Britton: Studies of West Indian plants — XI 49 



oblong-lanceolate, long-acuminate, appressed-pilose; leaves op- 

 posite, the petioles stout, 2-3 mm. long, appressed-pilose, the 

 blades elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 2.5-6 cm. long, 1.2-3 cm - wide, 

 rounded at base, obtuse or rounded at apex, coriaceous, dark- 

 green above, lustrous, at first pilose with very slender whitish 

 appressed hairs but later glabrate, the venation depressed, paler 

 and brownish beneath, thinly scaberulous-pilosulous and with 

 longer subappressed hairs along the veins, the costa stout and 

 prominent, the lateral veins 5-7 pairs, subarcuate.anastamosing, 

 remote from the revolute margin; inflorescence few-flowered, 

 closely sessile, terminal and axillary, subtended by large, densely 

 pilose, oval bracts; hypanthium densely sericeous-pilose with 

 long whitish hairs, the calyx 5-7 mm. long, cleft into 3 or 4 

 spatulate-obovate, obtuse, densely sericeous lobes; corolla 

 brownish-red, the tube stout, 10-12 mm. long, densely pilose 

 with long whitish ascending hairs, the 4 lobes rounded-oval, 4 

 mm. long, glabrous within. 



Type collected on Loma del Gato, Cobre Range of Sierra 

 Maestra, Oriente, altitude 900-1000 meters {Leon, Clement and 

 Roca 10301; herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden). 



Guettarda cobrensis Standley, sp. nov. 



Shirub 3 meters high, the branches dark reddish brown, the 

 branchlets thick, densely covered with minute appressed fulvous 

 hairs, the internodes short; stipules oblong-ovate, 4 mm. long 

 or more, acuminate, thin, brown, pubescent like the branchlets 

 and with few long subappressed hairs; leaves opposite, the 

 petioles stout, 4-6 mm. long, minutely and densely appressed- 

 pilose, the blades oval or broadly oval, 3-6 cm. long, 2-4.5 cm - 

 wide, rounded at apex, deeply cordate at base, thick-coriaceous, 

 yellowish-green, concolorous, often somewhat bullate, glabrous 

 above, the venation depressed, beneath bearing a few short 

 appressed hairs along the coarse prominent costa, but elsewhere 

 glabrous, the lateral veins stout and prominent, 5 or 6 on each 

 side, subarcuate, ascending at an angle of 45-60°, the intermediate 

 veins inconspicuous, the margin subrevolute; peduncles about I 

 cm. long, pubescent like the branchlets, the flowers usually 3, 

 sessile; fruit globose, 1 cm. in diameter, minutely tomentulose. 



Type collected at edge of woods, Loma del Gato, Cobre Range 

 of Sierra Maestra, Oriente, altitude 800 meters (Leon, Clement 

 and Roca 10271; herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden). 



Related to G. crassipes Britton, in which the leaves are densely 

 long-pilose beneath along the costa. 



