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, 6-11 cm. long; pedicels slender, 1-1.5 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 (Léon 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 aici (immature?), 4 mm. in diameter, 
becoming black in drying 
Rocky limestone sail’ 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 axilla ary, solitary, 2 mm. long; 
young fruit ellipsoid, 5 mm. long, 4 mm. in diameter, black. 
Sabana de Motembo, Santa Clara, Cuba (Léon & Loustalot 
9394). 
Jacquinia Roigii P. Wilson sp. nov. 
PD ensiap or tree?; twigs and branches glabrous. Leaves obovate, 
4-8 cm. long, 1.4—2.7 cm. broad, ae spine-tipped at the apex, 
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