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petioled, membranous, oblong-lanceolate, serrulate, glabrous 

 above, puberulent beneath, acuminate at the apex, narrowed or 

 obtuse at the base, 5-15 cm. long; racemes slender, 7-10 cm. long; 

 bracts linear-lanceolate, the lower ones sometimes 1 cm. long; 

 pedicels very short; calyx about 5 mm. long, its ovate cuspidate 

 teeth shorter than the tube; corolla rose-purple, 1-1.2 cm. long. 

 Peckham woods, Upper Clarendon, Jamaica (Harris 12787). 



Gesneria jamaicensis sp. nov. 



A glabrous shrub, up to 3.3 m. high, the young twigs and 

 leaves resiniferous, the branches terete. Leaves oblong to elliptic, 

 subcoriaceous, 7-12 cm. long, 2.5-5 cm. wide, acute or acuminate 

 at the apex, closely serrate except near the entire, acute or acutish 

 base, pinnately veined, the rather stout petioles 5-10 mm. long; 

 peduncles axillary, slender, 1 -flowered, about as long as the 

 leaves; calyx-tube obconic or turbinate, 6-8 mm. long; calyx- 

 lobes linear-lanceolate, bluntish, 8-10 mm. long, I mm. wide; 

 corolla crimson or rose-pink, its tube subcylindric, 8-10 mm. long, 

 its spreading lobes orbicular, strongly veined, erose, about 4 mm. 

 broad; stamens included; filaments distinct, about 8 mm. long; 

 anthers nodding; staminodium a little shorter than the filaments; 

 style glabrous, 2-lobed; capsule broadly turbinate, about 8 mm. 

 long. 



Ipswich, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica {Harris 12509, type); Mul- 

 grave, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica (Harris 12374). 



Nearest related to G. Harrisii Urban, which has a sulphur- 

 yellow corolla with oval lobes, the calyx-lobes filiform, the leaves 

 crenate-dentate. 



62. UNDESCRIBED SPECIES FROM CUBA 



Scleria motemboensis sp. nov. 



Annual with fibrous roots; culms solitary or few together, 

 slender, erect, villous, about 3 dm. high. Leaves narrowly linear, 

 villous, 1-1.5 mm. wide; inflorescence glomerate-spicate ; glom- 

 erules of 2 or 3 sessile spikelets; bracts linear, long-ciliate, 3-4 

 mm. long; achene white, shining, 1.5 mm. in diameter, apiculate, 

 faintly longitudinally striate, with 4 pores at each side of the sub- 

 trigonous base. 



Small lagoon, Sabana de Motembo, Santa Clara, Cuba (Leon 

 and Loustalot 9405). Nearest to 5. Lindleyana Clarke of South 

 America. 



