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8. PORTLANDIA PENDULA C. Wright; Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 126. 
1866 
Pendent on limestone cliffs, Pinar del Rio, Cuba. 
A beautiful species, the pendent habit unusual, the branches 
sometimes drooping to a length of 2 meters or more; the flowers 
are fragrant. 
9. PORTLANDIA COCCINEA Sw. FI. Ind. Occ. 1: 384. 1797 
P. coriacea Sw.; Spreng. Syst. 1: 708. 1825. 
Thickets and hillsides at lower elevations in dry districts, 
southern side of Jamaica. 
10. Portlandia Lindeniana (A. Rich.) Britton, nom. nov. 
Gonianthes Lindeniana A. Rich. in Sagra, Hist. Cub. 11: 10. pl. 409 
bis. 1850. 
Portlandia gypsophila Macf. Fl. Jam. 2: 216; Griseb. Fl. Br. W. I. 
324. 186i, 
A tree, up to 8 meters high. Leaves chartaceous, oblong- 
lanceolate, pinnately veined, sharply acuminate at the apex, 
narrowed at the base, 12-20 cm. long, the petioles about 8 mm. 
long; flowers solitary in the axils; peduncles about 2 cm. long; 
calyx-teeth narrowly linear, 2.5-3.5 cm. long; corolla white, 2-2.5 
dm. long, the narrowly campanulate limb much longer than the 
nearly cylindric tube; capsule oblong-obovoid, 4-5 cm. long, 
15-18 mm. thick, smooth, not angled. 
Wooded river and stream-banks at lower elevations, province 
of Oriente, Cuba; Jamaica? Cultivated in Martinique. 
11. PORTLANDIA DAPHNOIDES R. Graham, Edinb. N. Phil. Jour. 
1840-41: 206 
Gonianthes Sagraeana A. Rich. in Sagra, Hist. Cub. 11: 11. 1850. 
Portlandia longiflora Meisn.; Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 126. 1866. 
A shrub, about 1.3 meters high. Leaves thin, oblong, narrowed 
at both ends, rather dull green, pinnately veined, 7-13 cm. long, 
the petioles 1 cm. long or less; flowers solitary in the axils; 
peduncles 1-3 cm. long; calyx-lobes linear, 1.5—2 cm. long; corolla 
yellowish, about 2 dm. long, the campanulate limb about as long 
as the slender tube; capsule obpyriform, angled, truncate, 2.5-3 
cm. long, slender-peduncled 
