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petioles 2-4 mm. long; spike terminal, few-flowered; bracts lan- 
ceolate, acuminate, villous, about 1.5 cm. long; calyx-teeth nar- 
rowly lanceolate, loosely villous; corolla rose-colored, 3.5 cm. 
long, loosely villous, 2-lipped, the teeth of the lobes short and 
rounded; filaments slender, nearly as long as the corolla, glabrous; 
anthers 2.5 mm. long. 
Crevices of limestone rocks, Peckham woods, Upper Clarendon, 
Jamaica (Harris 10978, type; 11178). 
32. UNDESCRIBED CUBAN SPECIES 
Copernicia rigida Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A tree up to 6 m. high, with a slender cylindric trunk. Leaf- 
blades wedge-shape, 13-15 dm. long, deeply grooved below the 
middle, bright green above, paler beneath and sometimes armed 
on the margins of the grooves with small, straight or recurved 
teeth 1-4 mm. long; leaf margins armed mostly below the middle 
with numerous recurved, straight, ascending, or sometimes hooked 
teeth 3-7 mm. long; petiole short, stout, I-1.5 dm. long, I-1.4 
dm. broad, unarmed; ligule rigid, rhombic-ovate, 2.5—3.5 dm. long, 
1.7-2 dm. broad, armed on the margin with ascending, recurved, 
straight or sometimes hooked teeth 3-12 mm. long, coalescent 
with and decurrent on the short petiole; inflorescence lax, branches 
slender, the ultimate ones densely clothed with short hairs; 
spathes of the inflorescence abruptly tapering to a long, slender 
acuminate tip; flowers unknown; fruit subglobose, 1.5-1.6 mm 
long, 1.4-1.6 mm. broad, brown, shining; old calyx persistent 
beneath the fruit, the lobes triangular; seed subglobose, 9-11 
mm. long. 
Type collected in the vicinity of Tiffin, Camagiiey, Cuba, 
November 1-5, 1909 (Shafer 2895); also collected at Santa Lucea, 
Camagiiey (Shafer 971); Province of Santa Clara (Britton & 
Wilson 4563; Britton, Cowell & Earle 10299). 
Copernicia Cowellii Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A small tree, up to 3 m. high, the head globose, about I m. 
in diameter, very dense, the trunk up to 1.7 dm. thick, strictly 
cylindric. Leaves many, the blades shining, yellow-green above, 
covered with a bright white waxy bloom beneath, about 6 dm. 
long, somewhat wider than long, the younger erect, the older per- 
sistent, reflexed; petioles white-waxy, 1 dm. long or less, 3-5 
cm. wide, flattened, armed with irregular, curved and somewhat 
“Sei teeth 5-8 mm. long; margins of the leaves with many 
