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the apex, obtuse or somewhat narrowed at the base, the midvein 
impressed above, rather prominent beneath, the primary veins 
about I2 on each side, the ultimate venation reticulated; petioles 
6-8 mm. long; raceme 8-10 cm. long, its axis puberulent; pedicels 
2-4 mm. long; hypanthium, sepals, and petals puberulent; sepals 
linear, acutish, 2.5 mm. long; petals ovate with a bluntish point, 
nearly 3 mm. long; stamens numerous; glands of the disk nearly 
contiguous; ovary depressed-globose 
Woodlands, eastern slopes of the southern end of the John 
Crow Mountains ( Harris & Britton 10,741, March 10, 1909). 
Anamomis grandis sp. nov. 
A tree up to 13 meters high, the bark smooth, reddish, the 
branches gray, the young twigs sparingly pubescent. Leaves 
thin in texture, the blades pale green on both sides, not shining, 
copiously punctate, rather prominently veined, obovate, 4-6 cm, 
long, 2-4 cm. wide, obtuse or sometimes emarginate at the apex, 
narrowed or cuneate at the base, the midvein sparingly pubescent, 
impressed above, rather prominent beneath, the pubescent petioles 
7-10 mm. long; peduncles slender, pubescent, 3-4 cm. long; cyme 
3-flowered, the central flower sessile, the lateral ones on pubescent 
diverging pedicels 6 mm. long; hypanthium subglobose, appressed- 
pubescent; sepals concave, 2.5 mm. broad, rather broader than 
long, punctate, ciliate. 
Dry rocky woodlands, Great Goat Island (Harris 9307). 
Differs from A. fragrans (Sw.) Willd., of the Jamaica moun- 
tains, which has coriaceous, elliptic, shining, short-petioled leaves, 
and nearly erect pedicels. 
Petesioides subverticillatum sp. nov. 
A woodland shrub, 1-2 m. high, with slender branches. 
Leaves subopposite or aubveie ee sessile, oblong-elliptic to 
ovate-oblong, 5—14 cm. long, 6 cm. wide or less, cordate-clasping 
at the base with rounded auricles, acute or obtusish at the apex, 
indistinctly pinnately veined and slightly reticulated, punctate, 
the margins low-crenulate or entire; inflorescence bipinnate- 
paniculate, terminal, 4-6 cm. wide; pedicels rather stout, 1.5-3 
mm. long; flowers 4-merous; calyx and corolla epunctate; stam- 
inate calyx 2.5 mm. long, its lobes semiorbicular-ovate, roun 
about one third as long as the tube; corolla as long as the calve 
and similarly lobed; stamens nearly twice as long as the corolla; 
pistillate calyx 1 mm. long, the corolla a little shorter; staminodia 
half as long as the corolla; ovary ovoid; style short and stout; 
