78 Britton : Cuban Plants New to Science 



neath ; midrib impressed above, prominent beneath ; racemes 

 stout, 3.5-4 cm. long, many-flowered, erect, glabrous; bracts nar- 

 rowly lanceolate, 1.5 mm. long; pedicels 2.5-3 mm. long; calyx- 

 lobes ovate-lanceolate, short-acuminate ; petals elliptic or elliptic- 

 ovate, 3-3.2 mm. long, 1.2 mm. broad, acute; stamens about half 

 as long as the petals; ovary glabrous. 



Mountains of Oriente (Shafer 4140, type; 4109, 4060). 



Family ILICACEAE 



Ilex Shaferi Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A small shrub, 1-3 m. high, with grayish branches and pu- 

 berulent twigs. Leaves obovate, 0.6-1.4 cm. long, 0.5-0.8 cm. 

 broad, with entire revolute margins, rounded and often emargi- 

 nate at the apex, cuneate at the base, short-petioled, glabrous, 

 shining and obscurely veined above, paler, lustrous and obscurely 

 veined beneath ; fruit subglobose, solitary in the axils of the 

 leaves, 6-7 mm. long, 5-7 mm. in diameter, dark red. 



Mountains of Oriente {Shafer 8041, type; 4065 and 4126). 



Ilex dementis Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A shrub several meters high. Leaves elliptic to ovate-oval or 

 somewhat obovate, 4.5-9 cm. long, 2.5-5 cm - broad, rounded or 

 acutish and usually apiculate at the apex, cuneate or rounded at 

 the base, entire, glabrous, dull above, the midvein impressed, 

 reticulate-veined and paler beneath ; pedicels minutely puberulent, 

 3-5 mm. long ; staminate flowers fascicled in the axils of the 

 leaves; sepals 4, suborbicular, 1.5-2 mm. broad, strongly imbri- 

 cate, ciliate; corolla lobes 4, elliptic to oval, 2-2.2 mm. long; fruit 

 unknown. > 



Mountains of Santa Clara {Brothers Leon and Clement 

 6645, type; 6558, 6669 and 6694). 



Family HIPPOCRATEACEAE 



Salacia ( ?) nipensis Britton, sp. nov. 



A woody vine, sometimes 3 m. long, the twigs warty. Leaves 

 coriaceous, glabrous, entire, elongate-lanceolate, 6-18 cm. long. 

 1 .5-4 cm. wide, obtuse at the apex, cordate at the base, pinnately 

 veined, the midvein prominent, the lateral venation obscure; pe- 

 tioles stout, only 2 mm. long; fruit oblong, obtuse, slightly nar- 

 rowed towards the base, aboui 4 cm. long and 1.5 cm. in diameter, 

 scurfy; sepals persistent, suborbicular, about 3 mm. broad. 



