BRITTON: STUDIES OF WEsT INDIAN PLANTS 461 
Cestrum pinetorum sp. nov. 
A glabrous shrub, about 1 m. high, with slender branches. 
Leaves narrowly oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 7 cm. long or less, 
6-16 mm. wide, rather thin in texture, faintly shining, bluntly 
acute at the apex, narrowed at the base, the midvein slender above, 
prominent beneath, the lateral veins few, obscure, the slender peti- 
oles 3-5 mm. long; clusters axillary, few- to several-flowered; fruit- 
ing pedicels very short; fruiting calyx obconic-campanulate, about 
5 mm. long, its triangular-ovate teeth acutish, about one third as 
long as the tube; berry globose-ovoid, purplish, about 7 mm. long. 
Open pine-woods Sierra Nipe near Woodfred, Oriente, 500-650 
m. alt. (Shafer 3031, type; 3591). 
Casasia parvifolia sp. nov. 
A much-branched shrub, about 2 m. high, the twigs slender, 
puberulent when young. Stipules lanceolate, acute, about 3 mm. 
ong. Leaves glabrous, oblong-spatulate, 3 cm. long or less, 5-8 
mm. wide, obtuse or acutish at the apex, narrowed or cuneate at the 
base, coriaceous, clustered at the ends of the twigs, pinnately 
few-veined, shining and with impressed midvein above, the mid- 
vein very prominent beneath, the petioles about I mm. long; 
fruit terminal, solitary, sessile, globose, warty, about 10 mm. in 
diameter. 
Rocky river-banks, mountains of northern Oriente; type col- 
lected between Camp La Barga and Camp San Benito, 450-900 m. 
alt. (Shafer 4100). 
Baccharis Shaferi sp. nov. 
A glabrous shrub, 6 dm. high or less, with slender ascending 
branches, the twigs angled. Leaves triangular-cuneate, 6-12 mm. 
long, 7 mm. wide or less at the truncate or subtruncate apex, 
bright green and shining above, dull and whitish-papillose beneath, 
the slender midvein slightly elevated on both sides, the lateral 
veins I-3; heads sessile, solitary or 2 or 3 together at the ends of 
short twigs, or in the axils; young involucres about 4 mm. long, the 
Ovate, acute bracts imbricated in about 4 series. 
Dry pine woods, Arroyo del Medio above the falls, 450-550 m. 
alt., Oriente (Shafer 3257, type); specimens from Camp La 
Gloria, south of Sierra Moa, Oriente (Shafer 8213), have longer 
leaves than the type specimens. 
