76 Britton : Cuban Plants New to Science 



Rocky coastal hills, vicinity of El MorrO', Santiago Bay, 

 Oriente (Britton & Cozvell 12580). 



Lasiocroton gracilis Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



Shrub, the young twigs clothed with minute, ferruginous, stel- 

 late hairs; leaves ovate, 3-3.5 cm. long, 1.4-2.5 cm. broad, acute 

 to short-acuminate at the apex, rounded or subcordate at the base, 

 short-petioled, those on the branches oblong-elliptic, 1 1.5 cm. 

 long, 0.5 cm. broad, all entire and glabrous or nearly so above, 

 beneath reticulate-veined and densely stellate-pubescent with 

 whitish hairs ; inflorescence slender, 3-5 cm. long, loosely flow- 

 ered ; petals of the staminate flowers ovate-lanceolate, 2 mm. 

 long, 1 mm. broad, acute at the apex, densely pubescent on the 

 back ; fruit not seen. 



Type collected in the vicinity of Santiago, Oriente (Pollard 

 & Palmer 281). 



Lasiocroton ( ?) cordifolius Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A shrub 2-2.5 m - tall, the young twigs densely clothed with 

 short, ferruginous, stellate hairs ; leaves broadly ovate-oval to 

 oval, 7-14 cm. long, 4.5-10.5 cm. broad, obtuse, acute or short- 

 acuminate at the apex, rounded and cordate at the base, entire, 

 above glabrous ; the veins rather inconspicuous, beneath stellate- 

 pubescent with whitish hairs, the midvein and lateral veins promi- 

 nent ; petioles 4-5.5 cm. long, densely short-stellate pubescent; 

 flowers and fruit not seen. 



Along stream in the Pinales southeast of Paso Estancia, 

 Oriente (Shafer 1724). 



Pera longipes Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A shrub about 3 m. high, with slender, ascending, glabrous 

 twigs. Leaves alternate, obovate, coriaceous, 3-7 cm. long, 1-3 

 cm. wide, green on both sides, elepidote, rounded or emarginate 

 at the apex, cuneate at the base, faintly pinnately few-veined, the 

 stout petiole 1.5-2.5 mm. long; staminate inflorescence long- 

 peduncled, subglobose, i-bracted, about 4 mm. in diameter, spar- 

 ingly lepidote; peduncle weak, curved or flexuous, 1.5-2 cm. long; 

 bract ovate-orbicular, rounded, lepidote, 1.5 mm. long. 



Dry serpentine thickets, between Navas and Camp Buena 

 Vista, Oriente, at 650 meters altitude (Shafer 4416). 



Pera pallidifolia Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A shrub, 2-2.6 m. high, with slender, ascending twigs. 

 Leaves alternate, oblong-oblanceolate, subcoriaceous, 4-8 cm. 



