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about 12 mm. long and 7 mm. broad, somewhat rhomboid, or 
obliquely mibaente Stamens inserted near the ine of ~ 
tube, glabrous; filaments 2 mm. long; anthers sagittate, 4.5 m 
long, exserted. Ovary surrounded by an obtusely 5- -lobed dea 
disk. 
Trinidad, without precise locality, Fendler 628. 
Cordia ierensis Britton, sp. nov. 
A tree up to 10 m. high, with slender, finely appressed- mae 
spain twigs. Fest: blades elliptic to ovate, thin, 2 dm. 
ess, scabrate-puberulent, the apex abruptly acuminate, chi 
ae obliquely obtuse or narrowed, the petioles 2 cm. long or 
less; panicle about 8 cm. broad, broader than long, many- 
flowered, its branches slender, densely appressed- Pabescsuel 
flowers sessile, the buds obovoid, rounded, densely appressed- 
pubescent, about 2 mm. long. 
Forests, Trinidad. Type from Morne Bleu (Britton, Freeman 
and Bailey, ts In bud March 13, 1921. This is, as deter- 
min y Mr. N. E. Brown at Kew, the Cordia panicularis of 
Grisebach, a of Rudge. 
Aegiphila trinitensis Britton, sp. nov. 
A shrub, with slender, glabrous branches, the bark nearly 
white, the young shoots brown, short, minutely puberulent. - 
Leaves short-petioled, the blades ovate, thin, small for the genus, 
4 cm. long or less, the apex acute or acuminate, the base nar- 
rowed; pane small, short-peduncled, strigose, several-many- 
flowe red, 2-3 cm. road; calyx obconic, truncate, puberulent; 
asniie white, about 8 mm. long. 
Hillsides and thickets in moist districts, Trinidad. Type 
from St. Ann’s (Mrs. W. E. Broadway). In flower May 10, 1919. 
This is the species recorded by Grisebach from Trinidad, as 
Aegiphila laevis. 
Anguria elliptica Britton, sp. nov. 
A slender, glabrous, high-climbing vine, — Nad slender 
tendrils 15 cm. long or less. Petioles about 2 . long; leaf- 
blades simple, oblong-elliptic, thin, entire, Rhone. 8 cm. long, 
pinnately veined, the apex abruptly acute, the base obtuse; 
he leay 
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scarlet, spicate; spikes about 3 cm. long; calyx-lobes subulate, 
I mm. pone corolla-lobes spatulate-obovate or obovate, 
long, 2-2.6 mm. broad, rounded or subtruncate and mucronate 
at the apex, ot margin minutely ciliate; anthers 4.5 mm. long, 
straight. 
