DEC., 1913. EUPHORBIACE^E MlLLSPAUGH 373 



in its thick, stubby, much more numerous branchlets; its larger in- 

 volucres and shorter peduncles; its hairy bracteoles and its seeds. 



CUBA: Rio San Juan, Province of Santa Clara, rocky hillsides, 

 Britton, Earle & Wilson No. 5874, March 24, 1910. Type in Herbarium 

 New York Botanical Garden. 



EUPHORBIODENDRON Millsp. Field. Mus. Hot., 2:305. 1909. 



Euphorbiodendron Shaferi Millsp. sp. nov. 



Shrub or small tree 3-3.3 m. high, profusely branching; branches 

 divaricate, leafy and leaf -scarred at the apex only; bark finely transverse 

 fissured. Leaves glabrous, coriaceous, oval, short petiolate, 2-3 x .8 

 cm., slightly narrowed at the base, apiculo-mucronate, the midrib promi- 

 nent and somewhat keeled on the lower third. Inflorescence solitary at 

 the apex of the young branchlets; floral leaves 2, opposite, brilliant red, 

 .orbicular, 1.4 cm. diameter, apiculate. Involucre turbinate, subsessile, 

 5x6 mm., glabrous, papillate without hairy at the throat within; lobes 

 various, mostly ligulate and irregularly 3-toothed, some deltoid, thin and 

 fimbriate; glands marginal, oval laterally compressed to scaphoid; 

 bracteoles many, threadlike, hairy; female pedicel glabrous, style 3- 

 lobed, the lobes re volute. Fruit unknown. 



Type locality: CUBA, vicinity of Camp San Benito, Oriente, alt. 900 m., 

 in a thicket along the rocky river; collected by J. A. Shafer 4078, 

 February 24, 1910. Type in herb. New'York Botanical Garden. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type. 



Euphorbiodendron linearifolium Millsp. sp. nov. 



Tree 5m., profusely branching; branches ascending, leafy and leaf- 

 scarred at the apex of the young branchlets only; bark silvery-white to 

 light coppery-brown, coarsely transverse fissured. Leaves sessile, 

 linear, pointed, only slightly if at all narrowed at the base, thick, gla- 

 brous, olive-green, 1.5-4 cm. long, 1.5-3 mm. broad, the midrib light 

 colored and keeled beneath. Inflorescence solitary at the apex of the 

 new branchlets; floral leaves or bracts bright scarlet, orbicular-ovate, 

 1.8 x 2.2 cm., pointed. Involucre cupulate, 4x6 mm., glabrous with- 

 out and within, thick, sarcous; lobes small, flat, with three thick, sarcous, 

 blunt, finger-like teeth; glands oval, laterally compressed to scaphoid; 

 flowers surrounded by 5 oval, fimbriate bracts enclosing a mass of 

 ligulate-fimbriate bracteoles and a few (about '5) male flowers; female 

 pedicel glabrous; style short, 3-lobed. Fruit unknown. 



