Britton: Cuban Plants New to Science 77 



long, 1-2.2 cm. wide, pale green on both sides, pinnately few- 

 veined, elepidote, obtuse or rounded at the apex, narrowed at 

 the base, the rather slender petioles 5-10 mm. long; peduncles 

 of the staminate inflorescence straight, lepidote, 6-8 mm. long; 

 staminate involucre i-bracted or with a second minute bract, 

 rather densely lepidote, depressed-globose, about 2 mm. in 

 diameter. 



Dry hillsides between Rio Yamaniguey and Camp Toa, 

 Oriente, at 400 meters altitude (Shafer 4183). 



Sapium cubense Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A glabrous milky shub or a small tree up to 6 m. high, the 

 slender twigs subterete. Leaves subcoriaceous, oblong to oblong- 

 obovate, 8 cm. long or less, 1.5-3 cm - wide, acute or obtuse at 

 the apex, narrowed or subcuneate at the base, glandular-crenu- 

 late, the midvein prominent, the lateral venation obscure, the 

 slender, eglandular petiole 8-15 mm. long; spikes slender, inter- 

 rupted, axillary, about as long as the leaves or shorter; calyx 

 about 1 mm. long; filaments 2-3 times as long as the calyx; 

 valves of the capsule about 7 mm. long. 



Woods and thickets, northern Oriente. Type from near 

 Woodfred, Sierra Nipe {Shafer 3607). 



Acalypha Hutchinsonii Britton, sp. nov. 



Perennial, apparently dioecious, depressed, velvety-pubescent:,, 

 branched, the branches slender, prostrate or ascending, 4-8 cm. 

 long. Leaves ovate-orbicular, 5-15 mm. long, crenate-serrate,. 

 obtuse or acutish at the apex, subtruncate at the base, the petioles 

 1-3 mm. long; staminate spike short-peduncled, 6-9 mm. long. 



Rocks on the coast of southern Santa Clara (Britton, Earle 

 & Wilson 5907). 



The species appears to be distinct from any of those de- 

 scribed by Prain and Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin 1913 : 1-28. 



Family CYRILLACEAE 



Cyrilla cubensis P. Wilson, sp. nov. 



A glabrous shrub 1-2 m. tall, with grayish more or less angled 

 twigs. Leaves elliptic-obovate, 1.5-3 cm - ^ on S> 0.9-2 cm. broad, 

 rigidly coriaceous, rounded and emarginate at the apex, acute or 

 rounded at the base, dark green and shining above, the veins 

 rather inconspicuous, paler, papillose and reticulate-veined be- 



