BRITTON: STUDIES OF WeEsT INDIAN PLANTS 300 
Hydrocotyle Hazenii Rose sp. nov. 
A delicate creeping plant, rooting at the nodes; petioles slender, 
2 to 5 cm. long, pubescent and more pronounced just below the 
_ blade; blade nearly orbicular, 2.5 cm. in diameter or less, glabrous 
and paler beneath, somewhat hairy or glabrate above, the sinus 
usually narrow, the margins doubly crenate, the crenations low 
and broad; peduncle slender, hairy above, longer than the petiole; 
flowers in a small compact umbel; pedicels 1 to 2 mm. long. 
Among wet rocks, Maracas Waterfall, Trinidad (Britton, Hazen 
and Mendelson 1660, April 10, 1920). 
Psammisia recurvata sp. nov. 
Stems branched, about 5 m.long. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous, 
elliptic-ovate, 10-20 cm. long, 7-10 cm. wide, pinnately 7-veined 
from near the base, with numerous curved transverse veinlets, the 
venation impressed above, prominent beneath, the apex acute, 
the base narrowed, the stout petiole 1-2 cm. long; flowers several 
in short axillary racemes; bractlets ovate, acute, about 2 mm. long; 
pedicels stout, recurved, glabrous, 2—3 cm. long; ovary subglobose, 
glabrous; calyx subcampanulate, persistent, about 6 mm. long in 
fruit, its lobes rounded, apiculate, their margins thickened; corolla- 
tube about 4 cm. long, red, the short limb white; fruit globose, 
about 1 cm. in diameter, many-seeded. 
Forest bank, near summit of Mount Tocuche, Trinidad 
(Britton, Hazen and Mendelson 1294). 
Specimens of this plant were mixed by Grisebach with those 
of another and the complex described by him (FI. Br. W. I. 143) 
as Thibaudia latifolia Griseb., subsequently referred by Bentham 
and Hooker to Vaccinium; it would appear that the name /atifolia 
should go with this other species, which, however, is not a good 
Vaccinium. 
Sophoclesia trinitensis sp. nov. 
Pendent from forest trees; stem slender, sparingly branched, 
short-villous when young, 1-4 m. long. Leaves subcoriaceous, 
glabrous or nearly so, ovate or some of them ovate-lanceolate, 1.5- 
3-5 cm. long, from about one half to two thirds as wide as long, 
triplinerved with a pair of delicate veins at the base, this venation 
rather distinct beneath, obscure above, the apex bluntly pointed, 
the base rounded or subtruncate, the villous petiole about 2 mm. 
long; peduncles filiform, glabrous, somewhat shorter than the 
_ leaves; ovary globose, glabrous or with a few hairs; corolla white, 
