358 Britton: Strupies oF West INDIAN PLANTS 
Rondeletia pallida sp. nov. 
A tree, 10 m. high, the young foliage sparingly pubescent. 
Leaves thin, bright green, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic, 18 cm. 
long or less, 2-7 cm. wide, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs 
beneath and on the slender petioles when old, sharply acuminate 
at the apex, cuneate-narrowed at the base, the narrow midrib 
rather prominent on both sides with 4 or 5 pairs of veins on each 
side, the petioles 1-2 cm. long; cymes axillary; peduncles slender, 
a little shorter than a petioles; bractlets linear-lanceolate, 
pubescent, 2-3 mm. long; flowers in threes on the branches of 
the cyme, all on slender elabrovs pedicels 3-5 mm. long; hypan- 
thium |} 1.5—-2 mm. high; sepals anaes 
lanceolate, acuminate, nearly as long as the hypanthium; corolla 
white or yellowish, fading brownish, 12-15 mm. long, salverform, 
glabrous or puberulent, the cylindric tube twice to three times as 
long as the 5 suborbicular, rounded, spreading lobes; stamens 
borne near the top of the corolla-tube, the filaments shorter than 
the anthers; style about 3 mm. long, pubescent below; stigma 
2-lobed; fruit about 6 mm. long. 
Woodlands, southeastern foothills of the John Crow Moun- 
tains, 350 m. altitude (Britton 3992, March, 1909, type; 3940; 
4146; Harris & Britton, 10,680, 10,724). 
Guettarda constricta sp. nov. 
A tree about 7 m. high, the twigs terete. Leaves broadly 
ovate; blades 17 cm. long or less, about two thirds as wide as long, 
rather firm in texture, glabrous and bright green above or puber- 
ulent on the veins, pale green or whitish and densely puberulent 
beneath, short-acuminate at the apex, obtuse or subtruncate and 
sometimes strongly inequilateral at the base, with 8 or 9 pairs 
of veins on each side of the prominent midvein; petioles stout, 
puberulent, 6 cm. long or less; peduncles axillary, somewhat 
angled, puberulent, as long as the petioles or longer; cymes pect 
flowered; fruit sessile, oval, finely puberulent, 10-12 mm. lon 
g mm. thick, obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the ridaeieal 
base, distinctly constricted at the middle. 
Wooded hillside, Grove Place, Manchester (Britton 3760, 
September, 1908). The fruit of G. argentea is globular. 
Psychotria subcordata sp. nov. 
A slender tree, 5 m. tall, the twigs and leaves glabrous. Leaves 
lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, thin in texture, 7-10 cm. long, 
