2 BRITTON: STUDIES OF WEST INDIAN PLANTS—XII 
Peperomia Leoclemerocana Trelease, sp. nov. 
A rather me <0 glabrous herb; stem succulent and 
rather thick (5-8 ; leaves alternate, broadly elliptic- ofoaie. 
rather large (2 X 5-4 X 6.5 cm.), drying rather coriaceous and dull, 
pinnately veined from about the middle, the principal ascending 
branches of the midrib 3 or 4 X 2; petiole scarcely 1 cm. long, 
winged; spikes terminal, paired or toward the end of a bracted 
stalk about 6 cm. long, 2 X 70-130 mm.; peduncle about 2 cm. 
long; bracts round-peltate, about .5 mm. in diameter and I0 to 
the pseudo-whorl; berries separated by somewhat evident ridges, 
ellipsoid, somewhat glandular, with stout curved beak; stigma 
anterior. 
Cobre range, Sierra Maestra, Oriente (Leon, Clement & Roca 
10436—the type at the New York Botanical Garden). 
Clidemia Clementiana Britton, sp nov. 
A shrub about 3 m. high, the very slender twigs, the petioles 
and the under leaf-surfaces puberulent. Leaves narrowly 
lanceolate, 1-nerved, chartaceous, entire, short-petioled, 2-6 cm 
long, glabrous above, the apex acuminate, the base arrowed, 
the lateral venation faint, spreading; inflorescence 1—3-flow ered: 
pedicels filiform, puberulent, 1-2 cm. long; calyx-lobes 4, faeae. 
2-3 mm. long; fruit 4-lobed, about 5 mm. in diameter 
Sierra Maestra, Oriente. Type from Loma del Gato, (Leon, 
Clement and Roca 9830). 
Rondeletia Ekmanii Britton & Standley, sp. nov. 
Branchlets brown, puberulent or scaberulous, finally glabrate; 
ters acon oes, idate, ue mm. long, erect, persistent; 
2-3 long, gl: or obscurely puberulent; leaf 
Sa ae eliptic to es oval, 2-4 cm. long, 1.2-2.5 cm. 
wide, rounded or very obtuse at apex, reused at base, coriaceous, 
salient, the lateral nerves few, distant, not conspicuous; inflores- 
cence terminating the main branches and on short leafy lateral 
twigs, few-flowered, open, the flowers slender-pedicellate; rachis 
the inflorescence scaberulous, the pedicels 4-5 mm. long; 
hypanthium globose, densely white-scaberulous; calyx-lobes 
linear-subulate, scarcely over I mm. long, subobtuse, brownish, 
scaberulous; corolla-tube 6 mm. long, dilated above, strigillose- 
scaberulous with white hairs, the 5 lobes broadly obovate, 
rounded at apex, tomentulose on the inner surface 
