370 Britton: Studies of West Indian plants 



slender, 6-12 cm. long, the rachis, bracts and ochreolae puberulent; 

 flowers bright red, sessile, about 5 long, the short perianth-lobes 

 rounded. 



Hillsides and thickets, northern Oriente. 



Type, Shafer 4165, from between Camp Toa and Camp La 

 Barga, 400-450 m. alt. 



15. C. geniculata Lindau, Bot. Jahrb. 13: 141. 1891 



Type locality: Near Puerto Principe, Cuba. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 

 Referred by Grisebach to C. punctata parvifolia Griseb. 



16. C. rufescens C. Wright; Sauvalle, Anales Acad. Habana 7: 



343- 1870 



C. punctata parvifolia Griseb. Mem. Am. Acad. II. 8: 175. i860. 

 C. rufescens longifolia Lindau, Bot. Jahrb. 13: 143. 1891. 



Type locality: Cuba. 



Distribution: Mountains of Oriente. Endemic. 



17. C. reflexa Lindau, Bot. Jahrb. 13: 141. 1891 



Type locality: Cuba [Wright 2256}. 



Distribution: Britton & Coivell 13 115, from a tree 6 m. high, 

 in savannas near Camaguey, appears to be the same as Wright 2256. 



18. C. praecox C. Wright; Lindau, Bot. Jahrb. 13: 142. 1891 



Type locality : Cuba. 



Distribution: Known only from the type specimens {Wright 

 2253)- 



19. Coccolobis benitensis sp. nov. 



A much-branched shrub, up to 2 m. high, the twigs more or 

 less tortuous, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, ovate, or elliptic- 

 ovate, 1.5-7 cm - long, glabrous, punctate, short-acuminate at the 

 apex, rounded or obtuse at the base, densely prominently reticu- 

 late-veined on both sides, the primary veins prominent beneath, 

 the petioles 1.5-4.5 mm. long; spike-like racemes very slender, 

 short-stalked, 4 cm. long or less, the ochreae and rachis puberulent; 

 flowering pedicels scarcely longer than the ochreolae, 0.5 mm. long 

 or less; fruiting pedicels 1-1.5 mm. long; perianth (young) about 



