30 Britton: Studies of West Indian plants 



Rocky situations, mountains of northern Oriente. Type from 

 rocky bank of river, vicinity of Camp San Benito at 900 m. 

 alt. (Shafer 40 go). 



33. Rondeletia bicolor sp. nov. 



A shrub about 1.7 m. high, the twigs ascending, slender, 

 densely short-pubescent when young. Stipules triangular-lanceo- 

 late, rather abruptly attenuate from a broad base, short-pubescent, 

 about 3 mm. long; leaves oblong or oblong-oblanceolate, cori- 

 aceous, 2-3 cm. long, acute or some of them obtuse at the apex, 

 narrowed at the base, dark green, glabrous and very obscurely 

 veined above, white tomentulose and prominently veined beneath, 

 the pubescent petioles 2-4 mm. long; peduncles axillary, pubes- 

 gent, in fruit about 3 mm. long; fruits solitary, globose, pubescent, 

 about 3 mm. in diameter. 



Loma de Ponciano, Sancti Spiritus Mountains, Santa Clara 

 (Leon and Clement 6717) . 



34. Rondeletia (?) tinifolia Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 129. 1866 



Type locality: Western Cuba. 



Distribution: Sancti Spiritus Mountains, Santa Clara; pine- 

 lands and arroyos, Pinar del Rio. Endemic. 



35. Rondeletia (?) camagueyensis sp. nov. 



A shrub about 3 m. high, the young shoots densely appressed- 

 pubescent. Stipules triangular, acute, about 3 mm. long; leaves 

 ovate or elliptic-ovate, 3-4 cm. long, 3 cm. wide or less, membran- 

 ous, acute at the apex, narrowed or obtuse at the base, sparingly 

 short-pubescent and indistinctly veined above, loosely strigose- 

 pubescent, especially on the prominent veins beneath, the stout, 

 pubescent petioles 2-3 mm. long; capsule subglobose, 4-6 mm. 

 in diameter. 



Arroyo, savanna near Camaguey (Britton & Cowell 13206). 

 Imperfect material only was collected at the time of our visit 

 to the locality in April, 1912. 



Other species attributed to Cuba 



Rondeletia microdon DC. Prodr. 4: 408. 1830 



Havana, collected by Ossa, according to De Candolle. De- 

 scribed as a glabrous species, with oval-oblong, short-petioled 



