Britton: Srupres OF West INDIAN PLANTS 359 
2.5-3.5 cm. wide, sessile, subcordate at the base, acuminate at 
the apex, dark green above, paler beneath, the midvein rather 
prominent on both sides, the veins about 10 on each side of the 
midvein, diverging from it nearly at right angles, curving upward 
and united 2 or 3 mm. from the margins; stipules apparently 
distinct, deciduous; cyme sessile, 3-rayed, the rays slender, 
glabrous, 2.5—3 cm. long, the 2 or 3 raylets I-1.5 cm. long; fruiting 
pedicels 2—5 mm. long; fruit globose-oblong, red, nearly 1 cm. 
long; pyrenae oblong, 8 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, strongly 3-crested 
longitudinally, with two shallow grooves on the nearly flat com- 
missural side. 
Woodlands, eastern slopes of the John Crow Mountains at 
520 m. altitude (Britton 4144). Related to the Cuban P. auric- 
ulata C. Wright. 
Lobelia grandifolia sp. nov. 
Stem stout, somewhat pubescent, about 9 dm. high. Leaves 
flaccid, large, about 3 dm. long, 10-12 cm. wide, abruptly acu- 
minate at the apex, cuneate at the base, crenulate all around, 
glabrous and dull green above, rather bright green beneath and 
pubescent on the veins, the broad flat midvein prominent, the 
numerous lateral veins arching upward; peduncles ‘stout, pubes- 
cent, about 1.5 dm. long; raceme densely many-flowered, 1-1.5 
dm. long; bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, glandular-serrate, 
nearly as long as the pedicels; pedicels about 2 cm. long; hypan- 
thium campanulate, glabrous, 1 cm. long; sepals linear-lanceolate, 
glandular-serrate, 12-15 mm. long, 2 mm. wide; corolla yellowish 
white, greenish yellow, or brownish, glabrous, strongly curved, 
about 2.5 cm. long; androecium stout, pubescent, 1.5-2 cm. long; 
anthers 9 mm. long, loosely pubescent, two of them bearded at 
the tip. 
Woodlands, eastern slopes of the John Crow Mountains at 
about 400 meters elevation (Britton 4194, type; 4197; Harris 
& Britton 10,725). Related to L. Fawcettii Urban, in which the 
leaf-blade is decurrent on the petiole nearly or quite to the base, 
the sepals narrower and longer, the foliage glabrous or very 
nearly so. 
Bidens Shrevei sp. nov. 
Glabrous; stems woody, diffusely branched, reclining or 
straggling, 3-6 dm. long, the twigs striate. Leaves simple, ovate 
to lanceolate, 5-10 cm. long, acuminate at the apex, obtuse or 
subtruncate at the base, sharply serrulate, the slender petioles 
