﻿374 Brixton: Studies of West Indian plants 



cm. long, 5 cm. wide or less, acute or bluntish at the apex, rounded 

 at the base, finely reticulate veined and densely lepidote on both 

 sides, the primary venation impressed above, prominent beneath ; 

 flowers clustered; pedicels stout; calyx 12-14 n^^n. long, shortly 

 2-lipped; corolla about 5 cm. long, the tube about 5 mm. long, 

 the campanulate white throat 3 cm. long, the pink limb about 

 1.5 cm. long, the undulate lobes ciliolate; capsule 10-14 cm. long. 

 Limestone rocks and cliffs, province of Pinar del Rio, Cuba. 

 Type collected near Guane {Britton &' Cowell 9772). 



Tabebuia moaensis sp. nov. 



A shrub, about i m. high. Leaves 3-5-foliolate ; petioles stout, 

 2 cm. long or less; petiolulea rather stout, 4-15 mm. long; leaflets 

 elliptic to obovate, coriaceous, 3-5 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, lustrous 

 above, dull and minutely reticulate-veined beneath, the primary 

 venation not very prominent; calyx 10 mm. long, 2-lipped; 

 corolla pink, about 4 cm. long, its rounded lobes ciliolate. 



Camp La Gloria, south of Sierra Moa, Oriente, Cuba {Shafer 

 8264). This is, apparently, the same as C. Wright 3047 , xaiexred. 

 by Grisebach to Tecoma haemantha. 



Tabebuia 



A shrub, about 2.6 m. high. Leaves 3-foliolate or 4-foliolate; 

 petioles very stout, only 3 cm. long or less, petiolules stout,- 3-8 

 mm. long; leaflets elliptic or ovate-elliptic, coriaceous, 5-14 cm. 

 long, 2.5-8 cm. wide, shining above, obtuse, rounded or bluntly 

 short-pointed at the apex, obliquely cordate at the base, dull, 

 lepidote and finely reticulate-veined beneath, the primary venation 

 impressed above, prominent beneath; peduncles stout; calyx 12 

 mm. long, somewhat 2-lipped; "flowers lilac"; pod 11 cm. long, 

 about I cm. thick. 



Pine woods, Baracoa, Oriente, Cuba {Underwood & Earle 1362). 



Tabebuia arimaoensis sp, nov. 

 A small tree with slender, whitish twigs. Leaves 3-foliolate; 

 petioles slender, 1-2.5 cm. long; leaflets subcoriaceous, shining 

 above, with the midvein impressed dull beneath with the mid- 

 vein prominent, lepidote on both sides, acute, the terminal one 

 with a petiolule2-5 mm. long, cuneate-oblanceolate, 4-5 cm. long, 

 8-12 mm. wide, the lateral ones sessile, narrowly oblong, inequi- 

 lateral, obliquely narrowed at the base. Flowers and fruit 



