Vol. 32, pp. 241-242 December 31, 1919 



PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



TWO NEW SPECIES OF PLANTS FROM CUBA.* 

 BY PAUL C. STANDLEY. 



In a small collection of plants of the families Amaranthaceae 

 and Allioniaceae, obtained recently in Cuba and forwarded for 

 determination by the New York Botanical Garden, are two ap- 

 parently new species which are described below. 



Achyranthes crassifolia Standi., sp. nov. 



Stems branched, probably prostrate, the branches stout, when young 

 densely covered with straight, appressed, smooth or slightly hispidulous 

 hairs, glabra te in age; leaves linear or linear-oblanceolate, sessile or nearly 

 so, 7-18 mm. long, 1-2.5 mm. wide, narrowed to the base, acute at the apex, 

 fleshy, glabrate, the margins revolute; heads axillary, sessile, solitary or 

 glomerate, 4-8 mm. long, about 4 mm. in diameter, the flowers yellowish 

 white; bracts and bractlets half as long as the sepals or shorter, broadly 

 ovate, sparsely pilose; sepals broadly ovate, 2.5 mm. long, obtuse or acutish, 

 3-ribbed, short-mucronate, pilose, especially near the base; stamen tube 

 very short, the staminodia minute or wanting; utricle less than half as long 

 as the calyx. 



Type in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, collected on 

 the seashore near Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, March, 1919, by Brother Clem- 

 ent (No. 152). 



Related, apparently, to A. halimifolia Lam., a species with broad leaves 

 and more copious pubescence. 



Torrubia insularis Standi., sp. nov. 



Branches slender or stout, grayish or pale brown, rimose and lenticellate, 

 glabrous except at the nodes, there minutely puberulent; leaves opposite, 

 the petioles slender, 1-1.8 cm. long, 0.5-1 mm. thick, glabrous, the blades 

 lanceolate to lance-elliptic, 4.5-9 cm. long, 0.8-3 cm. wide, acutish to acumi- 

 nate at the base, usually acuminate or long-acuminate at the apex but some- 

 times acute or subobtuse, broadest at or below the middle, subcoriaceous, 

 concolorous, glabrous, the lateral nerves 7-9 on each side, slender, subarcu- 

 i Published by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 

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