100 Britton : Cuban Plants New to Science 



cm. broad, obtuse to acute or acuminate at the apex, cuneate at 

 the base, dull and glabrous above, paler beneath, punctate and 

 serrulate or nearly entire, short-petioled ; racemes terminal, the 

 verticels 5-12 mm. apart; pedicels 2-3 mm. long, puberulent; 

 calyx 5-7 mm. long, its lobes acuminate ; ciliolate ; corolla scarlet, 

 1.8-2.2 cm. long, tomentose. 



Rocky places, mountains of northern Oriente. Type from 

 along shaded stream near base of Loma Mensura, about 680 m. 

 altitude (Shafer 3766) . 



Hyptis Shaferi Britton, sp. nov. 



Creeping, rooting at the nodes, branched or simple, 1 m. long 

 or less, sparingly and loosely pubescent or glabrate. Leaves 

 ovate or orbicular-ovate, irregularly dentate, 2-5 cm. long, acute 

 or obtuse at the apex, narrowed or cuneate at the base, the pe- 

 tioles 2-8 mm. long; heads peduncled, solitary in the axils, de- 

 pressed-globose, densely many-flowered, 1.5-2.2 cm. in diameter; 

 peduncles slender, 1-5 cm. long; involucre-bracts oblong-lanceo- 

 late, acute or acutish, veiny, spreading, 6-8 mm. long; calyx 

 tubular, 7-8 mm. long, its subulate ciliate teeth about one-half as 

 long as the tube ; corolla white or pinkish. 



Grassy places, Pinar del Rio. Type from between Mantua 

 and Arroyos (SJiafcr 11 248). 



Hyptis rivularis Britton, sp. nov. 



Erect, much branched, slender, but stiff, densely puberulent, 

 1.3 m. high, the branches slender. Leaves of the stem not seen; 

 leaves of the branches opposite, oblong-oblanceolate, 1015 mm - 

 long, puberulent on both sides, few-dentate, acutish at the apex, 

 cuneate at the base, the petioles 1-2 mm. long; flowers opposite 

 or verticillate in the axils ; fruiting pedicels about 1 mm. long, 

 filiform; fruiting calyx densely puberulent, oblong, faintly veined, 

 about 4 mm. long, the lanceolate subulate teeth about one-half as 

 long as the tube. 



River bank, Trinidad, Santa Clara {Britton & Wilson 5567). 



Family SOLANACEAE 



Physalis ignota Britton, sp. nov. 



Annual ; stem branched, often zigzag, angled and more or less 

 densely villous with short hairs. Leaves ovate, 4-15 cm. long, 

 3-10 cm. wide, oblique and cuneate or somewhat rounded at the 



