350 Britton: Srupres OF West INDIAN PLANTS 
in moist and wet districts. Recorded by Engler from Santo 
Domingo and from Cuba. 
The inflorescence, leaf-rachis, and venation of this species are 
sparingly pubescent. The races differ greatly in the length of 
the spiny tips of the teeth of the leaflets. 
16. COMOCLADIA DENTATA Jacq. Enum. Pl. Carib. 12. 1760 
Comocladia propinqua H. B. K. Nov. Gen. 7: 16. 1824. 
Comocladia dentata propinqua Engler, in DC. Mon. Phan. 4: 
364. 1883. 
Type LocaLity: Near Havana, Cuba (according to Jacq. Stirp. 
Am. 13. pl. 173). 
DIsTRIBUTION: Woodlands at lower elevations, provinces of 
Camagiiey, Havana, Matanzas, and Santa Clara, Cuba, ascending 
to 420 meters on the Trinidad Mountains; Santo Domingo. 
Field observations indicate that Comocladia dentata and C. 
propinqua can not be held as distinct species; the leaflets vary 
from narrowly lanceolate to broadly ovate, and from sharply 
spinulose-dentate to nearly or quite entire. The tree becomes 6 
meters high in Santa Clara, Cuba. 
Note.-—Comocladia dentata brevifolia Engler, in DC. Mon. 
Phan. 4: 364. 1883. 
I have not seen this plant, described as from ‘Domingo’ 
it may be the same as the following species. 
17. Comocladia domingensis sp. nov. 
Twigs densely short-pubescent. Leaves about 2 dm. long, 
the rachis densely short-pilose; leaflets 17-19, ovate to ovate- 
elliptic, sessile, chartaceous, obtuse at the apex, rounded or sub- 
truncate at the base, glabrous and rather dark green above, pilose 
on the prominent veins and light green beneath, the lower ones 
I.5-2.5 cm. long, the others 4~—5 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, serrate 
with 7 or 8 spinulose-tipped teeth on each margin and spinulose 
at the apex; panicles narrow, slender, loosely pilose, about 13 cm. 
long; flowers 4-parted; sepals orbicular, 0.5 mm. long; petals 
ovate, obtuse, 1 mm. long; stamens much shorter than the petals. 
Santo Domingo (Wright, Parry & Brummell 190, in United 
States National Herbarium). 
