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0.5 mm. long; fruit ovate-ellipsoid, 5-6 mm. long, about 3 mm. 

 thick, dark red. 



Wet mountains of northern Oriente. Type from vicinity of 

 Camp San Benito, 900 m. alt. (Shafer 4040). 



20. C. PALLIDA C. Wright; Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 61. 1866 



Type locality: Western Cuba, near San Marco. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality {Wright 

 2254]. 



21. C. diversifolia Jacq. Enum. 19, 1760 



Type locality: Caribbean Islands. 



Distribution: Cuba, collected by Read, according to Lindau: 

 Bahamas; Jamaica; Hispaniola; Porto Rico; Vieques; St. Thomas; 

 St. Jan ; St. Croix ; Saba ; Anguilla (?) ; Antigua ; Montserrat ; Guade- 

 loupe; Dominica; Martinique; St. Lucia; Barbadoes; Bonaire; 

 Curasao; Aruba. Planted in Bermuda. 



22. Coccolobis brevipes sp. nov. 



Twigs slender, densely puberulent. Leaves chartaceous, ellip- 

 tic, 3-7 cm. long, bluntly acute at the apex, obliquely narrowed or 

 rounded at the base, shining above, glaucescent beneath, glabrous 

 and strongly reticulate-veined on both sides, the principal veins 

 prominent beneath ; petioles stout, 2-3 mm. long; racemes terminal, 

 about 5 cm. long, densely puberulent; bracts puberulent, acute, 

 scarcely i mm. long; ochreolae about as long as the bracts; 

 flowering pedicels 0.5-0.8 mm. long; flowers about 1.5 mm. long, 

 the perianth-lobes ovate. 



Cuba {Wright 2257 in herbarium of the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden). Lindau, in Bot. Jahrb. 13: 152, cites this number as 

 part of C. Wrightii Lindau, but the specimen here described is 

 different from Wright 1395, the type of C. Wrightii. 



C. brevipes is similar to C. rufescens C. Wright in leaf-form and 

 pubescence, but the venation is quite different. 



23. C. Wrightii Lindau, Bot. Jahrb. 13: 151. 1891 



Type locality: Near Monte Verde, Oriente. 

 Distribution: Mountains of northern Oriente. 

 Referred by Grisebach to C. tenuifolia L. 



