342 Britton: Studies of West Indian plants 



Ouratea savannarum Britton & Wilson sp. nov. 



A glabrous shrub 5 m. high, the slender twigs grayish-brown, 

 often somewhat flexuose. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate 

 to elliptic-ovate, 4-8 cm. long, 2-3.8 cm. broad, acuminate at the 

 apex, rounded at the base, faintly pinnately nerved, the margin 

 spinose-serrate; petioles short, stout, 3-4 mm. long; inflorescence 

 terminal, 6-1 1 cm. long; pedicels slender, I-I.5 cm. long; buds 

 ovoid; sepals oblong-lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, 7-7.5 mm. long, 

 3.2-3.5 mm. broad, obtuse at the apex; petals obovate, 9 mm. 

 long, 7 mm. broad, crenulate; anthers oblong-lanceolate or oblong, 

 2.5 mm. long, subsessile; style 6-7 mm. long; fruit unknown. 



Sabana de San Marcos, Santa Clara, Cuba (Leon 9205). 



Banara Brittonii Roig sp. nov. 



A slender shrub about 4 m. high, the young twigs densely 

 pubescent. Leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceo- 

 late, 4-7 cm. long, 1 .5-3 cm. wide, acute at the apex, more or less 

 inequilateral and rounded at the base, glabrous and shining above, 

 reticulate-veined and densely pubescent beneath with short, 

 whitish, mostly appressed hairs, the margin revolute, serrulate; 

 petioles 5-8 mm. long, slender, with one or two orbicular glands 

 at the summit; inflorescence terminal, inclined or pendulous, 5-7 

 cm. long, the branches puberulent, pedicels slender, 3-5 mm. long; 

 sepals oblong-elliptic to oblong-ovate, 2.5 mm. long, obtuse at 

 the apex, the margin ciliate; petals oval to suborbicular, about as 

 long as the sepals, yellow; stamens indefinite; anthers rounded; 

 style 1.5 mm. long; fruit globose (immature?), 4 mm. in diameter, 

 becoming black in drying. 



Rocky limestone soil, Cayo Mono, inside the swamp near 

 San Pedro, Isle of Pines (M. Cremata, May 17, 1920). 



Psidium Loustalotii Britton & Wilson sp. nov. 



A small shrub, with short, grayish, often spine-like twigs. 

 Leaves elliptic to oval, 2-4 mm. long, 1.5-3 mm - broad, rounded 

 at both ends, dark green and more or less minutely hispidulous 

 above, paler and strigillose beneath, coriaceous, the short petiole 

 0.5 mm. long or less; pedicels axillary, solitary, 2 mm. long; 

 young fruit ellipsoid, 5 mm. long, 4 mm. in diameter, black. 



Sabana de Motembo, Santa Clara, Cuba (Leon & Loustalot 



9394)- 



Jacquinia Roigii P. Wilson sp. nov. 



Shrub or tree?; twigs and branches glabrous. Leaves obovate, 

 4-8 cm. long, 1.4-2.7 cm. broad, strongly spine-tipped at the apex, 



