Britton: Studies of West Indian plants — XI 45 



Eugenia brevipetiolata Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A glabrous shrub, with rather thick brownish gray twigs. 

 Leaves oval to suborbicular, 5-8 cm. long, 4-6.5 cm. broad, 

 rounded at both ends, dark yellowish green above, paler beneath, 

 the midrib impressed above, prominent beneath, the lateral 

 veins slender, slightly elevated on both surfaces; petioles stout, 

 2-3 mm. long; buds subglobose, 6 mm. in diameter, solitary or 

 few together in the axils of the leaves, glabrous. 



Sierra Maestra, Oriente {Leon 11046). 



Eugenia rigidula Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



Shrub 1 m. tall, with slender brownish pubescent twigs. 

 Leaves lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, rigid-coriaceous, 1-2.8 

 cm. long, 4-1 1 mm. broad, acute at the apex, rounded at the 

 base, sparingly pubescent on both sides when young, glabrous at 

 maturity, the petioles 1 mm. long or less ; young fruits subglobose, 

 4-5 mm. in diameter, pubescent with appressed whitish hairs. 



Edge of woods, Sierra Maestra, Oriente {Leon, Clement and 

 Roca 10634). 



Anamomis reticulata Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



Shrub or tree, the young twigs slender, brown, puberulent, 

 the branches gray. Leaves obovate, coriaceous, 3-4.5 cm. long, 

 1-2.5 cm - broad, rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base, 

 yellowish-green above, paler beneath, sparingly pubescent on 

 both sides when young with short appressed hairs, glabrous at 

 maturity, reticulate-veined; branches of the inflorescence ap- 

 pressed-pubescent ; flowers undeveloped. 



Sierra Maestra, Oriente {Leon 10068). 



Graffenrieda rufescens Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



Shrub 3 m. tall, the branches, twigs, calyx and under surface 

 of the leaves densely scurfy with brownish scales. Leaves 

 elliptic, 4.5-10 cm. long, 2.4-4 cm. wide, acuminate at the apex, 

 acute at the base, 3-nerved, dark green and glabrous above, the 

 petioles 1-2 cm. long; inflorescence much-branched; flowers 

 short-pedicelled ; calyx-tube 3-3.5 mm. long, 8-ribbed, its lobes 

 semiorbicular, I mm. long or less; petals suborbicular or orbicu- 

 ular-obovoid, 3.5 mm. long, 3-3.5 mm. wide, yellow. 



Sierra Maestra, Oriente {Leon 11047). 



Miconia plumieriaefolia Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



Shrub, the twigs, petioles and branches of the inflorescence 

 clothed with a dense brownish white stellate scurf. Leaves 



