460 Brixton: Studies of West Indian plants 



densely stellate-canescent, prominently 5-nerved; petioles 1.5-2.5 

 cm. long; flowers sessile, calyx campanulate, densely stellate- 

 tomentulose, the lobes 5, deltoid at the base, linear above, 5-6 

 mm. long. 



Low dry thickets, pine-lands, Sierra Nipe, near Woodfred, 

 Oriente (Shafer 2g6y). 



Labatia aristata Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A much-branched shrub, 2-3 m. high, the branches rigid, gray, 

 the young twigs appressed-pubescent. Leaves broadly ovate to 

 suborbicular, 2-3.5 cm - l n g> coriaceous, glabrous, strongly pin- 

 nately and reticulate-veined, dark green and shining above, dull 

 green beneath, aristate at the apex, rounded or subcordate at the 

 base, the yellowish green, rather stout petioles 5-10 mm. long; 

 pedicels solitary or several together, slender, glabrous, 5-8 mm. long; 

 calyx sparingly pubescent, 2.5-3 nam. long, deeply 4- to 5-lobed, 

 the lobes lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acutish, scarcely im- 

 bricated; corolla green, about 2.5 mm. long, 4-5-lobed to about the 

 middle, the lobes rounded, slightly imbricated; anthers oblong, a 

 little longer than the filaments; staminodia obovate, somewhat 

 longer than the filaments; drupe oval, dark purple, 2.5 cm. long, 

 its flesh very thin; seeds 2, oblong. 



Coastal hills and thickets, provinces of Oriente, Santa Clara 



and Havana, Cuba; type collected between the Rio Chorrera 



and Marianao, Havana (Brother Leon 62J0). 



Tournefortia Earlei sp. nov. 



A shrub, 1-2 m. high, with long, slender branches, or vine-like 

 and 3 m. long, the branches densely pubescent with short, soft, 

 appressed hairs. Leaves narrowly linear, or linear-lanceolate, 

 3-7 cm. long, 2-6 mm. wide, acute or bluntish at the apex, densely 

 appressed-pubescent above, densely white-tomentulose beneath, 

 the petioles 1.5-3 mm. long; cymes short-peduncled, their few, 

 very slender branches 2-4 cm. long; calyx 1 mm. long, appressed- 

 pubescent, its lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate lobes acute; corolla- 

 tube about 2 mm. long, the narrowly lanceolate lobes about as 

 long; fruit depressed, 4 mm. broad, about one half as high as 

 broad, glabrous. 



Hillsides, Guantanamo Bay and Santiago Bay, Oriente. Type 

 from Guantanamo Bay (F. S. Earle 82). Related to T. incana 

 Lam. and T. stenophylla Urban. 



