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cuneate at the base, 3-nerved, in whorls of 4 or more with distinct 
internodes between the whorls; pedicels 3.5 cm. long; sepals 
long-ciliate; fruit ellipsoid, 1.7 cm. long, 1.1 cm. broad. 
Cafiete, Oriente, Cuba (J. T. Roig 69). 
Tabebuia saxicola sp, nov. 
A much-branched shrub, about 3 m. high, the short, stiff 
twigs white-lepidote. Leaves simple, entire, oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate, 2-4 cm. long, 5—11 mm. wide, acute at the apex, nar- 
rowed at the base, the upper surface pale green, loosely lepidote 
and with very obscure venation, the under-surface reticulate- 
veined and densely white-lepidote, the petioles 1-3 mm. long; 
flowers solitary or 2 together at the ends of short twigs; peduncles 
I cm. long or less; calyx narrowly campanulate, lepidote, persis- 
tent, about 7 mm. long, irregularly toothed; corolla 2-2.5 cm. 
long; capsule 4-5 cm. long, about 8 mm. thick. 
Rocky top of highest mogote near Sagua la Grande, Santa 
Clara, Cuba (Léon and Loustalot 9477). In both flower and fruit 
August 12, 1920. 
63. A NEW TOURNEFORTIA 
Tournefortia barbadensis N. E. Brown 
Stem probably scrambling, with the young parts minutely ad- 
pressed-puberulous. Leaves very spreading; petiole about 3 
lines long; blade 134-234 in. long and 6-10 lines broad, lanceo- 
late, gradually tapering from about the middle to an acute apex, 
subacute or slightly rounded at the base, glabrous above, thinly 
and microscopically puberulous beneath. Cymes lateral below 
the ends of the branches, 2-3% in. in diameter, on peduncles 3-5 
lines long, lax, with the primary and sometimes the secondary 
forkings subhorizontally diverging, then branching in a zigzag 
manner, minutely adpressed-puberulous; branches about 3 lines 
apart and 1¢ in. long, very slender, variously curved, with the 
small slender flowers about 1 line apart. Pedicels 4—% line 
long. Calyx very small, about % line long, lobed almost to the 
base; lobes subulate or deltoid-subulate. Corolla minutely pu- 
berulous outside, with a rather slender tube about 1134 line long, 
swollen at the upper part, and filiform lobes 1 line long. Ovary 
and style glabrous. : 
Barbados: Middle School, Christ Church, Bovell & Freeman 
404, and without precise locality, Lane 428 (in Herb. Kew), type 
