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cuneate at the base, 3-nerved, in whorls of 4 or more with distinct 

 internodes between the whorls; pedicels 3.5 cm. long; sepals 

 long-ciliate; fruit ellipsoid, 1.7 cm. long, 1.1 cm. broad. 

 Canete, Oriente, Cuba (J. T. Roig 69). 



Tabebuia saxicola sp. nov. 



A much-branched shrub, about 3 m. high, the short, stiff 

 twigs white-lepidote. Leaves simple, entire, oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, 2-4 cm. long, 5-1 1 mm. wide, acute at the apex, nar- 

 rowed at the base, the upper surface pale green, loosely lepidote 

 and with very obscure venation, the under-surface reticulate- 

 veined and densely white-lepidote, the petioles 1-3 mm. long; 

 flowers solitary or 2 together at the ends of short twigs; peduncles 

 1 cm. long or less; calyx narrowly campanulate, lepidote, persis- 

 tent, about 7 mm. long, irregularly toothed; corolla 2-2.5 cm - 

 long; capsule 4-5 cm. long, about 8 mm. thick. 



Rocky top of highest mogote near Sagua la Grande, Santa 

 Clara, Cuba {Leon and Loustalot 9477). In both flower and fruit 

 August 12, 1920. 



63. A NEW TOURNEFORTIA 

 Tournefortia barbadensis X. E. Brown 



Stem probably scrambling, with the young parts minutely ad- 

 pressed-puberulous. Leaves very spreading; petiole about 3 

 lines long; blade 1^-2^ in. long and 6-10 lines broad, lanceo- 

 late, gradually tapering from about the middle to an acute apex, 

 subacute or slightly rounded at the base, glabrous above, thinly 

 and microscopically puberulous beneath. Cymes lateral below 

 the ends of the branches, 2-3^ in. in diameter, on peduncles 3-5 

 lines long, lax, with the primary and sometimes the secondary 

 forkings subhorizontally diverging, then branching in a zigzag 

 manner, minutely adpressed-puberulous; branches about 3 lines 

 apart and ^3 in. long, very slender, variously curved, with the 

 small slender flowers about 1 line apart. Pedicels ^4-^ line 

 long. Calyx very small, about yi line long, lobed almost to the 

 base; lobes subulate or deltoid-subulate. Corolla minutely pu- 

 berulous outside, with a rather slender tube about \]A, line long, 

 swollen at the upper part, and filiform lobes 1 line long. Ovary 

 and style glabrous. 



Barbados: Middle School, Christ Church, Bovell & Freeman 

 404, and without precise locality, Lane 428 (in Herb. Kew), type 



