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what narrowed toward the base, 4-5 cm. long, 5-6 mm. wide, 
obliquely short-beaked, loosely villous, black-banded over the 
spaces between the seeds and along both margins. 
Bank, between Bath and Cuna-Cuna Gap, at 300 m. altitude 
(Britton 3500, September, 1908). 
Meibomia umbrosa sp. nov. 
Stem trailing, sometimes 1 m. long, densely villous to the base. 
Leaflets ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 6-10 cm. long, acute or acu- 
minate at the apex, the lateral ones short-stalked, obliquely obtuse 
at the base, the middle one narrowed or blunt at the base and 
longer-stalked, all finely and rather densely pubescent beneath, 
sparingly pubescent above; petioles about as long as the leaflets, 
densely villous; stipules lance-subulate, about 1 cm. long; pe- 
duncles arising in the lower axils, as long as the leaves or longer, 
slender, pubescent, bearing a few distant lance-subulate bracts; 
flowers purple; fruiting racemes 1 dm. long or longer, the filiform 
pedicels spreading, about 2 cm. long; loment 1-—3-jointed, the 
upper suture undulate; loment- Aointe ‘obliquely oblong, nearly 
separated, uncinate, about 8 mm. long and 5 mm. 
Shaded grassy hillside, Troy, Jamaica (Britton 444, Sept. 13- 
18, 1906, type); woodlands near Newport, Manchester (Britton 
3209); nearest to M. axillaris (Sw.) Kuntze, which is nearly 
glabrous, with blunt leaflets. 
Cissus (?) cucurbitacea Britton, sp. nov. 
A woody, high-climbing vine, the stem up to 7.5 cm. thick at 
the base, the twigs and leaves fleshy. Leaves triangular-ovate, 
6-10 cm. long, cordate at the base with a widely open sinus, 5- 
nerved and pinnately veined, remotely dentate with apiculate 
teeth, scabrous on both sides with short stiff hairs or when old 
papillose, the petioles 2-3 cm. long; tendrils slender, 1-2 dm. long. 
Dry rocky hillside, Fort Henderson, Jamaica (Britton & Hol- 
lick 1812, March 2, 1908, type); base of Healthshire Hills ( Harris 
& Britton 10,512). 
An interesting xerophytic vine, of which we do not yet know 
either flowers or fruit. 
Xylophylla contorta sp. nov. 
A much branched shrub about 1 m. high, the main branches 
terete, the twigs flat and 2-edged. Phyllodes pale green, linear, 
