96 Britton : Cuban Plants New to Science 



Sevilla Estate, near Santiago, Oriente, at 260 m. elevation 

 (Taylor 431). 



Rochefortia stellata Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A tree, 5 m. high, with grayish, flexuose branches and puberu- 

 lent spiny twigs. Leaves elliptic, subcoriaceous, brittle, 1.5-2.8 

 cm. long, 1. 2-1 .8 cm. wide, rounded and occasionally slightly 

 emarginate at the apex, rounded at the base, short-petioled, lus- 

 trous and glabrous or with few scattered stellate hairs above, 

 densely puberulent beneath with grayish, stellate hairs ; flowers 

 solitary or several, axillary, short-pedicelled ; calyx densely stel- 

 late-tomentulose, the lobes triangular-ovate; corolla-tube short, 

 the lobes elliptic-ovate to elliptic, 4 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, cilio- 

 late ; ovary glabrous, the styles separate to near the base, pubes- 

 cent ; young fruit subglobose, 6 mm. in diameter, glabrous. 



Coastal thicket, Ensenada Cabanita, Oriente (Britton & Co- 

 well 12634). 



Rochefortia cubensis Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A shrub with brownish-gray, puberulent, spiny twigs. Leaves 

 elliptic, chartaceous, 6-9 mm. long, 3-6 mm. wide, rounded at 

 both ends, the base occasionally somewhat inequilateral, pubes- 

 cent above with simple, scattered, appressed hairs, glabrous or 

 nearly so beneath, short-petioled ; calyx-lobes ovate, ciliate, 2.5 

 mm. long ; fruit subglobose, 4.5 mm. in diameter, yellowish-red. 



Thicket east of Playa de Marianao (Leon 7228). 



Family VERBENACEAE 



Duranta arida Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A strict shrub, 1-3 m. high, the slender twigs and branches of 

 the inflorescence puberulent. Leaves obovate to elliptic or oval, 

 0.6-1.5 cm. long, 0.5-0.9 cm. wide, acute or rounded at the apex, 

 cuneate or obtuse at the base, entire or minutely and sparingly 

 denticulate above the middle, dark green, glabrous and incon- 

 spicuously veined above, paler and glabrous beneath, the lateral 

 veins three or four on each side of the midvein ; petioles 1-2 mm. 

 long, slender ; fruit subglobose, 5 mm. in diameter, on pedicels I 

 mm. long. 



Thickets, Sabana to Maisi, Oriente (Shafer 7904, type ; 791 1). 



Callicarpa Shaferi Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A shrub up to 3.3 m. high, the twigs, petioles, under leaf- 

 surfaces and inflorescence densely white stellate-scurfy. Leaves 



