﻿508 Brixton: Studies of West Indian plants 



.rdate; corolla much smaller. 



I. Guettarda Echinodendron C. Wright; Sauvalle, Anales 



Acad. Habana 6: 124. 1869 

 Stenostomum microphyllum Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 133. 1866. 



Not Guettarda microphylla Bartl. 



Type locality: Near San Marcos, western Cuba. 



Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



2. Guettarda Coxiana sp. nov. 

 A shrub, 2.5 m. high, with short, slender, densely pubescent 

 twigs, the leaf-scars long-persistent. Stipules ovate, acuminate, 

 2-3. mm. long;, leaves ovate or ovate-elUptic, 2 cm. long or less, 

 coriaceous, rigid, the apex acute and spinulose-tipped, the base 

 obtuse, the upper surface smooth, with indistinct venation, the 

 under surface very prominently reticulate-veined and densely 

 pubescent, the stout pubescent petiole 1-2 mm. long; peduncles 

 axillary, i -flowered or 2 -flowered, pubescent, 2.5-3 mm. long; 

 bractlets subulate, i mm. long; calyx obconic, truncate, densely 

 puberulent, 2 mm. long; corolla yellowish, densely puberulent, 



