356 Britton: Strupies of West INDIAN PLANTS 
fruit subglobose, red, 2.5 mm. in diameter, apiculate with the 
base of the style. 
Woodlands, southeastern slopes of the John Crow Mountains, : 
350-600 m. altitude (Harris & Britton 10,694, type; Britton 3937; 
Harris & Britton 10,701); slopes, Cuna-Cuna Gap, Britton 4049) 
Plumiera jamaicensis sp. nov. 
An ayes branched tree 8-10 m. high, the trunk up to 
3 dm. in diameter. Leaves firm in texture, the blade elliptic, 
12-1 5 cm. long, ae 7 cm. wide, rounded or emarginate at the apex, 
narrowed at the base, glabrous on both sides, or minutely puber- 
ulent on the veins beneath, the upper surface dark green with the 
veins somewhat impressed, the under surface lighter green with 
the broad nerves very prominent, diverging nearly at right angles 
from the strong elevated midvein, the ultimate venation strongly 
reticulated; petiole stout, 3-4.5 cm. long; peduncle stout, 18 cm. 
long or less; flowers numerous; bracts broadly ovate, acutish, 
1.5 mm. long; pedicels 8-13 mm. long; calyx nearly truncate, 
with 5 short teeth; corolla white with a yellowish blotch at the 
base of each lobe, the tube 1 cm. long, the lobes 2~2.5 cm. long, 
oblong-obovate, obtuse; pods 15-22 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. in 
diameter. 
Coastal hillsides and thickets, parish of Portland. Wheeler- 
field, March 13, 1909 (Britton 4123, type); near Port Antonio, 
Sept. 25, 1906 (Britton 870). Near P. emarginata Griseb., of 
Cuba. 
Valerianoides jamaicensis < mutabilis. 
Hybrids are not often seen in the West Indian flora, but the 
one here recorded seems to be genuine. I found it growing near 
its parents on a roadside between Mandeville and Brown’s Town, 
Manchester, with characters of foliage and flowers exactly inter- 
mediate. 
Lantana jamaicensis sp. nov. 
A vine, climbing on trees, up to 7 meters long, or shrubby and 
1 meter high, or less, the branches long, slender, terete, densely 
puberulent. Leaves lanceolate to ovate, 2.5-9 cm. long, rather 
firm in texture, acute or acuminate at the apex, narrowed or 
rounded at the base, crenulate, sparingly pubescent above, densely 
puberulent and rather prominently veined beneath, or becoming 
glabrate, the petioles 1 cm. long or less; peduncles puberulent, 
2-4 cm. long; heads involucrate, subg|obose in flower, I-1.5 cm. 
