10 Britton : Studies of West Indian plants 



distantly low-serrate, 10 cm. long or less, 3-5 cm. wide, glabrous, 

 shining and with the inconspicuous venation somewhat impressed 

 above, pale, strongly reticulate-veined with elevated venation, 

 and rather densely pubescent beneath, the stout nearly terete 

 petioles puberulent, 8-12 mm. long; flowers and fruit unknown. 



Apparently related to C. spinosum Urban, of Santo Domingo, 



which has similar leaves with bristle-tipped teeth and villous 



petioles. 



Pseudocarpidium pungens sp. nov. 



A tree 8 m. high, the twigs slender. Leaves oblong to oblong- 

 lanceolate, 3-7 cm. long, 3 cm. wide or less, chartaceous, strongly 

 pinnately veined, spinulose-dentate, the apex acuminate, spinulose- 

 tipped, the base obtuse, the upper surface smooth and shining, the 

 under surface dull and puberulent; fruit irregularly 4-lobed, 

 puberulent, depressed, 8 mm. in diameter. .j 



Hillside, near Guantanamo, Oriente, Cuba, March 1909, 

 Britton IQQ2, type; Sevilla Estate, near Santiago, Oriente, Cuba, 

 Norman Taylor ig. | 



Related to P. avicennioides (A. Rich.) Millsp., which has 

 entire leaves and more deeply lobed fruit. 



Pseudocarpidium rigens (Griseb.) Britton comb, nov., Vitex 

 rigens Griseb., has glabrous oblong to oblanceolate shining leaves, 

 spinulose-dentate, at least above the middle, or some of them 

 entire. 



Portlandia nitens sp. nov. 



A slender shrub, about 3 meters high. Leaves sessile, coria- 

 ceous, broadly ovate-elliptic, rounded at the apex, cordate or 

 subcordate at the base, inconspicuously pinnately veined, shining 

 above, dull beneath, 9 cm. long or less, the upper much smaller 

 than the lower; flowers corymbose; pedicels short, viscid; calyx 

 viscid, its lobes linear, about 8 mm. long; corolla pink, campanu- 

 late, 2.5 cm. long; capsule obovoid-oblong, 13 mm. long. 



Dry thicket, upper valley of the Rio Navas, Oriente, March 

 22, 1910, Shafer 4450. 



Elaeagia cubensis sp. nov. 



A shrub, up to 3.2 meters high, the branches rather stout, the 

 young twigs, branches of the inflorescence, and pedicels minutely 

 pubescent. Leaves chartaceous, oblong or oblong-obovate, 7 cm. 

 long or less, 2.5-3 cm. wide, abruptly short-acuminate at the apex, 



