464 Britton: STUDIES OF WEsT INDIAN PLANTS 
1.5-2 cm. long; leaves lanceolate-ovate to oblong-ovate or ovate, 
7-14 cm. long, 2.5-5 cm. broad, acute at the apex, subtruncate or - 
rounded at the base, 5-nerved, finely reticulate-veined and gla- 
brous above, reticulate-veined and minutely papillose beneath; 
inflorescence corymbose; flowers long-pedicelled; calyx scarlet, 
puberulent with appressed hairs; petals lanceolate or occasionally 
somewhat oblanceolate, 1.2-1.6 cm. long, 2-2.7 mm. broad; sterile 
stamens 9, half as long as the fertile stamen; ovary stipitate; pods 
oblong, 5-9 cm. long, 0.8-1.5 cm. broad, brown; seeds oblong- 
elliptic to elliptic, 7-8 mm. long, 5-5.5 mm. broad, brownish black. 
Wooded limestone plain, Coe’s Camp, Ensenada de Siguanea 
(Britton & Wilson 14851, type); coastal plain, San Juan (Britton & 
Wilson 15544); coral soil, north of Caleta Grande (O. E. Jennings 
480). 
Savia perlucens sp. nov. 
A shrub, about 2 m. high, the slender branches terete, grey. 
Stipules ovate, acute; leaves obovate or elliptic-obovate, coriaceous 
entire, 9 cm. long or less, acute or acuminate at the apex, obtuse 
or acute at the base, bright green and strongly shining above, dull 
green beneath, the midvein prominent above and beneath, both 
surfaces reticulate-veined ; flower-clusters supra-axillary, depressed, 
about 3 mm. broad, puberulent. 
Limestone plain, Caleta Grande (Britton, Wilson & Leon 
15330), 
Phyllanthus nanus Millspaugh, sp. nov. 
A low, spreading, glabrous perennial, about 5 cm. in extent, 
with thick, strongly imbricated leaves. Root thick, branching, 
giving off a mass of thread-like rootlets. Stems many, springing 
from the rootstalk, very short (1-1.5 cm.); branches diffuse, 
rather thick and striate, 1-2 cm. long. Inflorescence dioecious, 
biflorate, in the axils of the apical leaves of the short branchlets. 
Leaves thick, glabrous, ovate, cordate, acute, entire, 1.3XI- 
2.3X1.75 mm.; petioles very short; stipules entire, aristate from 
a deltoid base, the upper half withered to a dark brown color. 
F lowers sessile or nearly so; sepals 5, equal, ovate, acute, strongly 
striate-keeled ; glands 5, verrucoid, minute; staminal column twice 
the length of the anthers; anthers 2, transversely connate in an 
apical ring; female calyx as in the male but nearly twice the size; 
ovary 3-carpelled, 6-celled, nearly sessile; styles 3, short, bifid to 
half their length, the stigmatic apices cleaveate; capsule depressed- 
globose, glabrous; seeds dark brown, sharply angled, 0.9 X0.75 mm. 
dorsal facet minutely and closely transverse anastomose-wrinkled. 
In white sand in the vicinity of Los Indios (Britton & Wilson 
