68 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA (VorumE 29 
much shorter than the tube; filaments nearly glabrous, 2-2.5 mm. long: anthers oblong, about 
1 mm. long; capsules oval or ovoid, 3-4 mm. long. 
TYPE LocaLiry: Cuba, 
DISTRIBUTION: Cuba. 
8. Xolisma myrsinefolia (A. Rich.) Small. 
Leucothoe myrsinefolia A. Rich. in Sagra, Hist. Cuba 11: 74. 1850. 
A much-branched shrub less than 3 m. tall with dark-scurfy twigs; leaves often numerous, 
deep-green, the blades thick and firm, oval, varying to broadly obovate, 1-3 cm. long, obtuse, 
rounded, or notched at the apex, dull and scabro-reticulate above, somewhat veiny beneath, 
undulate, nearly glabrous in age, short-petioled; panicles cluster-like, the pedicels short, 
permanently scurfy; calyx 2-2.5 mm. wide, the lobes 4 or 5, deltoid to ovate-deltoid, acute or 
abruptly pointed; capsules oblong, often narrowly so, 3-4 mm. long. 
Typ LOCALITY: Near Santiago, Cuba. 
DistRIsuTION: Eastern Cuba 
9. Xolisma vaccinioides Small, sp. nov. 
Ashrub with reddish- or pale-scurfy twigs; leaves numerous, bright-green, the blades thick- 
ish, oblong or oval, varying to broadest above or below the middle, 1-3 cm. long, obtuse or 
truncate at the apex, undulate, reticulate, shining above, dull beneath, short-petioled; panicles 
cluster-like, rather many-flowered, the pedicels slender; calyx about 3 mm. wide, the lobes 
4 or 5, deltoid to ovate-deltoid, abruptly pointed; corolla white (?), urceolate, about 4 mm. 
long, the lobes 4 or 5, very broad, much shorter than the tube; filaments about 2 mm. long, 
slender above the dilated bases, minutely puberulent; anthers 1 mm. long; capsules narrowly 
ovoid, 3.5—4.5 mm. long. 
Type collected at Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines, Cuba, Curtiss, March, 1904 (herb. N. Y. Bot. 
Gard.). 
DistrRiIBuTIon: Known only from the type locality. 
10. Xolisma rubiginosa (Pers.) Small. 
Andromeda rubiginosa Pers. Syn. Pl. 1: 481. 1805. 
Andromeda pubescens Poir. in Lam. Encyc. Suppl. 1: 355. 1810. 
Lyonia rubiginosa G. Don, Gen. Hist. 3: 841. 1834. 
A widely branching shrub or small tree, with pale-scurfy twigs; leaves not crowded, 
bright-green, the blades thickish, oval, elliptic, or obovate, mostly 2-4 cm. long, obtuse or 
rounded at the apex, somewhat reticulate but shining above, dull, glaucous, and not reticulate 
beneath, undulate or obscurely crenate, nearly glabrous in age, short-petioled; panicles cluster- 
like, few-flowered, the pedicels short, densely scurfy; calyx about 4 mm. wide, the lobes 5-7, 
suborbicular, varying to orbicular-ovate or orbicular-reniform, abruptly pointed; corolla 
conic, 6-7.5 mm. long, the lobes acute, much shorter than the tube; filaments very slender, 
nearly glabrous, 3-3.5 mm. long; anthers about 1.5 mm. long; capsules ovoid, about 5 mm. 
long. 
Tyres Locaiity: St. Thomas. 
DISTRIBUTION: Hispaniola and St. Thomas. 
11. Xolisma elliptica (C. Wright) Small, sp. nov. 
Lyonia elliptica C. Wright; Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 51, as synonym. 1866. 
A much-branched shrub mostly less than 2 m. tall, with reddish-scurfy twigs; leaves 
numerous, bright-green, the blades thickish, elliptic or oval, varying to broadest above or 
below the middle, mostly 2-5 cm. long, obtuse or acutish, finely reticulate on both sides, 
somewhat shining above, dull and paler or glaticous beneath, undulate or obscurely toothed, 
glabrous or nearly so in age, short-petioled; panicles cluster-like, few-flowered, the pedicels 
short, ultimately glabrous; calyx about 3 mm. broad, the lobes 5, deltoid, acute; corolla not 
seen; capsules oblong, about 3 mm. long. 
Type collected in Cuba, C. Wright 2197 (herb. Columbia Univ,). 
DIsTRIBUTION: Eastern Cuba. 
