174 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLUME 21 
Leaf-blades glabrous or merely puberulent beneath. 
Leaf-blades 2.5-7.5 cm. wide. 
Stamens 8; leaf-blades obtuse at the base, about twice as long 
as broad. 5. N. nigricans. 
Stamens usually 5; leaf-blades acute or acuminate at the base, 
about 3 times as long as broad. 6. N. psychotrioides. 
Leaf-blades 9.5-12.5 cm. wide. 7. N. Pittieri. 
Leaf-blades copiously short-villous beneath, 8. N. amplifolia. 
Blades the leaves mostly about 2 cm. wide, the largest less than 3 cm. 
wide. 
Upper surface of the leaf-blades glabrous or sometimes slightly puberu- 
lent along the veins. 
Leaves, at least the upper ones, verticillate. 9. N. tenuis. 
Leaves opposite. 
Staminate perianth conspicuously raphidulous, about as broad 
as long. 10. N. sphaerantha. 
Staminate perianth obscurely if at all raphidulous, usually 
much longer than broad. 
Pedicels slender, filiform, equaling or usually exceeding the 
perianth. 1l. N. delicatula. 
Pedicels stout, usually shorter than the perianth. 
Fruit 5 mm. long; leaf-blades 1.3-2.4 cm. wide. 12. N. demissea. 
Fruit 8 mm. long; leaf-blades 2.5-3.1 em. wide. 13. N. coccinea. 
Upper surface of the leaf-blades puberulent or hirtellous, the lower 
surface densely hirtellous or villous. 
Leaf-blades 0.9—1.8 cm. wide. 14. N. subcoccinea, 
Leaf-blades 2.2—2.8 cm. wide. 15. N. fagifolia. 
1. Neea buxifolia (Hook. f.) Heimerl, Bot. Jahrb. 21: 633. 1896. 
Eggersia buxifolia Hook, f. in Hook. Ic. 15: 1. 1883. 
Shrub or small tree, 3-8 meters high, the branchlets virgate, slender, grayish, densely 
leafy, the younger ones ferrugino-puberulent; leaf-blades oblong, oblong-ovate, oblong- 
elliptic, or oblanceolate, 9-24 mm. long, 4-9 mm. wide, broadly rounded or obtuse at the apex, 
sessile or narrowed at the base to a stout petiole 1-2 mm. long, glabrous, deep-green, rigidly 
coriaceous, the margins often revolute, the lateral veins obsolete; peduncles 4-5 mm. long, 
slender, rufo-puberulent; bractlets 1 mm. long, puberulent; staminate perianth ovoid or sub- 
urceolate, 3.5 mm. long, ferrugino-puberulent or glabrate, obtusely 5-dentate; stamens 5-8, 
1.5-3 mm. long; pistillate perianth subtubular, 3 mm. long, sparsely puberulent, slightly 
contracted in the throat, 5-dentate, the teeth unequal, ovate-deltoid; fruit not known. 
Type LocaLtity: On Flag Hill, St. Thomas, at an altitude of 320 meters. 
DistRIBUTION: On rocky hillsides, Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. 
ILLUSTRATION: Hook. Ic. pl. 1401. 
2. Neea Shaferi Standley, sp. nov. 
Shrub, 1.2-1.5 meters high, much branched, the branches stout, brown or grayish-brown, 
glabrous; leaves crowded and fasciculate on short, stout lateral spurs, the petioles stout, 
1-2 mm. long, ferrugino-puberulent, the blades oval or oval-oblong, 7-13 mm. long, 4-7 mm. 
wide, broadly rounded at the apex, rounded or obtuse at the base and slightly asymmetric, 
coriaceous, glabrous, dark-green, the midvein conspicuous, stout, the lateral veins obsolete; 
fruit elliptic-oblong in outline, 6-7 mm. long, red, striate. 
Type collected at Punta Maisi, Oriente, Cuba, December 14, 1910, J. A. Shafer 7921 (herb. 
N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
3. Neea choriophylla Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 13: 384. 
1911. 
Branches stout, terete, pale-gray or brown, glabrous, the branchlets stout, sparsely 
ferrugino-puberulent when young but soon glabrate, the internodes short; petioles stout, 
4-10 mm. long; leaf-blades oval, oval-oblong, or obovate-oval, broadest at or above the middle, 
4.5~-7 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, broadly cuneate at the base, abruptly acuminate at the apex 
with a narrowly triangular acutish acumen 7~15 mm. long, subcoriaceous, dull yellowish-green, 
concolorous, slightly undulate, sparsely puberulent beneath when young but soon glabrate, 
raphidulous beneath, the margins plane, the lateral veins evident beneath, arcuate-ascending, 
5~8 on each side; peduncles of the pistillate cymes 1.5-3 cm. long, slender, sparsely puberulent 
