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Species Specimens wanted from 



Clitoria Mariana L. Middlesex Co., N. J. 



Galactia voluhilis (L.) Britt. New Jersey. 



Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



SHORTER NOTES 



A Second Species of Hernandia in Jamaica. — The discovery 

 of a species of Hernandia in the western part of the island of 

 Jamaica, some years ago,* the existence of the genus in that 

 island having been in doubt for many years, was of much interest, 

 and the more recent finding of a second species in the mountainous 

 parts of the eastern end of the island is of no less. This tree 

 may be described as follows: 



t/ Hernandia catalpifolia Britton & Harris sp. nov. 



A tree, up to i6 meters high, the trunk straight, rather widely 

 branched above the middle. Leaves broadly ovate, chartaceous, 

 puberulent when young, becoming glabrous, strongly 5-nerved 

 from the rounded or subtruncate base, short-acuminate at the 

 apex, 2 dm. long or less, not at all peltate, the stout petiole 

 nearly as long as the blade; panicles ample, convex, often 

 broader than long, their branches divaricate-ascending, slender, 

 puberulent; involucral bracts oblong, obtusish; sepals white, 

 oblong, obtuse, 5 mm. long; fruit subglobose, 2 cm. long. 



Mountain woodlands. Parish of St. Thomas, Jamaica {Harris 

 .and Britton 10.588, type; 10.566; 10.685; Britton 4061). 



This is probably the tree referred from Jamaica by previous 

 authors to H. Sonora L., of Porto Rico and the Lesser Antilles, 

 which has peltate leaves, somewhat larger flowers and larger fruit. 



N. L. Britton. 



Stangeria or Stangera, and Stangerites orStrangerites? 

 Two Questions of Nomenclature. — In T. Moore's "List of 

 Mr. Plant's Natal Ferns" (Hook. Journ. Bot. and Kew Card. 



* Bull. Torrey Club 35: 338. 1908. 



