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glabrous, obtuse, several-nerved; stamens shorter than the petals; 

 filaments I mm. long; anthers elliptic-ovate to broadly elliptic; 

 ovary ovoid, glabrous; stigma subsessile, globose-ovoid or sub- 

 globose, sometimes slightly emarginate. 



Type collected at mouth of the Rio Yamaniguey, Oriente, Cuba 



{Shafer 4253). 



Agalinis albida Britton & Pennell, sp. nov. 



Annual; plant green, tending to blacken in drying. Stem 

 4-6 dm. tall, slender, with virgately ascending branches, obscurely 

 striate-4-angled, glabrous; leaves opposite, or somewhat sub- 

 opposite above, ascending or recurved-spreading, linear-subulate 

 below to linear and longer above, entire, acute, those of the stem 

 1-2.5 cm. long, 0.5-1 mm. wide; bracts gradually much reduced; 

 leaves thickened, minutely scabrous to scabro-roughened above, 

 axillary fascicles none; racemes elongated, 2-16-flowered; pedi- 

 cels ascending, slender, clavate, glabrous, in flower 0.5-1 mm. long, 

 in fruit 2-3 mm. long, much shorter than the bracts; calyx-tube 

 2-2.5 mm. long, depressed-hemispheric, obscurely veined, 1/3-2/5 

 the length of the capsule, somewhat truncate, its lobes 0.7-1 mm. 

 long, broadly triangular to ovate-triangular, acute to acuminate; 

 apex of tube and lobes within sparingly puberulent; corolla 10- 

 15 mm. long, spreading, 7-10 mm. wide, membranous, its tube 

 8-12 mm. long, straight to slightly upcurved, its lobes 2-3 mm. 

 long, rounded to truncate, all somewhat spreading, without 

 minutely pubescent, within slightly pubescent about the bases of 

 the filaments, pubescent below sinus and over most of basal 

 portions of posterior lobes; lobes all ciliate, white, at times shaded 

 with violet; posterior filaments 2.5-3.5 mm. long, anterior 

 5-6.5 mm. long, all somewhat lanose; anther-sacs I 1.5 mm. long, 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute to mucronate at base, lanose-pubescent 

 with white hairs on the valvular surface, glabrous on the sides;. 

 style 4-5 mm. long, filiform, glabrous; stigma 2.5 mm. long; 

 capsule 4 mm. long, depressed-globose, dark-brown; seeds 0.6- 

 0.8 mm. long, lunate-triangular to narrowly quadrangular, slightly 

 less than one-half as broad as long, irregular; testa pale, with reticu- 

 lations delicate, brown, enclosing elongated angular spaces; intra- 

 reticular lines very fine, forming a network. 



Wet, grassy pineland, western Cuba, Isle of Pines, and in 

 Jamaica. 



Type, Colpothrinax savanna, vicinity of Herradura, province 

 of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, collected in flower and fruit August 26- 

 30, 1910 {Britton, Earle & Gager 6475). 



