460. BRITTON: STUDIES OF WEsT INDIAN PLANTS 
densely stellate-canescent, prominently 5-nerved; petioles 1.5-2.5 
cm. long; flowers sessile, calyx campanulate, densely stellate- 
tomentulose, the lobes 5, deltoid at the base, linear above, 5-6 
mm. long. 
Low dry thickets, pine-lands, Sierra Nipe, near Woodfred, 
Oriente (Shafer 2967). 
Labatia aristata Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A much-branched shrub, 2-3 m. high, the branches rigid, gray, 
the young twigs appressed-pubescent. Leaves broadly ovate to 
suborbicular, 2-3.5 cm. long, coriaceous, glabrous, strongly pin- 
nately and reticulate-veined, dark green and shining above, dull 
green beneath, aristate at the apex, rounded or subcordate at the 
base, the yellowish green, rather stout petioles 5-10 mm. long; 
pedicels solitary or several together, slender, glabrous, 5-8 mm. long; 
calyx sparingly pubescent, 2.5-3 mm. long, deeply 4- to 5-lobed, 
the lobes lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acutish, scarcely im- 
bricated ; corolla green, about 2.5 mm. long, 4-5-lobed to about the 
middle, the lobes rounded, slightly imbricated; anthers oblong, a 
little longer than the filaments; staminodia obovate, somewhat 
longer than the filaments; drupe oval, dark purple, 2.5 cm. long, 
its flesh very thin; seeds 2, oblong. 
Coastal hills and thickets, provinces of Oriente, Santa Clara 
and Havana, Cuba; type collected between the Rio Chorrera 
and Marianao, Havana (Brother Leon 6230). 
Tournefortia Earlei sp. nov. 
A shrub, 1-2 m. high, with long, slender branches, or vine-like 
and 3 m. long, the branches densely pubescent with short, soft, 
appressed hairs. Leaves narrowly linear, or linear-lanceolate, 
3-7 cm. long, 2~6 mm. wide, acute or bluntish at the apex, densely 
appressed-pubescent above, densely white-tomentulose beneath, 
the petioles I.5-3 mm. long; cymes short-peduncled, their few, 
very slender branches 2-4 cm. long; calyx 1 mm. long, appressed- 
pubescent, its lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate lobes acute; corolla- 
tube about 2 mm. long, the narrowly lanceolate lobes about as 
long; fruit depressed, 4 mm. broad, about one half as high as 
broad, glabrous. 
Hillsides, Guantanamo Bay and Santiago Bay, Oriente. Type 
from Guantanamo Bay (F. S. Earle 82). Related to T. incana 
Lam. and T. stenophylla Urban. | 
