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Nashia cayensis sp. nov. 



A densely branched, aromatic shrub, the slender pendent 

 branches finely rough-pubescent. Leaves ovate to elliptic, 15 

 mm. long or less, 5-9 mm. wide, obtuse or acutish at the apex, 

 mostly rounded at the base, scabrous above, pubescent and 

 glandular beneath, strongly few- veined with the venation im- 

 pressed above, prominent beneath, the petioles about i mm. 

 long; heads solitary in the axils, nearly sessile, globular and about 



5 mm. in diameter when in flower, oblong-cylindric and 10-15 

 mm. long in fruit, densely many-flowered; bracts broadly ovate 

 to obovate, pubescent and ciliate, about 3 mm. long; calyx of 

 2 narrowly spatiilate sepals nearly as long as the corolla; corolla 

 greenish, scarcely longer than the bracts, the somewhat irregular 

 limb about as long as the campanulate tube; filaments very short; 

 fruit orange-red, about 2 mm. in diameter. 



Near Pueblo Romano, Cayo Romano, Camaguey, Cuba 

 (Shafer 2450). Similar to Lippia myrtifolia Griseb., and clearly 

 congeneric with the generic type, N. inagiiensis Millsp. 



Exostema stenophyllum sp. nov. 



A shrub, up to 2 m. high, glabrous throughout, the slender 

 twigs rather densely leafy. Leaves linear to linear-oblanceolate, 



6 cm. long or less, 4-6 mm. wide, subcoriaceous, obtusish or acute 

 at the apex, narrowed to the sessile base, revolute-margined, the 

 midvein impressed above, prominent beneath, the lateral vena- 

 tion wholly obscure; stipules semicircular or short-ov^ate, obtuse, 

 mucronulate, about 2 mm. long; flowers terminal, solitary; 

 peduncle 1-1.5 cm. long; calyx narrowly campanulate, 8-IO mm. 

 long, its ovate-lanceolate acute teeth about one-third as long as 

 the tube; corolla white; corolla-tube about 14 cm. long, 1.5 mm. 

 thick; lobes of the corolla-limb linear, 2-3 cm. long; anthers 

 narrowly Hnear, about 18 mm. long and about as long as the 

 filaments; capsule oblong, 1.5-2.2 cm. long, about 8 mm. in 

 diameter. 



Among rocks at the water's edge, Rio Guayabo above the falls, 

 450-550 m. alt., Oriente {Shafer 3623). 



