368 Brittox: Studies of West Indian plants 



Meisner cites Sagra's Nos. 290 and 544, on which he based 

 C. calobotrys, from the vicinity of Havana, but the plant is not 

 known to grow in Havana Province. I have not seen the type 

 specimens. A specimen from Ensenada de Mora, Oriente 

 {Britton, Cozvell &' Shafer 13003), is from a slender tree 7 m. high. 



7. Coccolobis Cowellii sp. nov. 



A glabrous shrub, 1.5 m. high, with few, stout, ascending 

 branches. Leaves thick-coriaceous, shining, deeply cordate at the 

 nearly sessile base, bullate, with strongly revolute margins, diversi- 

 form, some ovate to ovate-elliptic, 5-9 cm. long, rounded at the 

 apex, some elongated-lanceolate, attenuate-acuminate, IQ-18 cm. 

 long; principal venation impressed above, prominent beneath; 

 ultimate venation obscure on both surfaces; racemes terminal, 

 nearly sessile, 1-3 dm. long, the rachis and pedicels glabrous; 

 pedicels filiform, 3-6 mm. long, spreading; bracts scarcely i 

 mm. long, ovate, acute, about as long as the nearly truncate 

 ochreolae; flowers bright red, 3 mm. long; perianth-lobes oblong, 

 obtuse; fruit ovoid, acute, 4 mm. long, crowned by the calyx-lobes. 



Barren rocky soil, savannas near Camaguey {Britton & Cowell 



^3151)- 



8. C. NiPENSis Urban, Repert. 13: 445. 1914 



Type locality: Pine lands, 500-650 m. alt.. Sierra Nipe, 

 near Woodfred, Oriente. 



Distribution: Mountains of northern Oriente. Endemic. 



This species is noted by Dr. Shafer as forming a tree up to 

 10 m. high. 



9. C. laurifolia Jacq. Hort. Schoen. 3: 9. pi. 267. 1798 



C.floridana Meisn. in DC. Prodr. 14: 165. 1857. 



Type locality : Caracas. 



Distribution: Thickets and woodlands at lower elevations 

 near the coasts, Oriente, Camaguey, Matanzas, Isle of Pines: 

 Florida; Bahamas; Jamaica; Hispaniola to St. Croix; Venezuela. 



10. C. retusa Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 61. 1866 



C. leoganensis parvifolia Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 61. 1866. 

 Hyponym. ^ -'' 



