BriTToN: CusANn Prants New To Scrence 107 
Family BIGNONIACEAE 
Tabebuia camagueyensis Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A shrub or a small tree up to 7 m. high, the twigs lepidote. 
Petioles 1-2.5 cm. long; leaves 5~-1-foliolate, glabrous; leaflets 
chartaceous, elliptic to oblong or obovate, more or less lepidote, 
4 m. long, rounded or emarginate at the apex, mostly nar- 
rowed at the base, dark green and dull above, pale green beneath; 
flowers few together on rather stout pedicels 1.5-2.5 cm. long; 
bractlets subulate, 4 mm. long; calyx narrowly campanulate, 
about 15 mm. long, obliquely toothed; corolla light pink to rose, 
campanulate, about 6 cm. long; capsule linear, slightly curved, 
short-beaked, 9-15 cm. long, about 6 mm. thick. 
Savannas near Camaguey (Britton & Cowell 13110). 
Tabebuia savannarum Britton, sp. nov. 
A small tree, about 4 m. high, the twigs clothed, below the 
leaves, with linear, lepidote scales 4-5 mm. long. Leaves simple, 
oblong-obovate, entire, 1.5-3 cm. long, chartaceous or subcoria- 
ceous, shining with impressed midvein above, dull, with promi- 
nent midvein and finely reticulated beneath, the petioles 4-5 mm. 
long ; flowers few, on pedicels about 5 mm. long; calyx narrowly 
campanulate, 8-10 mm. long, 2-lobed, the lobes acute; corolla 
pink, about 4 mm. long. 
Savannas near Camaguey (Britton & Cowell 13202). 
Tabebuia Cowellii Britton, sp. nov. 
A tree 7-10 m. high, the twigs stout, short, bearing several 
or numerous thick ovate to lanceolate scales I-2 mm. long below 
the leaves. Leaves oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate or some 
of them obovate, coriaceous, I.5-5 cm. long, finely lepidote, incon- 
spicuously finely reticulate-veined beneath, retuse or rounded at 
the apex, cuneate at the base, the midvein prominent beneath, the 
petiole 3 mm. long or less; flowers few together or solitary ; pedi- 
cels 3-5 mm. long; calyx narrowly campanulate, 5-6 mm. long, 
loosely lepidote, unequally 5-toothed, the teeth ovate ; corolla pink, 
4-5 cm. long; capsule linear, straight, 10-13 cm. long. 
Hillsides and plains, southern Oriente, along the coast. Type 
from Conde Beach, Guantanamo Bay (Britton 2132). 
COTEMA Britton & Wilson, gen. nov. ~ 
Trees, with 1-5-foliolate slender-petioled leaves, and rather 
large, long-pedicelled lateral or axillary flowers, solitary or few 
