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2. Badiera virgata Britton 

 The specimen referred to by me under B. oblongata Britton 

 {Britton & Wilson 6066) from Santa Clara, Cuba, is now, in the 

 light of additional material, put with B. virgata, as a broad-leaved 

 race. 



4. Badiera diversifolia (L.) DC. 



This, the only Jamaican species of the genus, forms a tree 

 up to 6 m. high, as at St. Ann's Bay {Britton 24Q8). 



5. Badiera cubensis Britton 



In the original description of this species (Bull. Torrey Club 

 37: 362), I included too many citations of specimens. C. 

 Wright's Cuban 1913 consists, apparently, of three species; it is 

 to the specimen with abruptly acuminate leaves cuneate-narrowed 

 at the base, 4-6 cm. long, that the name should be restricted. As 

 shown by specimens from Bahia Honda, Pinar del Rio (P. Wilson 

 9429) the leaves vary to obovate. The fruit is glabrous when 

 mature, its slender stipe 2 mm. long. 



5a. Badiera Fuertesii Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 244. 1912 



A tree of the mountains of Santo Domingo, with glabrous 

 leaves, strongly reticulate-veined on the upper surface. 



6. Badiera Montana Britton 



Described from fruiting specimens collected in the Trinidad 

 Mountains, Santa Clara, Cuba. Flowering specimens with ap- 

 parently the same foliage and pubescence come from limestone 

 hills in the vicinity of Sumidero, Pinar del Rio {Shafer 13819), but 

 flowers from the Trinidad Mountain tree are needed to make the 

 identity wholly satisfactory. 



8. Badiera propinqua sp. nov. 



Twigs slender, densely appressed-pubescent. Leaves ovate to 

 ovate-elliptic, 2-4.5 cm - l n g. 8-25 mm. wide, bluntly acute or 

 obtuse and emarginate at the apex, narrowed or obtuse at the 

 base, sparingly short-pubescent on both sides or becoming glab- 

 rous, the midvein impressed above, prominent beneath, the slender 

 lateral veins 6 to 8 on each side of the midvein, the appressed- 

 pubescent petioles 1.5-3 mm. long; inflorescence few-flowered, 



