Britton : Cuban Plants New to Science 97 



oblong, oblong-lanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, chartaceous, 3-8 

 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, entire or very nearly so, acute, obtuse or 

 rounded at the apex, obtuse, subtruncate or narrowed at the base, 

 dark green, finely reticulate-veined and glabrous above, strongly 

 reticulate-veined beneath, the slender petioles 5-12 mm. long; 

 cymes small, peduncled, much shorter than the leaves ; pedicels 

 very short; calyx obconic, white stellate-scurfy, 1.5 mm. wide, the 

 lobes very short, broadly triangular; corolla pink, 3-3.5 mm. long, 

 the lobes oval, rounded at the apex; filaments filiform, exserted ; 

 fruit subglobose, scurfy, blue, 3.5-4 mm. in diameter. 



Limestone hills and plains, Pinar del Rio and Isle of Pines. 

 Type from limestone hills, vicinity of Sumidero, Pinar del Rio 

 (Shafer 13526). 



Callicarpa Wrightii Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A shrub, 6-12 dm. high, the twigs, petioles and inflorescence 

 densely brown stellate-scurfy. Leaves obovate to elliptic or 

 oblong, membranous, 7-12 cm. long, 1.5-5 cm - wide, crenate- 

 serrate at least above the middle, acuminate at the apex, cuneate 

 at the base, dark green, glabrous and inconspicuously veined 

 above, green, sparingly stellate on the principal veins, lightly 

 reticulate-veined and copiously resinous-dotted beneath, the pe- 

 tioles 5-9 mm. long ; cymes few-flowered, short-peduncled, much 

 shorter than the leaves, sometimes not longer than the petioles ; 

 fruit greenish, about 5 mm. in diameter, on pedicels about 1.5 

 mm. long. 



Valleys and hillsides, northern Oriente. Type from Moa 

 Bay, east of Rio Moa (Shafer 8308 'A). 



Callicarpa cuneifolia Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A shrub up to 2 m. high, the twigs, petioles, under leaf- 

 surfaces and branches of the inflorescence densely stellate- 

 pubescent with ferruginous hairs. Leaves obovate or elliptic, 

 chartaceous, 4-7 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm - wide, crenulate, acute or 

 acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, dark -green and some- 

 what scabrous above, the midvein strongly impressed, reticulate- 

 veined and finely glandular beneath, the petioles about 6 mm. 

 long ; cymes small, peduncled, shorter than the leaves ; pedicels 

 1.5-2 mm. long; calyx 3 mm. broad; fruit subglobose, 4 mm. in 

 diameter, puberulent when young, glandular. 



Hillsides and pine woods, northern Oriente. Type from a 

 dry serpentine hill, Loma Santa Teresa, near El Yunque {Shafer 

 774i)- 



