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Type locality: Eastern Cuba. 



Distribution: Thickets and hillsides, Oriente, Santa Clara, 

 Pinar del Rio: Hispaniola (?). 



II. C. cubensis Meisn. in DC. Prodr. 14: 162. 1857 



Type locality: Cuba [near Santiago]. 



Distribution: Oriente. Endemic. 



Dr. Shafer's 422Q, from rich woods in the alluvial valley of 

 Rio Yamanigyey, northern Oriente, referred to this species from 

 description, is from a tree 5 m. high. 



12. Coccolobis colomensis sp. nov. 



A glabrous shrub, 2 m. high, with slender twigs. Leaves 

 chartaceous, ovate to elliptic, 4-10 cm. long, bluntly acute at the 

 apex, obliquely obtuse at the base, strongly reticulate-veined and 

 shining on both sides, the rather stout petioles 6-10 mm. long; 

 racemes glabrous, terminal, nodding, much shorter than the leaves, 

 5 cm. long or less; ochreolae less than 0.5 mm. long; pedicels 

 about 1.5 mm. long, spreading; flowers about i mm. long, the 

 ovate perianth-lobes as long as the tube; anthers not exserted; 

 young fruit ovoid, about 3.5 mm. long, short-coronate. 



Marsh near Coloma, Pinar del Rio {Britton &' Gager 7037). 



13. C. COSTATA C. Wright; Sauvalle, Anales Acad. Habana 7: 343. 



1870 



C. teoganensis cordata Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 61. 1866. Hyponym. 



Type locality: Cuba [C. Wright 1393, eastern Cuba]. 



Distribution: Mountains of Oriente; Porto Rico. 



Dr. Shafer's 3084, which satisfactorily matches Wright 

 1393, is from a tree 8 m. high, at 400-500 m. alt. on the Sierra 

 Nipe, in dry rocky thickets; he noted the flowers as white and the 

 fruit red-black. 



14. Coccolobis Shaferi sp. nov. 



A shrub or small tree up to 4 m. high, the twigs and leaves 

 glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, ovate or ovate-elliptic to lanceolate, 

 12 cm. long or less, strongly and rather densely reticulate-veined 

 on both sides, obtuse, acute or acuminate at the apex, cordate at 

 the base, the stout petioles about i cm. long; spikes dense, 



