FLORA ОЕ NEW PROVIDENCE AND ANDROS 65 
ingly rusty-lepidote ; petiolules 2.5 mm. long, central, one half as 
long again as the lateral: leaflets 2.5—4.5 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. 
broad, obovate or oval, retuse or emarginate and mucronate at 
apex, obtuse and usually unequal at base, margin crenulate ; veins 
prominent below: leaves thick, sparingly lepidote above: scales 
abundant beneath, the larger ones rusty, giving the under surface 
a slightly brownish tint: flowers not seen : calyx bilabiate, rusty- 
lepidote, at length deciduous, 7-10 mm. in length; lobes acute: 
capsule linear, pointed, subcompressed, 6-0 cm. long, rusty-lepi- 
dote : valves slightly keeled. 
Collected at Long Ridge Cay, Andros, June 20 (758). 
Tecoma Bahamensis sp. nov. “ Beef-bush " 
A tall shrub, twigs light brown, lepidote : leaves opposite, pal- 
mately compound, with five leaflets; petioles 3-5 cm. in length, 
flattened and channelled above ; leaflets all petiolulate ; petiolule 
of the central leaflet about 1 cm. in length, being slightly longer 
those of the basal leaflets: leaflets oblong or oblong-elliptical, 
sometimes oblanceolate, 2-4 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. wide, the 
central leaflet largest, thickish, apex obtuse or retuse, margin 
entire or slightly undulate, veins prominulous beneath, 4-7 pairs 
diverging from the midrib at nearly right angles, surface lepidote 
on both sides, pale green above, white beneath owing to the con- 
fluent white scales: inflorescence terminal, sessile, many-flowered 
cymes : flowers showy, pale pink ; pedicels rusty-lepidote, about 1 , 
` ст. in length: calyx rusty, campanulate, closed іп the bud, about 
I.5 cm. in length, bilabiate, lower lip subtruncate, upper longer, 
usually rounded: corolla funnel-shaped, veiny, pink, about 
four times as long as the calyx; limb spreading ; lobes rounded, 
slightly unequal, margin sometimes undulate, tube pubescent 
within: stamens 4, didynamous, less than half the length of the 
corolla, inserted near the base of the tube; filaments incurved ; 
lamellate, lamellae cuneate or obovate; disk pulvinate : capsule 
elongated, linear, about 8 cm. in length and 7-8 mm. in width, 
slightly compressed, rusty-lepidote, valves coriaceous, subcarinate, 
veiny : seeds oblong, slightly notched below, about as long as the 
striate hyaline wing (218). l 
Collected on New Providence, near Nassau, Jan. 26; in the 
interior of the island, Feb. 26, and at Nicols Town, Andros, 
March 26. : 
Note from Kew, 1899: “ Тһіѕ matches a plant collected in 
