Britton : Cuban Plants New to Science 89 



Eugenia havanensis Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A shrub about 2 m. high, the young twigs glabrous or slightly 

 puberulent. Leaves obovate to elliptic or oval, 2.5-3.8 cm. long, 

 1.5-2.3 cm. broad, rounded at the apex, acute at the base, above 

 rather light green, lustrous and finely tuberculate-glandular when 

 young, dark green and smooth or nearly so in age, beneath gla- 

 brous, paler and finely tuberculate-glandular, the midrib promi- 

 nent ; flowers axillary, solitary ; pedicels slender, 1-3 cm. long, 

 glabrous or slightly pubescent ; calyx-tube about 3 mm. long, pu- 

 berulent with appressed whitish hairs, its lobes unequal, rounded- 

 ovate to suborbicular, ciliolate ; petals obovate, 8 mm. long, 5-5.5 

 mm. broad, ciliolate. 



On hills, Havana. Type collected at Cuabal north of Minas 

 (Leon & Roca 6212). Possibly a species of Psidlum. 



Eugenia varia Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A low shrub, only about 2 dm. high, some of the branches de- 

 cumbent and radicant; young twigs puberulent, the older ones 

 gray and glabrous. Leaves chartaceous, various in form, ovate 

 to elliptic or suborbicular, 2 cm. long or less, acute, obtuse or 

 rounded at the apex, mostly rounded at the base, distinctly pin- 

 nately veined, the upper surface tuberculate, the petioles 1-1.5 

 mm. long ; flowers few or solitary, mostly in the upper axils ; 

 pedicels puberulent, 3 mm. long or less; calyx I 1.2 mm. long, 

 sparingly pubescent, its lobes rounded-ovate to ovate, obtuse or 

 acutish at the apex, ciliate; petals oval to suborbicular, 1.8-2 mm. 

 long, 1.7-2 mm. broad, rounded at the apex; fruit subglobose, 5 

 mm. long. 



Banks, Pinar del Rio. Type collected between San Diego 

 and La Palma {Leon 5158). 



Eugenia ( ?) Earlei Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A shrub about 2 m. high, with short terete glabrous twigs. 

 Leaves elliptic or ovate-elliptic, chartaceous, 2.5-4 cm. long, 3 

 cm. wide or less, distinctly pinnately veined, obtuse, rounded or 

 bluntly acute at the apex, obtuse at the base, bright green, shining, 

 somewhat tuberculate above and with impressed midvein, pale 

 green, dull and with midvein prominent beneath, the stout petioles 

 about 1 mm. long. 



Valley near Guanabana, Trinidad Mountains, Santa Clara, 

 260 m. altitude {Britton, Earlc & Wilson, 4771). 



