460 Brixton: Studies of West Indian plants 



densely stellate-canescent, prominently 5-nerved; petioles 1.5-2.5 

 cm. long; flowers sessile, calyx campanulate, densely stellate- 

 tomentulose, the lobes 5, deltoid at the base, linear above, 5-6 

 mm. long. 



Low dry thickets, pine-lands, Sierra Nipe, near Woodfred, 

 Oriente {Shajer 2g6y). 



Labatia aristata Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A much-branched shrub, 2-3 m. high, the branches rigid, gray, 

 the young twigs appressed-pubescent. Leaves broadly ovate to 

 suborbicular, 2-3.5 cm. long, coriaceous, glabrous, strongly pin- 

 nately and reticulate-veined, dark green and shining above, dull 

 green beneath, aristate at the apex, rounded or subcordate at the 

 base, the yellowish green, rather stout petioles 5-10 mm. long; 

 pedicels solitary or several together, slender, glabrous, 5-8 mm. long ; 

 caKoc sparingly pubescent, 2.5-3 mm. long, deeply 4- to 5-lobed, 

 the lobes lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acutish, scarcely im- 

 bricated; corolla green, about 2.5 mm. long, 4-5-lobed to about the 

 middle, the lobes rounded, slightly imbricated; anthers oblong, a 

 little longer than the filaments; staminodia obovate, somewhat 

 longer than the filaments; drupe oval, dark purple, 2.5 cm. long, 

 its flesh very thin; seeds 2, oblong. 



Coastal hills and thickets, provinces of Oriente, Santa Clara 

 and Havana, Cuba; type collected between the Rio Chorrera 

 and Marianao, Hav^ana {Brother Leon 6230). 



Toumefortia Earlei sp. nov. 



A shrub, 1-2 m. high, with long, slender branches, or vine-like 

 and 3 m. long, the branches densely pubescent with short, soft, 

 appressed hairs. Leaves narrowly linear, or linear-lanceolate, 

 3-7 cm. long, 2-6 mm. wide, acute or bluntish at the apex, densely 

 appressed-pubescent above, densely white-tomentulose beneath, 

 the petioles 1.5-3 nim. long; cymes short-peduncled, their few, 

 very slender branches 2-4 cm. long; calyx i mm. long, appressed- 

 pubescent, its lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate lobes acute; corolla- 

 tube about 2 mm. long, the narrowly lanceolate lobes about as 

 long; fruit depressed, 4 mm. broad, about one half as high as 

 broad, glabrous. 



Hillsides, Guantanamo Bay and Santiago Bay, Oriente. Type 

 from Guantanamo Bay {F. S. Earle 82). Related to T. incana 

 Lam. and T. stenophylla Urban. 



