Britton: Studies of West Indian Plants 19 



Belairia parvifoliola sp. nov. 



A slender tree, up to 10 m. high, the twigs copiously armed with 

 dark brown to black subulate spines 1.5-3 cm - long- Leaves 

 short-petioled, the slender rachis puberulent or short-pubescent; 

 leaflets 7-13, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, shining, nearly equally 

 bright green and rather prominently veined on bodi sides, 8-13 

 mm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, the base inequilateral, the apex mucro- 

 nate, the petiolules 0.5 mm. long; legume narrowly oblong, 10-12 

 mm. long, 3-4.5 mm. wide, narrowed at base and apex, strongly 

 veined, borne on a filiform pedicel 6 mm. long or more. 



Coastal woods, thickets and hillsides, southern Oriente, from 



Guantanamo Bay to Ensenada de Mora. Type, Britton, Cowell 



& Shafer 13037, Ensenada de Mora, March, 1912. 



Meibomia Cowellii sp. nov. 



Root thick and woody; stem slender, stiff, erect, hirsute, 3-8 

 dm. high, simple, or with few nearly erect hirsute branches. 

 Leaves unifoliolate, short-petioled, oblong, linear-oblong or lanceo- 

 late, subcoriaceous, 2-10 cm. long, 2.5 cm. wide or less, obtuse 

 and mucronulate at the apex, obtuse at the base, rather strongly 

 reticulate-veined, finely short-pubescent above, villous-pubescent 

 on the veins beneath, nearly equally green on both sides, the 

 rather stout petioles 2-10 mm. long, the stipules lanceolate, 

 striate, acuminate, 2-4 mm. long, the stipels subulate, about 3 

 mm. long; panicle narrow, nearly simple, long-stalked, 1-3 dm. 

 long; bracts linear-subulate, 2.5-4 rnm. long; pedicels filiform, 

 puberulent, 4-7 mm. long; calyx 2.5-3 mm. long, campanulate, 

 pubescent, lobed to about the middle, the lobes lanceolate, acute; 

 corolla purple, 10 mm. broad; loment short-stipitate, 4-6-jointed, 



2 cm. long or less, nearly equally constricted on both margins, the 

 joints oval, about 4 mm. long and 2.5 mm. broad, loosely pubes- 

 cent, indistinctly reticulate-veined. 



Savannas and pine-lands, Pinar del Rio and Isle of Pines, Cuba. 

 Type, Britton, Britton & Cowell ioogo, from between Pinar del 

 Rio and Coloma, March 16, 191 1. Related to M. angustifolia 

 (H.B.K.) Kuntze. 



Kieseria cubensis sp. nov. 



A tree, up to 13 m. high, the twigs stout, densely leafy toward 

 the ends. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-obovate, 6-10 cm. long, 



3 cm. wide or less, obtuse and rounded or somewhat emarginate 

 at the apex, narrowed to the nearly sessile base; midvein impressed 



