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base, palmately- i pt glabrous on both sides; petioles 0.5-1 15 
long; -peduncled, the peduncles pubesce 
involucre whedon campanulat e, 5-6 mm. high, its eet. 
oblong, glabrous, their tips acute or acuminate; pappus white, 
ong; achene about I mm. lon 
Climbing on shrubs, Loma del Sabicu, Oriente (Léon 10751). 
Chaptalia montana Britton, sp. nov. 
_Leaves oblanceolate-spatulate, thin, 4-7 cm. long, lyrate- 
pinnatifid, the terminal lobe large, elliptic-obovate, obtuse, 
ppe 
mm. long; achenes fusiform, 5.5—6 mm. long, the slender beak 
longer than the body; pappus white. 
Sierra Maestra, Oriente (Léon 10802). 
65. UNDESCRIBED SPECIES FROM TRINIDAD 
Bactris savannarum Britton, sp. nov. 
Trunk slender, up to 10 m. high, erect, copiously armed, like 
the leaf-rachis, with eels gaia deflexed 40m I-5 cm. long, 
ich rin age. Leaves about 1 m. long or longer, 
m. wide or less, light green, paler beneath than above, the 
base attenuate, the apex acuminate or acute, some of the upper 
ones of young leaves confluent; spathe narrowly oblong, 2-3 
dm. long-acuminate, densely pi Panne SE the bristles 
rather soft; inflorescence prt t as long as the spathe, its axis and 
slender branches densely brown-villous; flowers numerous, nearly 
white, ea see m. long; fruit orange, depressed-globose, small 
for the aon 8 mm. in diameter, vertically striate; 
fruiting eice eos flat, about 5 mm. broad, its lobes rounded, 
striate. 
Aripo Savanna and its forest borders, Trinidad (Britton, 
Broadway and Hazen 269, type; Trinidad Herbarium 9850, 
Broadway); Professor L. H. Bailey has kindly sent us two 
ei a of this palm taken by him in 1921. 
petioled, the numerous, unarmed segments pa ‘dm. long, about 
4 : 
Pilea aripoensis Britton, sp. nov. 
Stems filiform, 4-7 cm. long. Leaves membranous, spatulate, 
entire, I-nerved, 12 mm. long or less, the apex roun 
cuneate, the filiform sonra somewhat ates than the blade, 
