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4-5 mm. long; bracts ovate, densely pubescent, scarcely 0.5 mm. 

 long; pedicels slender, appressed-pubescent, 1.5-2.5 mm. long; 

 sepals suborbicular, rounded, pubescent, the larger about 1.3 mm. 

 long; petals white; keel pubescent on the sides, about 2.5 mm. 

 long; fruit (from Wright 1913, in part) 10 mm. wide, 7 mm. long, 

 deeply notched, scarcely margined, glabrous, decurrent on its 

 stipe, which is about 2 mm. long. 



Cuba. Type collected between Los Palacios and San Juan 

 de Zayas, Pinar del Rio {Shafer 11818). The description is 

 drawn to include the part of Wright igij , and Wright 3496, pre- 

 viously referred by me to B. cubensis. The part of Wright 115, 

 included by me in the original description of B. cubensis, is perhaps 

 referable here also. 



9. Badiera punctata sp. nov. 



A shrub about i m. high, with slender, ascending, or nearly 

 erect branches, the twigs densely appressed-pubescent with short 

 hairs. Leaves ovate to ovate-elliptic, firm in texture, 1.5-2.5 cm. 

 long, 12 mm. wide or less, obtuse or emarginate at the apex, obtuse 

 at the base, the midvein impressed above, prominent beneath » 

 the lateral veins 3 or 4 on each side, the upper surface strongly 

 punctate, shining and glabrous or nearly so, the under surface 

 dull, the petioles about 1.5 mm. long; inflorescence few-flowered; 

 bracts scarcely 0.5 mm. long; fruiting pedicels slender, nearly 

 glabrous, 2-2.5 rnm. long; sepals ovate, obtuse, ciliate, about i 

 mm. long; fruit (not quite mature) "green and red," 7 mm. wide, 

 about as long as wide, shallowly notched at the apex, obliquely 

 subtruncate at the base, narrowly margined, slightly pubescent, 

 its stipe 1-1.5 mm. long. 



Near a stream, Arroyo del Medio above the falls, Oriente, Cuba 

 {Shafer 3644). The leaves droop at night, a phenomenon also 

 observed in B. virgata. 



10. Badiera heterophylla sp. nov. 



An upright shrub 6 dm. high, the twigs short-pubescent with 

 somewhat spreading hairs. Leaves of two quite different forms, 

 (i) narrowly ovate, 3-4 cm. long, 12-18 mm. wide, bluntly acute 

 at the apex, (2) elliptic, 2-2.5 cm. long, 12-14 mm. wide, rounded 

 or obtuse at the apex; both forms emarginate at the apex, nar- 

 rowed or obtuse at the base, sparingly short-pubescent and dull 

 on both sides, the midvein impressed above, prominent beneath, 

 the slender lateral veins only 2 or 3 on each side'bf the midvein, 



