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the coasts in Cuba and the Bahamas, differing from the Jamaican 
tree in having blunt leaflets and ovoid or oval and smaller fruit. 
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tree to the genus Schmidelia of the soapberty. family (Sapin- 
daceae), but it is not of that relationship. 
In 1893, Krug and Urbanf described the Bahamian tree as a 
eg 
ichard a: s the tree of Jamaica. Dr. Brittont{ in 
1906 first correlated uban and the Bahamian trees as a 
species distinct from aica , the name 
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mas the negroes call this tree ‘‘black-wood;” while in Cuba, 
according to Dr. Juan T. Roig, the tree is known as “ vanilla- 
ieta.’ 
ithin the past few years eat of a Picrodendron were 
collected in Santo Domingo. 1 by those 
who determined the specimens i them to associate the plant 
with the Cuban species. An examination of the specimens in 
hand indicates that this Santo Domingan tree is different from 
the plants of the eros islands, and may be named and 
described as follow: 
Picrodendron medium Small, sp. nov. 
e with hee Desnchicts and closely hale shoots: 
rs Ss cm. 
peduncle and rachis finely pubescent: bracts subtending the 
flower 3, deltoid, nee I. 5 mm. sd acute, sometimes abruptly 
pointed, finely pube: 
* Ramon de la Sagra, Historia Fiscia Politica y Natural de la Isla de Cuba zo: 
116, pl. 3 
t Boi een Jahrbiicher 15: 
t Bulletin of the N. Y. eo . Garden 14: 139. 
