98 Britton : Cuban Plants New to Science 



Callicarpa nipensis Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A shrub about 6 dm. high, the twigs, inflorescence, petioles 

 and under leaf-surfaces densely brown stellate-tomentose. Leaves 

 linear-oblong, coriaceous, entire or very slightly repand, 12 cm. 

 long or less, 8-18 mm. wide, acute at the apex, narrowed at the 

 base, tapering gradually from near the middle to both ends, dark 

 green and minutely setulose with impressed venation above, 

 strongly elevated-veined beneath, the rather stout petioles 6-9 

 mm. long; cymes peduncled, shorter than the leaves, several- 

 flowered ; fruit blue, compressed, short-pubescent, about 7 mm. 

 broad. 



., Border of pinelands, Sierra Nipe, near Woodfred, Oriente, 

 450-550 meters altitude (Shafer 3026). 



Vitex Clementis Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



Young twigs rather slender, densely tomentulose. Leaves 

 3-foliolate; petioles slender, tomentulose, 2-7 cm. long; petiolules 

 2 cm. long or less ; leaflets oblong-elliptic, 6-10 cm. long, rather 

 thin, acute or obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base, glabrous 

 above, or nearly so, except upon the impressed veins, densely 

 tomentulose and with elevated veins beneath ; cymes several or 

 numerous, panicled, few-several-flowered, tomentulose ; pedicels 

 2-5 mm. long; calyx short-campanulate, about 6 mm. broad, its 

 lobes suborbicular, ciliate ; corolla purple, 1.5-1.7 cm. broad, vil- 

 lous on the outside, its lobes very unequal, its tube 6 mm. long. 



Coastal thickets, Santiago, Oriente {Clement 168, type) ; col- 

 lected also at Cabo Cruz, as shown by a specimen from the Sau- 

 valle Herbarium. 



Pseudocarpidium Shaferi Britton, sp. nov. 



A shrub or small tree up to 4 m. high, the young twigs, pe- 

 tioles and under leaf-surfaces whitish-tomentulose. Leaves ob- 

 long, or oblong-oblanceolate, coriaceous, 3.5 cm. long or less, 6-10 

 mm. wide, entire, or rarely with 1 or 2 spinulose teeth, acute and 

 spinulose-tipped, the base subcuneate, the principal veins delicate 

 above, rather prominent beneath, the upper surface dark green, 

 glabrous, densely and finely reticulate-veined ; panicle slender, 

 puberulent, a little longer than the leaves ; calyx 2 mm. long, its 

 ovate, sharply acute lobes somewhat shorter than the tube ; co- 

 rolla puberulent, about 5 mm. long; fruit densely pubescent, 

 4-lobed, depressed, 4-6 mm. broad. 



Coastal thickets between Sabana and Maisi, Oriente (Shafer 

 790i). 



