336 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 1316). In flower and fruit April 
3, 1920. 
Sophoclesia major (Griseb.) Benth. & Hook., also of Trinidad, 
differs in its ovate-orbicular rounded, subcordate leaves and 
densely pilose ovary. 
Cavendishia Urichiana sp. nov. 
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-lim 
Climbing © on forest trees, Heights of Aripo, Trinidad (Britton 
and Freeman 2364, March 16, 1921). 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 cm. broad, 
nearly flat, wrinkled, 4-lobed, the lobes broad and short; fruit 
ee about 4 cm. in diameter (not quite mature); seeds 
about 8. 
