1926] britton: west Indian plants 459 



bricate; glumes unequal, acuminate or awn-tipped, scaberulous 

 on the nerve, the second 3 mm. long, the first more than one-half 

 as long; fertile lemma pale, five times as long as wide, wider in 

 the middle, 3-nerved, villous on the callus, short villous on the 

 marginal nerves from base to apex, and often on the keel, from 

 above the base to the middle, the awn 8 to 12 mm. long; sterile 

 lemma I to 2.2 mm. long, wider below the apex than at base, 

 acute at apex, its awn 6 to 10 mm. long; some of the lower spike- 

 lets include sometimes a second awned sterile floret. 



In sandy ground, at Cajobabo, not far from the mouth of 

 Jojo River, Oriente, Cuba (Leon 12320). Named in honor of 

 Colonel Morales Coello of the Cuban Navy, in recognition of his 

 effective help. This species is of Chloris Sagraeana relationship, 

 but a much taller plant; it also differs in its longer and broader 

 leaves and more leafy stems. The type specimen is preserved in 

 Colegio de la Salle Herbarium, Vedado, Havana. 



Peperomia Roigana Trelease, sp. nov. 



A puberulent suberect fleshy herb; stem slender (2 mm.); 

 leaves in crowded whorls above, more separated below, about 

 4 at a node, somewhat angularly suborbicular or slightly ovate 

 or obovate, obtuse, sessile, rather small (10 X 12-14 X 15 mm.), 

 drying opaque, obscurely 3-nerved by transmitted light and 

 finely pellucid-punctulate; inflorescence unknown. 



Mogote de la Bandera, Sierra de Vifiales, Pinar del Rio, Cuba, 

 (Roig 5? Azcuy 2902). 



Torrubia Leonis Standley, sp. nov. 



Shrub 2 m. high, the branches grayish, the branchlets densely 

 brownish-tomentose or in age merely puberulent, evenly leafy, 

 with short internodes; petioles slender, 6-15 mm. long, brownish- 

 tomentose; leaf blades oblong-elliptic or narrowly elliptic, 4-7 

 cm. long, 1.7-3.3 cm - w 'de, rounded or very obtuse at apex, 

 obtuse or rounded at base or sometimes acute, subcoriaceous, 

 above deep green, lustrous, with obsolete venation, densely 

 short-villous when young but in age only sparsely short-villous 

 or glabrate, beneath slightly paler, copiously villous even in age 

 with short slender spreading hairs, the lateral nerves very slender 

 and irregular; pistillate peduncles slender, 1-2 cm. long, thinly 

 brownish-tomentose, the inflorescence cymose, few or many- 

 flowered, the flowers sessile; pistillate perianth tubular, 1.5-2 

 mm. long, with spreading limb, glabrous or nearly so; style 

 exserted. 



Type in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, 

 collected on limestone rocks at the top of the Sierra de Anafe, 

 Province of Havana, Cuba, May 6, 1924. (Brother Leon 11622.) 



