208 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Tetrazygia angustiflo^a var. argyrophylla Grisebach, Flora of the British West 



Indian Islands, i860, p. 254. 

 Miconia hicolor Triana, Transactions of the Linnean Society, London, XXVIII, 



1871, p. 103. 

 Tetrazygia hicolor Cogniaux, in DeCandoUe, Monographiae Phanerogamarum, VII, 



1891, p. 724- 



Northern part of the island, Blain, No. iji, (Millspaugh, as 

 Tetrazygia argyrophylla); near Nueva Gerona, April 5, 1904, A. H. 

 Curtiss, No. 414; in swampy place in the savanna east of Nueva 

 Gerona, May 6, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 57; in savanna southwest 

 of Nueva Gerona, May 9, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 171; a small 

 tree along the arroyo south of Sante Fe, May 25, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 544. General Distribution: The Bahamas, southern Florida, 

 Cuba, and the Isle of Pines. {See Plate XV.) 



518. Tamonea tomentosa var. auriculata Jennings, var. nov. 



(Plate XXII.) 



Leaves broadly ovate, auricled at base, the petioles about 2-3 cm. 

 long, the margin very shortly crenate. 



Folia late ovata, basi auriculata, petiolis circiter 2-3 cm. longis, 

 margine brevissime dense crenatis. 



In a fresh-water jungle near Los Indios, May 20, 1910, No. 442, 

 0. E. Jennings, Type. A slender tree about fifteen feet high, with 

 pink flowers. 



Tamonea tomentosa, ranging from Trinidad to Guiana and Brazil, 

 apparently varies considerably in the shape of the base of the leaf, 

 but it is possible that the plant here described as a variety may prove 

 to be a distinct species. The brown-tomentose character of the 

 axis and branches of the inflorescence and of the under side of the 

 leaves makes it a striking plant. The upper surface of the leaves 

 is only slightly stellate-pubescent and turns blackish in drying. The 

 leaves are 9-nerved, the outermost nerve being rather indistinct and 

 bordering closely the bases of the low closely approximate crenations, 

 the innermost nerve being placed about half-way between the mid- 

 nerve and the margin. The inflorescence is compact, in our specimen 

 being 6 cm. in diameter by 19 cm. long. Calyx-tube about 10-12 

 mm. long, the lower third about 4 mm. in diameter, cylindric, the 

 upper third abruptly enlarging into a campanulate portion with 

 widely rounded lobes only about 'i mm. high, and tuberculate on 



