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acute at the apex, narrowed or obtuse at the base, rather dis- 

 tinctly pinnately veined, smooth and glabrous above, punctate 

 and with some scattered hairs beneath, the midvein impressed in 

 the upper surface, prominent on the lower, the puberulent petioles 

 1-2 mm. long ; flowers few, in small bracteolate axillary clusters ; 

 pedicels 2-3,5 mm - long; calyx about 1.5 mm. long, pubescent 

 with scattered, appressed hairs, its lobes rounded-ovate, acute or 

 short-acuminate. 



Coastal plain, San Juan, Isle of Pines (Britton & Wilson 



15455)- 



Eugenia Bakeri Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



Young twigs puberulent, slender, terete, soon becoming gla- 

 brous. Leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, 2-3.5 cm - 

 long, acute or short-acuminate at the apex, narrowed at the base, 

 shining, copiously impressed-punctate with impressed midvein 

 but otherwise nerveless above, dull, pinnately veined and with 

 midvein prominent beneath, the stout petioles about 1 mm. long; 

 flowers solitary or 2 or 3 together in the axils, sessile ; calyx 2 

 mm. long, more or less loosely pubescent with brownish hairs, 

 its lobes rounded-ovate to oval, obtuse or rounded at the apex. 



Santa Catalina, Pinar del Rio (Baker 969) . 



A barren specimen with similar foliage but with leaves 

 rounded at base, from Rio Guao, Pinar del Rio (Britton & 

 Cowell 10102), may represent this species or a related one. 



Family MELASTOMACEAE 



Tamonea ( ?) moensis Britton, sp. nov. 



A glabrous shrub or small tree. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic 

 or ovate-elliptic, acute or acuminate at the apex, narrowed at 

 the base, entire, 4.5-7 cm. long, 3-nerved, the 2 lateral veins 

 arising just above the base, the veins impressed above, promi- 

 nent beneath, the secondary venation delicate, the rather stout 

 petioles 6-9 mm. long ; panicle loosely few-flowered ; pedicels 

 slender, 10-14 mm. long; fruit globose, glabrous, about 7 mm. in 

 diameter, the persistent calyx-limb truncate. 



Camp La Gloria, south of Sierra Moa, Oriente (Shafer 8073, 

 type; 8038). 



Calycogonium saxicola Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A low shrub, about 6 dm. high, the young twigs, petioles and 

 leaf-blades finely scurfy. Leaves subcoriaceous, bright green, 



