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Calyptranthes Clementis Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A shrub, 2-3 m. high ; young twigs terete, densely brown-pilose, 

 the older ones glabrous. Leaves subcoriaceous, elliptic-lanceo- 

 late, 5-8 cm. long, 3 cm. wide or less, rather distinctly pinnately 

 veined with the midvein slightly impressed above and prominent 

 beneath, the upper surface glabrous, dull green, the under surface 

 pale, densely pilose when young, glabrous when old, the apex 

 long-acuminate, the base rounded or obtuse, the stout petioles 

 2-4 mm. long; peduncles 0.6-1.8 cm. long, pilose with brownish 

 hairs ; heads densely bracted, the bracts brown-pilose, the outer 

 bracts lanceolate, 6-7.5 mm - l n g> 2 -8-3 mm. broad, pinnately- 

 veined, the inner ones smaller ; hypanthium densely brown-pilose ; 

 fruit (immature) subglobose, 7 mm. in diameter, tuberculate, 

 sparingly pilose. 



Loma de Ponciano, Sancti Spiritus mountains, Santa Clara, 

 about 750 m. altitude {Leon & Clement 6680). 



Calyptranthes Caroli Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A shrub, about 3 m. high, the young twigs terete, loosely 

 brown-pilose with spreading hairs, glabrous in age. Leaves sub- 

 coriaceous, narrowly elongate-lanceolate, 5-9.5 cm. long, 1.4-1.8 

 cm. wide, finely pinnately-veined above, reticulate-veined beneath, 

 the midvein not or slightly elevated above, prominent beneath, 

 the upper and lower leaf-surfaces brown-pilose when young, 

 glabrous in age, the apex long-acuminate, the base rounded ; pe- 

 tioles 5-7 mm. long, channelled above, pilose ; heads many- 

 flowered, sessile or nearly so, few-bracted, the bracts lanceolate, 

 8-9 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, keeled on the back, loosely pilose; 

 hypanthium densely brown-pilose; fruit unknown. 



Banks of Arroyo Ahoga Caballos between Catalina and Cai- 

 mito, Pinar del Rio, 100-150 m. altitude {Leon & Charles 4895). 



Calyptranthes clarensis Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A shrub or small tree, up to 3 m. high or a little higher ; young 

 twigs subterete, pilose with short, mostly appressed hairs, gla- 

 brous in age. Leaves subcoriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate or ellip- 

 tic-oblanceolate, 2-4 cm. long, 7-14 mm. wide, rather indistinctly 

 pinnately veined on both surfaces, the midvein impressed above, 

 prominent beneath, the upper surface glabrous or nearly so, the 

 lower surface appressed-pilose when young, glabrous or nearly 

 so in age, acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base ; petioles 

 2-2.5 mm - l n g >" inflorescence 1-3-flowered ; peduncles 2-2.5 

 cm. long, slender, puberulent with appressed hairs when young. 



