CORRELL, ATELEIAA NEW SPECIES OF ATELEIA (LEGUMINOSAE) FROM THE BAHAMAS DONOVAN S. CORRELL IN RECENT YEARS the Bahama flora has been the subject of intensiveinvestigation. One of the results of careful field study has been the discoveryor elucidation of several localities where rare or unusual species occur. Theselocalities are believed to represent refugia where survival has been possiblefor these plants despite what may be-or may previously have been-anotherwise unfavorable environment. Wallenia laurifolia Sw. on Grand Bahama,Tabernaemontana citrifolia L. on Eleuthera, Celtis iguanaea (Jacq.) Sarg.on South Andros, and Ctenitis hirta (Sw.) Copel. on New Providence areexamples of such presumed refugia species. The plant now being describednot only survives in such a refuge area, but also apparently is a speciespreviously unknown in Ateleia (Moc. & Sesse ex DC.) D. Dietr., a verydistinct and natural genus. Dr. Robert H. Mohlenbrock, who monographed Ateleia in 1962, was sentmaterial of this plant but declined to advance an opinion regarding its identity.It is more closely related to such species as the Cuban A teleia apetala Griseb.than to the only other species of this genus known from the Bahamas,A. gummifera (DC.) A. Dietr.Ateleia popenoei Correll, sp. nov. FIGURE 1. Arbor ad 5 m. alta, corona lata ramorum gracilium. Truncus erectus glaber,cortice cineraceo ad fumeo; rami et ramuli cineracei, pilis brevibus adpressisporrectis et lenticellis conspicuis. Foliola 5 ad 11, tenui-herbacea, alternavel subopposita; petioluli graciles, 3-4 mm. longi, circa 0.5 mm. crassi, puberuli;laminae typice orbiculo-ovatae ad elliptico-lanceolatae, ad circa 6 cm. longaeet 2.5 cm. latae, plerumque multo breviores, vulgo oblique ad basem rotundataeet ad apicem obtusae ad acutae, integrae, prasinae, nervo medio prominente,venatione minute reticulata. Flores et fructus generis typici. TYPE: Bahamas, Great Exuma, on a high, coppice-covered rocky ridge above roadway west of Moss Town, saplings and trees to 5 m. tall, October 3, 1980. D. S. Correll & John Popenoe 51420 (A, holotype; F, FTG, NY, US, isotypes). Tree to 5 meters tall, with widespreading crown of slender branches. Trunk erect, smooth, with light gray to grayish brown bark; branches and branchlets grayish, with short, appressed, porrect hairs and conspicuous lenticels. Leaves exstipulate, alternate or subopposite; petioles slender, to about 3 cm. long; � President and Fellows of Harvard College, 1981. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 62: 261-263. April. 1981.1981]
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