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Solanum lomensis Britton & Wilson, sp. no v. 



A tree 6-8 m. high, the twigs and branches armed with 

 brownish prickles 2-4 mm. long, densely hispid with ferruginous, 

 long-stalked, stellate hairs. Leaves broadly elliptic, 7-14 cm. 

 long, 4.5-8.5 cm. broad, acute to short-acuminate at the apex, 

 rounded at the base, coarsely sinuate undulate, rather dull and 

 with few slender prickles above, the midvein and primary veins 

 impressed, densely hispid beneath with stalked stellate hairs, 

 the midvein and primary veins often rather prominent; petioles 

 7-15 mm. long; inflorescence 5-10 cm. long; calyx about 2 cm. 

 in diameter; corolla 3.8 cm. in diameter; anthers 6-6.5 mm. long, 

 attenuate at the apex. 



Loma San Juan near Loma del Gato, Oriente, Cuba {Brother 

 Leon 2520 , type; 12353). Similar to Solanum Gundlachii Urban, 

 of Cuba, but differing in its indumentum. 



Rondeletia myrtacea Standley, sp. nov. 



Shrub 3-4 m. high, the branches terete, reddish brown or 

 grayish, with short or elongate internodes, glabrous or when 

 young sparsely puberulent; stipules broadly triangular, 1.5-2 

 mm. long, subulate-acuminate, sparsely short-pilose near the 

 apex; leaves opposite, the petioles 2-10 mm. long, glabrous; leaf- 

 blades very variable, ovate-elliptic to oval or oblong-elliptic, 

 2-6.5 cm< l n g> I- 3 cm - wide, rounded or obtuse at apex, rounded 

 to cuneate at base, coriaceous, glabrous, lustrous above, the 

 venation prominulous, beneath dull, the costa slender, salient, 

 the lateral nerves about 6 on each side, straight, arcuately anas- 

 tomosing remote from the more or less revolute margin; in- 

 florescences terminal, few or many-flowered, 3-6 cm. long, 

 cymose-paniculate, the pedicels slender, mostly 3-10 mm. long, 

 glabrous or with a few minute appressed hairs; lower bracts 

 leaf-like, 3-7 mm. long, elliptic or broadly ovate, the upper 

 linear or lance-subulate; bractlets subulate, I 1.5 mm. long; 

 hypanthium glabrous or with a few minute appressed hairs; 

 calyx-lobes 5, 1.5-2 mm. long, oblong-spatulate, contracted 

 below, rounded or obtuse at apex; corolla-tube 5-6 mm. long, 

 ampliate above, pilose with minute whitish erect-patent hairs, 

 the 5 lobes orbicular, 2-2.5 mm. long; capsule subglobose, 2~5 

 mm. long, glabrous or glabrate; seeds I 1.5 mm. long, com- 

 pressed, yellow-brown, coarsely reticulate, attenuate at each end. 



Type in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, 

 collected in gravelly soil near Jauco, Mesa de Prada, southern 

 Baracoa region, Cuba, July 17 to August 4, 1924 (Brother Leon 

 1 1 966). The following collections, from the same region, also 

 belong here: Mesa de Prada, Leon 11946; Jauco Arriba, Leon 

 /20/6. 



