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petioles 2-4 mm. long; spike terminal, few-flowered; bracts lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, villous, about 1.5 cm. long; calyx-teeth nar- 

 rowly lanceolate, loosely villous; corolla rose-colored, 3.5 cm. 

 long, loosely villous, 2-lipped, the teeth of the lobes short and 

 rounded; filaments slender, nearly as long as the corolla, glabrous; 

 anthers 2.5 mm. long. 



Crevices of limestone rocks, Peckham woods, Upper Clarendon, 



Jamaica (Harris 10978, type; 11 178). 



32. UNDESCRIBED CUBAN SPECIES 

 Copernicia rigida Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A tree up to 6 m. high, with a slender cylindric trunk. Leaf- 

 blades wedge-shape, 13-15 dm. long, deeply grooved below the 

 middle, bright green above, paler beneath and sometimes armed 

 on the margins of the grooves with small, straight or recurved 

 teeth 1-4 mm. long; leaf margins armed mostly below the middle 

 with numerous recurved, straight, ascending, or sometimes hooked 

 teeth 3-7 mm. long; petiole short, stout, 1-1.5 dm. long, 1-1.4 

 dm. broad, unarmed; ligule rigid, rhombic-ovate, 2.5-3.5 dm. long, 

 1.7-2 dm. broad, armed on the margin with ascending, recurved, 

 straight or sometimes hooked teeth 3-12 mm. long, coalescent 

 with and decurrent on the short petiole; inflorescence lax, branches 

 slender, the ultimate ones densely clothed with short hairs; 

 spathes of the inflorescence abruptly tapering to a long, slender 

 acuminate tip; flowers unknown; fruit subglobose, 1.5-1.6 mm. 

 long, 1. 4-1. 6 mm. broad, brown, shining; old calyx persistent 

 beneath the fruit, the lobes triangular; seed subglobose, 9-11 

 mm. long. 



Type collected in the vicinity of Tiffin, Camagiiey, Cuba, 



November 1-5, 1909 (Shafer 2895); also collected at Santa Lucea, 



Camagiiey (Shafer 971); Province of Santa Clara (Britton & 



Wilson 4563; Britton, Cowell & Earle 10299). 



Copernicia Cowellii Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A small tree, up to 3 m. high, the head globose, about 1 m. 

 in diameter, very dense, the trunk up to 1.7 dm. thick, strictly 

 cylindric. Leaves many, the blades shining, yellow-green above, 

 covered with a bright white waxy bloom beneath, about 6 dm. 

 long, somewhat wider than long, the younger erect, the older per- 

 sistent, reflexed; petioles white-waxy, 1 dm. long or less, 3-5 

 cm. wide, flattened, armed with irregular, curved and somewhat 

 hooked teeth 5-8 mm. long; margins of the leaves with many 



