22 Britton: Studies of West Indian Plants 



2. Portlandia nitens Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 39: 10. 1912 

 Wet mountains of northern Oriente, Cuba. 



3. Portlandia Harrisii Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 39: 8. 1912 

 On limestone rocks, Peckham Woods, Upper Clarendon, 



Jamaica. 



To the original description the following may now be added 

 from Mr. Harris' subsequent collections and observations: Corolla 

 white, tinged with rose, urn-shaped, about 9 cm. long and 3.5 cm. 

 wide at the mouth, fragrant, the tips of its lobes reflexed; pedicels 

 and calyx-lobes usually claret-colored; calyx-lobes oblong, about 

 1.5 cm. long and 5 mm. wide; filaments pubescent below; anthers 

 narrowly linear, yellow, nearly 2 cm. long, about half as long as 

 the filaments {Harris 1120Q, Sept. 28, 1912). 



4. Portlandia elliptica sp. nov. 

 A slender shrub 3.3 m. high, the young twigs, pedicels and calyx 

 finely pubescent. Leaves elliptic, coriaceous, glabrous, or when 

 young, slightly pubescent, 8 cm. long or less, 2-4 cm. wide, obtuse 

 or rounded at the apex, narrowed at the base, dark green and shin- 

 ing above, bright green and rather dull beneath, the midvein 

 prominent, the lateral veins obscure, the stout petioles 1 cm. long 

 or less, the stipular sheath truncate; inflorescence terminal, sessile, 

 few-flowered; pedicels slender, 5-8 mm. long; calyx 10-12 mm. 

 long, its linear-lanceolate lobes longer than the tube; corolla 

 narrowly campanulate, glabrous, ochroleucous, 2 cm. long; cap- 

 sule obovoid, 12 mm. long. 



Thickets on serpentine rocks, between Baracoa and Florida, 

 Oriente, Cuba, March 15, 19 10 (Shafer 4332). 



5. Portlandia involucrata Wernham, Jour. Bot. 51 : 320. 1913 

 Wet parts of northern Oriente, Cuba. As remarked by Mr. 



Wernham, perhaps not of this genus; the corolla is unknown. 



6. Portlandia uliginosa W r ernham, Jour. Bot. 51: 320. 1913 

 Between Rio Yamaniguey and Camp Toa, northern Oriente, 



Cuba. 



7. Portlandia graxdiflora L. Syst. ed. 10. 928. 1759 

 Thickets and hillsides at lower and middle altitudes, in moist 



districts, Jamaica; St. Thomas (native?); cultivated in Grenada, 



and in St. Croix. 



