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Distribution: Thickets at low elevations near the coasts, 

 Oriente;Camaguey; Santa Clara; Matanzas; Havana :— Florida ; 

 Bahamas; Jamaica; Hispaniola; Porto Rico; Mexico. Referred 

 by A. Richard and by Grisebach to G. odorata Lam. 



Illustration: Sargent, Sylva N. A. pi. 229; Man. Trees /. 

 617; Britton & Shafer, N. A. Trees /. 768. 



24. GuETTARDA SCABRA (L.) Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 2: 218. 1793 



Matthiola scabra L. Sp. PI. 1192. 1753. 



G. rugosa Sw. Prodr. 59. 1788. 



G. havanensis DC. Prodr. 4: 455. 1830. 



G. ambigua A. Rich, in Sagra, Hist. Cub. 11 : 20. 1850. Not DC. 



Type locality: "In America." 



Distribution: Thickets and woodlands at lower elevations, 

 Oriente;Camaguey; Santa Clara; Matanzas: — Florida; Bahamas; 

 Hispaniola to Tortola, Anguilla, Grenada and Margarita; Central 

 America; recorded from Jamaica. 



25. Guettarda Combsii Urban, Symb. Ant. 6: 48. 1909 

 Type locality: Near Cieneguita, Santa Clara, Cuba. 

 Distribution: Savannas and woodlands at lower elevations, 

 Santa Clara; Matanzas; Pinar del Rio. Endemic. 



Referred by Grisebach to G. longiflora Griseb. of Jamaica. 



26. Guettarda retusa C. Wright; Sauvalle, Anales Acad. 

 Habana 6: 124. 1869 



Type locality: La Loma Pelada, Palacios, Pinar del Rio. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality and to me 

 only from the description, which is insufficient to enable me to 

 group the species. 



43- UNDESCRIBED WEST INDIAN SPECIES 

 Coccolobis rumicifolia sp. nov. 

 A shrub, 3 m. high, with slender branches. Leaves elliptic- 

 lanceolate, membranous, glabrous, 15 cm. long or less, 3-7 cm. 

 vade, acutish to acuminate at the apex, obtuse, subcordate or 

 acute at the base, the midvein nearly flat above, prominent be- 

 neath, the primary lateral veins about 12 on each side of the mid- 



