2 Hritton: Studies of West Indian plants XII 



Peperomia Leoclemerocana Trelease, sp. nov. 



A rather large assurgent glabrous herb; stem succulent and 

 rather thick (5-8 mm.) ; leaves alternate, broadly elliptic-obovate, 

 somewhat blunt-acuminate and often emarginulate, cuneate, 

 rather large (2 X 5-4X 6.5 cm.), drying rather coriaceous and dull, 

 pinnately veined from about the middle, the principal ascending 

 branches of the midrib 3 or 4 X 2; petiole scarcely 1 cm. long, 

 winged; spikes terminal, paired or toward the end of a bracted 

 stalk about 6 cm. long, 2 X 70-130 mm.; peduncle about 2 cm. 

 long; bracts round-peltate, about .5 mm. in diameter and 10 to 

 the pseudo-whorl; berries separated by somewhat evident ridges, 

 ellipsoid, somewhat glandular, with stout curved beak; stigma 

 anterior. 



Cobre range, Sierra Maestra, Oriente {Leon, Clement & Roca 

 10436 the type at the New York Botanical Garden). 



Clidemia Clementiana Britton, sp nov. 



A shrub about 3 m. high, the very slender twigs, the petioles 

 and the under leaf-surfaces puberulent. Leaves narrowly 

 lanceolate, 1 -nerved, chartaceous, entire, short-petioled, 2-6 cm. 

 long, glabrous above, the apex acuminate, the base narrowed, 

 the lateral venation faint, spreading; inflorescence 1-3-flowered; 

 pedicels filiform, puberulent, 1-2 cm. long; calyx-lobes 4, linear, 

 2-3 mm. long; fruit 4-lobed, about 5 mm. in diameter. 



Sierra Maestra, Oriente. Type from Loma del Gato, {Leon, 

 Clement and Roca 9830). 



Rondeletia Ekmanii Britton & Standley, sp. nov. 



Branchlets brown, puberulent or scaberulous, finally glabra te; 

 stipules deltoid-cuspidate, 2-3 mm. long, erect, persistent; 

 petioles 2-3 mm. long, glabrous or obscurely puberulent; leaf 

 blades broadly elliptic to elliptic-oval, 2-4 cm. long, 1.2-2.5 cm. 

 wide, rounded or very obtuse at apex, rounded at base, coriaceous, 

 dark green above, glabrous, lustrous, with prominulous-reti- 

 culate venation, paler beneath and brownish, glabrous, the costa 

 salient, the lateral nerves few, distant, not conspicuous; inflores- 

 cence terminating the main branches and on short leafy lateral 

 twigs, few-flowered, open, the flowers slender-pedicellate; rachis 

 of the inflorescence scaberulous, the pedicels 4-5 mm. long; 

 hypanthium globose, densely white-scaberulous; calyx-lobes 

 linear-subulate, scarcely over 1 mm. long, subobtuse, brownish, 

 scaberulous; corolla-tube 6 mm. long, dilated above, strigillose- 

 scaberulous with white hairs, the 5 lobes broadly obovate, 

 rounded at apex, tomentulose on the inner surface. 



