flowers (immature) : sepals 3, semioval to broadly triangular ; 

 petals 3, ovate; stamens 3 ; pistillate flowers : sepals 3, broadly 

 triangular; petals 3, ovate, 2-2.2 mm, long, 1-1.2 mm. broad; 

 ovary 3-carpellary, sessile ; follicles (immature) subglobose, 4 

 mm. in diameter, brown, apiculate, the surface pitted. 



Type collected at Dolphin Head, Jamaica, N. L. Britton no. 

 2318 ; also collected in hills near Kempshot, N. L. Britton no. 



2433- 



Distribution : Jamaica. 



Triphasia Lour Fl. Cochinch. i : 152. 1790. 

 Triphasia trifolia (Burm. f.) P. Wilson, comb. nov. 

 Limonia trifolia Burm. f. Fl. Ind. 103. 1768. 

 Limonia trifoliata L. Mant. 237. 1771. 

 Triphasia Aitrantiola Lour. Fl. Cochinch. i : 153. 1790. 

 Triphasia trifoliata DC. Pro dr. i: 536. 1824. 



Note : The illustration of the flower in Burm. f. Fl. Ind. (pi. 

 35) is incorrectly figured with five petals. 

 Type locality : Java. 



Cultivated and naturalized in tropical and subtropical America 

 as far north as Florida and Texas, 

 r Percy Wilson. 



THE FIELD MEETINGS OF THE CLUB FOR 1909 



In order that the field meetings of the club may be attractive 

 to the members, and also accomplish work of permanent value, 

 it is proposed to arrange a definite plan of campaign for the 

 entire season of 1909. 



This will be done in cooperation with the chairman of the 

 local flora committee, so that the local herbarium may be in- 

 creased where it is weakest, and sufficient material may be accu- 

 mulated to serve as a basis for a descriptive list of the plants 

 growing within the area prescribed by the preliminary catalog of 

 the club in 1888. The specimens in the club herbarium, together 

 with the collections of the New York Botanical Garden are be- 

 ing critically studied and tabulated, so that when the season 

 opens everything will be in readiness for an effective system of 



