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petioled, membranous, oblong-lanceolate, serrulate, glabrous 
above, puberulent beneath, acuminate at the apex, narrowed or 
obtuse at the base, 5-15 cm. long; racemes slender, 7-10 cm. long; 
bracts linear-lanceolate, the lower ones sometimes I cm. long; 
pedicels very short; calyx about 5 mm. long, its ovate cuspidate 
teeth shorter than the tube; corolla rose-purple, 1-1.2 cm. long. 
Peckham woods, Upper Clarendon, Jamaica (Harris 12787). 
Gesneria jamaicensis sp. nov. 
A glabrous shrub, up to 3.3 m. high, the young twigs and 
leaves resiniferous, the branches terete. Leaves oblong to elliptic, 
subcoriaceous, 7-12 cm. long, 2.5—5 cm. wide, acute or acuminate 
at the apex, closely serrate except near the entire, acute or acutish 
base, pinnately veined, the rather stout petioles 5-10 mm. long; 
peduncles axillary, slender, 1-flowered, about as long as the 
leaves; calyx-tube obconic or turbinate, 6-8 mm. long; calyx- 
lobes linear-lanceolate, bluntish, 8-10 mm. long, I mm. wide; 
corolla crimson or rose-pink, its tube subcylindric, 8-10 mm. long, 
its spreading lobes orbicular, strongly veined, erose, about 4 mm. 
broad; stamens included; filaments distinct, about 8 mm. long; 
anthers nodding; staminodium a little shorter than the filaments; 
style glabrous, 2-lobed; capsule broadly turbinate, about 8 mm. 
Ipswich, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica (Harris 12500, type); Mul- — 
grave, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica (Harris 12374). 
Nearest related to G. Harrisii Urban, which has a sulphur- 
yellow corolla with oval lobes, the calyx-lobes filiform, the leaves 
crenate-dentate. 
62. UNDESCRIBED SPECIES FROM CUBA 
Scleria motemboensis sp. nov. 
Annual with fibrous roots; culms solitary or few together 
slender, erect, villous, about 3 dm. high. Leaves narrowly linear, 
villous, 1-1.5 mm. wide; inflorescence glomerate-spicate; glom- 
ene ~ 2 or 3 sessile spikelets; bracts linear, long-ciliate, 3-4 
. long; achene white, shining, 1.5 mm. in diameter, apiculate, 
faintly etiadtially striate, with 4 pores at-each side of the sub- 
trigonous base. 
Small lagoon, Sabana de Motembo, Santa Clara, Cuba (Léon 
' and Loustalot 9405). Nearest to S. Lindleyana Clarke of South 
America, . 
