4 BRITTON : STUDIES OF WEsT INDIAN PLANTS 
The very young state of the inflorescence does not enable me 
to give a description of the flowers of this interesting tree, and its 
generic position is therefore uncertain. Its jointed and bracted 
peduncle is similar to that of Dendropanax pendulum, but its 
foliage is altogether different from that species. 
10. Dendropanax grande sp. nov. 
A tree up to 16 m. high. Leaves clustered at the ends of the 
branches, ovate to ovate-elliptic, coriaceous in texture, rather 
prominently pinnately veined, obtuse at both ends, the blade 15 
cm. long or less, the stout petioles as long as the blades, or shorter; 
peduncle much shorter than the leaves, erect, stout, about 4 cm. 
long, bracted at the base; pedicels numerous, about 50, rather 
stout, 2 cm. long; flowering calyx subhemispheric, 5 mm. broad; 
petals lanceolate, about as long as the calyx; filaments rather 
stout, somewhat longer than the petals. 
Moneague, Jamaica, Alexander Prior, May 1850. 
11. Dendropanax blakeanum sp. nov. 
one fifth to one third as long as the blade; peduncle erect, as 
long as the leaves or twice as long, bracted at the base; umbels 8-16- 
flowered; pedicels slender, 2 cm. long in fruit; flower buds ovoid- 
hemispheric, obtuse, 3 mm. long just before the petals unfold; 
calyx in young fruit turbinate, 4 mm. broad; fruit subglobose, 5 
mm. in diameter; the conic persistent style 2.5 mm. long. 
John Crow or Blake Mountains, Jamaica, at 550 meters eleva- 
tion, Harris & Britton 10761, collected March to, 1909. 
Differs from Dendropanax nutans in the longer, strictly erect, 
few-flowered peduncles, and in the venation, texture, and shape 
of the leaves. 
12. Dendropanax cordifolium Sp. nov. 
A tree about 6 m. high. Leaves clustered at the ends of the 
branches, chartaceous in texture, broadly ovate, prominently pin- 
nately veined, obtuse, or short-acuminate at the apex, cordate, or 
subcordate at the base, the blades 2 dm. long or less, about two 
thirds as wide as long, the stout petioles about one half as long as 
