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glabrous; peduncles very slender, 2.5 cm. long or less; pedicels 
filiform, spreading, 1-3 cm. long; calyx obconic, about 5 mm. 
long; corolla white, deeply lobed, 5-6 mm. broad; stamens all 
alike, the oblong anthers obtuse, I.5 mm. long, nearly sessile; 
fruit globose, 6-7 mm. in diameter. 
Forests in wet districts, southern Trinidad. Type from forest, 
Ortoire River, Guayaguayare Road (Britton, Freeman & Nowell 
2521). 
Codonanthe (?) triplinervia sp. nov. 
A somewhat fleshy, epiphytic woody vine, 1-2 m. long, the 
young twigs sparingly pubescent. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceo- 
late, 8 cm. long or less, 2-3.5 cm. wide, glabrous, rather thin, 
triplinerved, the apex acuminate, the base narrowed or obtuse, 
the slender, sparingly pubescent petioles 6-12 mm. long; flowers 
solitary or 2-4 together at the nodes; bractlets linear, pubescent, 
acute, 6 mm. long or less; pedicels slender, pubescent, about as 
long as the bractlets; calyx 10-12 mm. long, sparingly pubescent 
below, deeply cleft, its segments linear-oblong, acute; corolla 
3-3-5 cm. long, white, the throat yellow within, its tube slightly 
bent just above the gibbous base, about 1 cm. long, the subcam- 
panulate throat about 1.5 cm. long, the somewhat spreading 
limb with rounded, translucent lobes. 
On forest trees, Trinidad; type from Ortoire River, Guaya- 
guayare Road (Britton, Freeman and Nowell 2543). In flower 
March 25, 1921. 
. Sabicea trinitensis Standl. sp. nov. 
Vine, the stems about 2 m. long, pubescent with dense 
short ascending rufescent hairs; stipules 5-6 mm. long, rounded- 
ovate, obtuse or subacute, finely ciliolate but otherwise glabrous; 
petioles 8-14 mm. long, densely hirtellous with ascending hairs; 
leaf-blades elliptic or oblong-elliptic, g-10.5 cm. long, 4-5-6 cm. 
wide, acute or subacute, abruptly contracted at base, hispidulous 
above along the costa, elsewhere scaberulous, appressed-pilose be- 
neath along the veins, glabrate elsewhere; flowers few, sessile in 
_the leaf-axils, subtended by two green bracts similar to the stip- 
ules; hypanthium about 3 mm. long; glabrous or with a few ap- 
pressed white hairs; calyx-lobes linear, 2-3 mm. long, green, 
plane, obscurely ciliolate; corolla appressed-hirsute, the tube 6-7 
mm. long, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, 3 mm. long. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 1,059,334, col- 
lected in a thicket of the O’Meara Savanna, Trinidad, March 22, 
1921 (Britton 2489). 
