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Frutices erecti vel humiles, ramulis apicem versus tomentosis vel vil- 
losis. Folia manifeste petiolata, elliptica vel oblonga, paullo lepidotula 
vel pilosa, integerrima vel spinoso-dentata, haud reticulata. Flores 
minores vel majusculi, in specie altera saltem smaragdini, singuli inter 
folia normalia e squamarum saepius delapsarum axillis provenientes. 
Species 2, altera (D. smaragdina Desne.) mexicana, altera cubensis: 
3. Deherainia eubensis (Radlk.) Mez: Foliis toto margine optime 
spinosis; floribus + 7 mm. longis; petalorum lobis triangularibus; an- 
theris apice longe caudatis. 
Theophrasta eubensis Radik.! in Sitzungsber. bayr. Acad. XX 
(1890) p. 188. 
Theophrasta americana Griseb.! (nec alior.,) Cat. p. 163; Sauv. 
Oub. n. 1420; @. Maxa, Periant. Cub. p. 252 (40). 
Ramuli dense adpresseque umbrino-tomentosi. Folia petiolis mani- 
festis sed brevibus vix ultra 5 mm. longis stipitata, oblonga, basin versus 
sensim angustata, apice rotundata, + 170 mm. longa, (spinis computatis) 65 mm. 
lata, adulta coriacea, supra lepidibus paullo majoribus manifestioribus subtus 
minutissimis et aegre reperiendis dense punctulata, et costis paullo promi- 
‚nulis et nervillis 00 tenuissimis parallelis striatula sericeo-micantia. Flores 
pedicellis breviter tomentosis, usque ad 12 mm. longis stipitati; sepalis sub- 
ovatis, acutiusculis, margine dense serrulatis; petalis ad °/, longit. coalitis, 
lobis anguste rotundatis, margine crenulatis. Staminodia minuta, triangulo- 
liguliformia, haud papillosa. Stamina lobos medio aequantia, filamentis basi 
brevissime inter sese et cum petalis connatis; antheris ovalibus, apice in 
caudam longam dorso valde callose decurrentem productis. Ovarium per 
anthesin glabrum, subglobosum; stylo fere aequilongo. Fructus immaturi 
conspicue ferrugineo-tomentelli. 
Hab. in Cuba, in sylvis saxosis ad Las Piedras: Poeppig, loco. 
ignoto: Sagra n. 431, Wright n. 567 = 2916. — (V. s. in herb. Goetting., 
Krug. et Urban., Monac., alibi.) 
II. Clavija Ruiz et Pavon. 
Flores polygamo-dioici, sueto 5-, rarius 4-meri. Calyx basi 
nunc brevissime nunc altius medium usque connatus, segmentis imbri- 
catis, saepissime suborbicularibus latissimeque rotundatis raro minute 
acuminatis, margine erenulatis vel fimbriolatis. Corolla basi in tubum 
late infundibuliformem vel rarissime campanulatum ad Y/,—!/, raris- 
sime ultra medium coalita, limbo rotato vel subcampanulato segmentis 
imbricatis, carnosulis, late rotundatis nec emarginatis, sueto + crenu- 
latis. Stamina e fauce exserta vel emergentia, in floribus 9! filamentis 
in tubum perfectissimum basi cum petalis coalitum connatis, antheris 
nune arcte sibi accumbentibus nune conglutinatis, desuper visis discum 
10- vel 20-dentatum efformantibus, extrorsis, supra basin dorsifixis, 
