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recurved teeth 2-3 mm. long, the leaf otherwise unarmed; in- 

 florescence lax, the branches slender, densely clothed with short 

 hairs; spathes of the inflorescence gradually tapering to long 

 acuminate tips; calyx cylindric, 3-3.5 mm. high, the lobes strongly 

 mucronate; corolla 5-6 mm. long, densely clothed with short, 

 mostly appressed hairs on the outer surface, the lobes prominently 

 grooved within below the middle, the grooves hairy on the margin, 

 longitudinally converging and bearded above; dilated portion of 

 the filaments prominently triangular; carpels truncate at the 

 summit, grooved; styles nearly cylindric; fruiting panicles about 

 twice as long as the leaves, pendent, glabrous, much-branched, 

 slender, the stalk about as long as the fruit-bearing part; sheath 

 closely appressed, the lower up to 1 dm. long; fruits close together 

 on the ultimate branches of the panicle, subglobose, obovoid, a 

 little longer than thick, yellow when full-grown but not quite ripe, 

 shining, 14-17 mm. long; old calyx-segments persistent under the 

 fruit, triangular-ovate, acute, 2 mm. long; flesh of old ripe fruit 

 very thin; seed smooth, about 12 mm. long; endosperm bony, 

 grooved. 



Seedlings have rough-edged leaves green on both sides. 



Type collected in savannas near Camagiiey, Cuba, April 2-7, 

 1912 (Britton, Britton & Cowell 13187); also collected in the prov- 

 ince of Camagiiey (Shafer 508-, 11 44, 2917). 



Anneslia enervis sp. nov. 



A shrub or small tree 4 m. high, with slender, stiff, somewhat 

 zigzag twigs sparingly pubescent when young, soon glabrous. 

 Leaves very small; pinnae 2, the petiole and petiolules each 

 about 1 mm. long, rather stout; pinnules 2 to each pinna, 2-3 

 mm. long, obovate, sessile, nerveless, shining, rounded at the apex, 

 oblique at the base; heads nearly sessile in the upper axils, few- 

 flowered; calyx campanulate, 1.5 mm. long, its teeth acute; 

 corolla about 3 mm. long; stamens 6-7 mm. long; legume gla- 

 brous, 3-4 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, abruptly tipped at the apex, 

 narrowed from below the middle to the base, the valves subcoria- 

 ceous. 



Mountains of northern Oriente, Cuba; type from Camp La 

 Gloria, south of Sierra Moa, Shafer 8274, December, 1910. 



Not closely related to any species known to me, but somewhat 

 resembling A. colletioides (Griseb.) Britton [Calliandra colletioides 

 Griseb.] of low elevations in dry parts of the same province. 



