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supra subtusque glabriuscula, glandulis microscopicis curvatis obsita et subtus in 

 axillis nervorum barbata, punctis lineolisque pellucidis sat crebris notata nee non subtus 

 reti utriculorum latieiferorum pellucido instrueta, epidermide mucigera; rhachis (petiolus 

 partialis intermedius) marginato-alata; stipulae minimae; thyrsi solitarii vel panicu- 

 latim congesti,' puberuli; bracteae minimae; flores parvi, sepalis minutim adpresse 

 puberulis, 3. et 5. basi usque ad tertiam inferiorem partem connatis; Capsula ellipsoideo- 

 globosa, basi in stipitem contraeta, extus pulverulento-puberula, intus tomento brevi 

 vestita; semen arillo usque ad duas tertias obtectum, testa glabra. 



Rami tbyrsigeri diametro 2 — 3 mm, cortice plus minus fusco. Folia 10 — 20 cm 

 longa, 6 — 14 cm lata; foliola terminalia 4 — 8 cm longa, lateralia decrescentim minora, 

 sicca subviridia vel fuscescentia, nitida; petiolus communis 2 — 6 cm longus, supra 

 sulcatus; rhacheos alae utrinque 0,5 — 1,5 mm latae. Thyrsi 4 — 8 cm longi, peduneulati 

 vel sessiles, tenuiores, rhachi diametro 1 mm vix superante, densius laxiusve cincinnigeri, 

 cincinnis sessilibus contractis; bracteae subulatae, 1 mm vix aequantes; pedicelli 1 — 

 2,6 mm longi, media parte articulati. Sepala duo exteriora vix dimidiam interioruin 

 partem aequantia, interiora circ. 2 mm longa, subpetaloidea. Petala obovata; squamae 

 cristis adjeetis duas petalorum tertias aequantes, latae, margine pilosiusculae, superiores 

 crista brevi suborbiculari appendiceque deflexa barbata dimidiam squamae partem 

 aequante instruetae. Tori glandulae ovatae, puberulae. Staminum filamenta com- 

 pressiuscula, glabra; antherae glabrae. Germen elilpsoideum, pube brevissima adpressa 

 indutum. Capsula stipite 2 mm longo adjeeto circ. 1 cm longa, sicca rubro-fusca. 

 Seminis testa spadicea. 



In Jamaica et in Guba orientali: In Jamaica*): Sloane!; Robinson!; 

 Shakespeare!; Dr. W. Wright! ; Patrick Browne (?)! (Hb. Linne); Swartz (?) 

 (Hb. Banks, teste Griseb.; speeimen non vidi); Tussac!; Murray n. 618! 619!; 

 Macfadyen!; Purdie!; Wullschlaegel n.784!; R.C.Alexander (Prior)!; March 

 n. 649!; Hitchcock! (Port Morant, m. Dec. 1890, fr. semimat. ; Hb. Hort. bot. Missu- 

 riens.); W. Harris n. 7016! (prope Grove, alt. 800 ped., m. Febr. 1898, fr.; Hb. Krug 

 et Urb.), n. 8416! (Walderston, alt. 2000 ped., m. Oct. 1901, fr., id. Hb., ut et sqq.), 

 n. 8563! (prope Troy, alt. 1500 ped., m. Maj. 1903, fl.), n. 9149! (prope Content Gap, 

 alt. 2800 ped., m. Dec. 1905, fr.), n. 10019! (Iron Face, ehester vale, alt. 3000 ped., 

 m. Dec. 1907); — in Cuba: C. Wright n. 107! 107a! HO! 1172!; Eggers n. 4699! 

 5154!; New York Bot. Gard. Explor., J. A. Shafer n.3277! (vicinity of Piedra Gorda, 

 Oriente, limestone formatiqn, alt. 30 — 150 m, m. Dec. 1909, fl.; Hb. Krug et Urb.). 



46. P. costaricensis Radlk. Serjaniae Suppl. (1886) 157 sub n. 138, in J. Donneil 

 Smith, Enum. PI. Guatem. etc. IV. (1895) 22 n. 4766!, Monogr. Pauli. (1895-1896) 

 210 n. 37 et Sap. Costar. in Bull. Hb. Boiss. 2.ser. V. 4. (1905) 322; J. Donnell Smith 

 1. c. n. 6315 (leg. Heyde et Lux, speeimen non vidi) et 1. c. V. (1899) 16, n. 6994 ! ( = coli. 

 Tonduz n. 10057!); P. C. Standley, Trees and Shrubs of Mexico in Contr. U. S.Nat. Herb. 

 XXIII. 3. (1923) 703. - Serjania rhombea, non Radlk., Hemsl. in Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Bot. I. (1879-1881) 207 n. 23, quoad Täte n. 53!, cf. Serj. Suppl. 157 n. 138. - Scan- 

 dens, fruticosa vel »arbuscula 6-pedalis« (Hoff mann); rami juniores teretiusculi, dense 

 pubescentes, mox lenticellarum seriebus notati; corpus lignosum simplex; folia biter- 

 nata; foliola elliptico-lanceolata vel terminalia subrhombea, apice plus minus obtusa, 

 basi terminalia longe attenuata, lateralia brevius coaretata, omnia sessilia, subincise 

 lobato-dentata, dentibus obtusis, membranaeeo-chartacea, nervis lateralibus oblique 

 adscendentibus, supra glabra, subtus densius laxiusve pubescentia nee non interdum in 

 axillis nervorum barbata, glandulis microscopicis plus minus curvatis obsita, punctis 

 lineolisque pellucidis nullis vel parvis tantum (in speeimine a Täte lecto), reti utri- 

 culorum latieiferorum subpellucido subtus instrueta, epidermide mucigera; rhachis 

 (petiolus partialis intermedius) marginato-alata; stipulae minimae; thyrsi solitarii vel 



*} Über die Verbreitung vgl. Favvcett and Rendle, Fl. Jamaica V. (1926) 46. 



