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iMonte VorJo, Wright, bl8 ; Cicnfuegos ; Santa Tiara, 7?. Comh.'^, 100; 

 Loma de Jaf|ney, Eggrrs, +909. Guatemala : Retalhuleu ; San Felipe, 

 J". DonneU-Sfnilh, 2607. Costa Rica ; Forests of Golfita clc Osa, close 

 to sea-sliorc, //. Pittier, 990G ; Orosi ; Hacienda Valverdc, at 1200 m., 

 //. Pittier. Colombia : "Bogota ; La Mesa, at 1300 m., Triana. 



I have reduced S. pleiostachys, Schum. and Pittier, to S. jamaicense, 

 S\v., although I have only seen Donnell-Smith's Guatemalan specimen 

 cited by Pittier. This differs from the typical Jamaican specimens 

 in the leaves being more decidedly cuneate at the base, but some of 

 the Cuban and San Domingo specimens are exactly like that from 

 Guatemala. Most of the American species of Safium present consider- 

 able variation in the size and shape of the leaves, often on the same 

 branch. S. anadenum, Pittier, is distinguished from 5. fleiostachys by 

 the petiolar glands being * absent or rudimentary/ but his own figure 

 shows them as fully developed as they are in some other specimens of 

 >S. jamaicense, and occasional absence of glands from some of the 

 leaves has been observed in several species Moreover, Pittier, dis- 

 cussing the affinities of his species, says : * I would place it near S. 

 phiostachys, with which it may prove identical upon examination of 

 more complete material,' which is of itself almost sufficient to justify 

 the reduction, — W. Botting Hemsley, 



"Pig. 1, base of petiole and stipules, attached to the axis ; 2, base of blade of leaf 

 and petiular glands ; 3 & 4, portions of a male flower-spike ; 5, young female flower, 

 attached to axis ; 6, a female flower from which the bract and glands have been 

 removed ; 7, the same detached, and perianth laid open; 8, cross section of an 

 ovary ; 9, a seed ; 10, section of the same, showing the embryo. All enlarged. 



