm. long; pedicels slender, 8-20 mm. long; calyx-limb with 5 

 short acute teeth, expanded above the ovary; corolla-tube sub- 

 cylindric, about 2 cm. long, scarlet, the limb 4 mm. long, white, 

 with 5 ovate-lanceolate teeth; stamens shorter than the corolla; 

 style slender, exserted; immature fruit subglobose, crowned by 

 the calyx-limb. 



Climbing on forest trees, Heights of Aripo, Trinidad {Britton 

 and Freeman 2364, March 16, 192 1). Specimens were brought 

 from the same place a few days earlier by Mr. F. W. Urich, Ento- 

 mologist of the Trinidad Department of Agriculture, and he 

 guided us to it. The plant from which the type specimens were 

 taken is wonderfully elegant when in bloom, displaying long 

 wands of the scarlet, white-tipped flowers, and is locally called 

 "clove-plant." 



Diospyros ierensis sp. nov. 



A tree, 12 m. high or higher, the twigs and leaves glabrous. 

 Leaves chartaceous, oblong to elliptic, 10-15 cm. long, 7 cm. wide 

 or less, bluntly short-acuminate at the apex, narrowed or obtuse 

 at the base, reticulate-veined, the venation prominent beneath, 

 the stout petiole 10-14 mm. long; fruiting calyx 2-2.5 crn - broad, 

 nearly flat, wrinkled, 4-lobed, the lobes broad and short; fruit 

 subglobose, about 4 cm. in diameter (not quite mature) ; seeds 

 about 8. 



