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Distribution: Coastal thickets, Santa Clara, Pinar del Rio. 

 Endemic. 



At Coloma, Pinar del Rio, forms a virgate tree 5 m. high. 



3. C. pilonis Urban, Repert. 13: 445. 191 4 



Type locality: Loma Pilon, near Holguin, Oriente. 



Distribution: Barren rocky soil, Oriente, Santa Clara (?), 

 Endemic. 



The Santa Clara specimens, collected near the city of Santa 

 Clara {Britton & Wilson 6i8g, Britton ef Cowell 13325), are in 

 foliage only and thus not determinable with certainty. 



Both this species and the following one are related to C. flaves- 

 cens Jacq., of Hispaniola. The type is from a shrub 1.6 m. high, 



4. Coccolobis woodfredensis sp. nov. 



Similar to C. pilonis, and to C. flavescens Jacq. (of Hispaniola), 

 the leaves spinulose-mucronate. A shrub, 6 m. high, glabrous 

 throughout, the rather stout branches zig-zag; leaves coriaceous, 

 ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 3-6 cm. long, shining above, dull be- 

 neath, inconspicuously veined, the under surface very finely 

 reticulated, the apex spinulose-mucronate, the base rounded, 

 obtuse or subcordate, the stout petioles scarcely 2 mm. long; 

 racemes very narrow, 3-4 cm. long, densely many-tlowered; fruit- 

 ing pedicels about 1 mm. long; old fruit ovoid, acutish, 4 mm. 

 long, 2 mm. thick. 



Dry rocky hillside, between Piedra Gorda and Woodfred, 

 Sierra Nipe, Oriente, 400-500 m. alt. {Shafer 3180). 



5. C. Uvifera (L.) Jacq. Enum. 19. 1760 



Type locality: Shores of the Caribbean Sea. 



Distribution: Coastal thickets, all provinces and Isle of 

 Pines; occasionally on hillsides back from the coasts: Florida; 

 West Indies; continental tropical America. 



6. C. coriacea A. Rich, in Sagra, Hist. Cub. 11 : 1S4. 1850 



C. calobotrys Meisn. in DC. Prodr. 14: 157. 1857. 



Type locality: Vuelta de Abajo, Cuba. 



Distribution: Pinar del Rio (?), Havana, mountains of 

 Oriente. Endemic. 



