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beneath, chartaceous, glabrous, minutely pellucid-glandular ; petiole short, 2 mm. long ; 

 inflorescence short, few-flowered ; pedicels short, 3 mm. long ; sepals unequal, linear-oblong 

 to elliptic, erect, pilose and glandular on the outside, the two outer 5 mm. long, 2 mm. 

 broad, the three inner 3 mm. long, 1 mm. broad ; corolla-tube 5 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, the 

 lobes fleshy, suberect, oblong, elliptic to oblong-ovate, 5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, pel- 

 lucid-glandular ; filaments glandular ; lobes of the disk 0.5 mm. long ; ovary oblong, 1.5 

 mm. long ; style 1.5 mm. long. 



Type locality: Jamaica. 



Distribution : Jamaica ; known onl} - from the type collection. 



Illustration : Miers, loc. cit. pi. 1, D. 



4. RAVENIA Veil. Fl. Flum. 20. 1825. 



Lemonia Lindl. Bot. Reg. 26 : pi. 59. 1840. 



.Shrubs or trees with showy flow-ers. Leaves opposite, simple or compound, entire, 

 glandular-punctate. Inflorescence terminal and axillary, few-flowered. Flowers perfect. 

 Sepals 4 or 5, imbricate, unequal, the two outer larger than the inner ones. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped, the lobes 4 or 5, unequal. Stamens 4 or 5, the two inferior fertile, the superior 

 ones sterile ; filaments adnate to the tube of the corolla, the tips of the sterile ones free, 

 linear or subulate, flattened ; anthers longitudinally dehiscent. Disk cup-shaped. Ovary 

 4- or 5-lobed, 4- or 5-celled, immersed in the disk; style filiform; stigma 4- or 5-lobed. 

 Ovules 2 in each cell, superimposed. Fruit composed of 1-5, 2-valved carpels. Seeds 1 

 or 2 in each carpel, with a crustaceous testa, enclosed in the elastic horny endocarp ; embryo 

 curved; cotyledons 2-lobed, conduplicate. 



Type species, Ravenia infelix Veil. 



Leaves simple. 



Flowers 4-rnerous. 1. R. Shaferi. 



Flowers 5-merous. 



Outer sepals linear or oblong-linear ; leaves sessile or short-petioled, 

 elliptic to suborbicular, usually rounded and slightly cordate at the 

 base, 3.5-8.5 cm. broad. 2. R. Urbani. 



Outer sepals narrowly to broadly ovate ; leaves distinctly petioled, 

 oblong to elliptic or obovate, acute or cuneate at the base, 1-3 cm. 

 broad. 3. R. simplici/qlia. 



Leaves trifoliolate. 4. R. spectahilis. 



1. Ravenia Shaferi P. Wilson, Bull. Torrey Club 37 : 437. 1910. 

 A glabrous shrub or tree 4-7 m. tall, with a grayish bark; leaves simple, elliptic to 

 ovate, or somewhat obovate, 3.5-10 cm. long, 1.8-5 cm. broad, sessile or subsessile, entire, 

 more or less revolute-margined, acute or occasionally obtuse at the apex, acute or somewhat 

 rounded at the base, glandular-punctate ; inflorescence 2-6-flowered ; sepals 4, very un- 

 equal, the two outer ovate to broadly ovate, 1-1.8 cm. long, 0.6-1.2 cm. broad, the two 

 inner ovate to nearly oval, 5-8 mm. long, 4.5-5.5 mm. broad, all glandular-punctate ; 

 corolla "red," glandular-punctate, the tube cylindric, 1.2-1.5 cm. long, the lobes 4, un- 

 equal, oblong to oblong-obovate, 1.4-2 cm. long, 0.8-1 cm. broad ; stamens 4, the two infe- 

 rior ones fertile, sessile, the two superior ones sterile, linear to subulate, flattened ; disk 

 cup-shaped; ovary 4-lobed, 4-celled, immersed in the disk ; style filiform ; stigma 4-lobed. 



Type locality: Alluvial valley of Rio Yamaniguey, Province of Oriente, Cuba. 

 Distribution : Eastern Cuba. 



2. Ravenia Urbani Engler ; Urban, Bot. Jahrb. 21 : 552. 1896. 

 A forest tree with a grayish-brown bark, attaining a height of 8-16 m.; leaves simple, 

 elliptic to suborbicular or ovate, 5-15 cm. long, 3.5-8.5 cm. broad, rounded, obtuse, retuse, 

 acute, or somewhat acuminate at the apex, rounded and slightly cordate at the base, dark- 

 green above, paler beneath, glabrous on both surfaces, leathery, glandular-punctate, short- 

 petioled or sessile; inflorescence mostly 3-7-flowered ; pedicels short; sepals very unequal, 

 the two outer linear or oblong-linear, 6-13 mm. long, 2-4 mm. broad, the three inner much 

 shorter, ovate, oval, or elliptic, 1.5-4 mm. long, mostly 3-4 mm. broad ; corolla rose-purple, 

 densely glandular, the tube cylindric, 1-1.8 cm. long, the lobes unequal, oblong to ovate, 



