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elliptic, 4-7 cm. long, dark green above, pale green beneath, 

 sparingly pubescent with short white hairs on both sides, the 

 venation prominent beneath, the apex acuminate, the base cune- 

 ate, the petioles short; branches of the slender-peduncled cymes 

 many-flowered, 6-9 cm. long; sepals linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 3 mm. long; corolla-tube nearly glabrous, 4 mm. long, its lobes 

 ovate, about 1 mm. long; anthers ovoid, 1 mm. long; berries 

 globose, about 6 mm. in diameter. 



Open places, El Gato, Pinar del Rio, Cuba (Roigj2o8). Re- 

 lated to Tournefortia bicolor Sw., of the West Indies and con- 

 tinental tropical America, but differing in the prominent vena- 

 tion of its lower leaf surface. 



Tournefortia Leonis Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A vine 3 m. or more long, the young twigs densely pubescent 

 with appressed brownish hairs. Leaves narrowly oblong or 

 oblong-elliptic, 2-4.3 cm - l n g> 4-10 mm. wide, acute at the 

 apex, nearly glabrous above or with short scattered appressed 

 hairs on both sides, the petioles 2-3 mm. long; cymes short- 

 peduncled; calyx about 1 mm. long, appressed-pubescent, its 

 narrowly lanceolate lobes acute; corolla-tube 2 mm. long, the 

 linear lobes 2.5 mm. long; fruit depressed, about 4 mm. broad, 

 glabrous. 



Type from coastal thickets, Jauco Abajo, Oriente, Cuba 

 {Brother Leon 12383) ; also collected between Sabana and Maisi 

 (Shafer 7910). Related to Tournefortia volubilis L., from which 

 it may be distinguished by its much narrower leaves. 



Callicarpa Roigii Britton, sp. nov. 



A shrub, the stout branches, petioles, inflorescence and lower 

 leaf-surfaces densely grayish-floccose, becoming glabrate when 

 old. Leaves broadly ovate, submembranous, 6-10 cm. long, 

 strongly pinnately veined, serrulate, the apex acute or acuminate, 

 the base obtuse or rounded, the stout petioles 8-15 mm. long; 

 cymes stout-peduncled, densely many-flowered, shorter than the 

 leaves, 4-7 cm. broad; pedicels very short; calyx campanulate, 

 subtruncate, I mm. long; corolla white, about 3 mm. broad, 

 its lobes rounded; fruit apparently black, about 4 mm. in di- 

 ameter. 



Rocky places, Bolondron, Pinar del Rio, Cuba (Roig 3220 

 type, in flower April, T924); Punta de la Jaulu (C. Wright 3/69, in 

 fruit, Dec. 22). Referred by Grisebach to C. acuminata Kunth. 

 Related to Callicarpa acuminata H.B.K.. of Mexico and Central 

 America. 



