18 BRITTON: STUDIES OF WEsT INDIAN PLANTS 
recurved teeth 2-3 mm. long, the leaf otherwise unarmed; in- 
florescence lax, the branches slender, densely clothed with short 
hairs; spathes of the inflorescence gradually tapering to long 
acuminate tips; calyx cylindric, 3-3.5 mm. high, the lobes strongly 
mucronate; corolla 5-6 mm. long, densely clothed with short, 
mostly appressed hairs on the outer surface, the lobes prominently 
grooved within below the middle, the grooves hairy on the margin, 
longitudinally converging and bearded above; dilated portion of 
the filaments prominently triangular; carpels truncate at the 
summit, grooved; styles nearly cylindric; fruiting panicles about 
twice as long as the leaves, pendent, glabrous, much-branched, 
slender, the stalk about as long as the fruit-bearing part; sheath 
closely appressed, the lower up to 1 dm. long; fruits close together 
on the ultimate branches of the panicle, subglobose, obovoid, a 
little longer than thick, yellow when full-grown but not quite ripe, 
shining, 14-17 mm. long; old calyx-segments persistent under the 
fruit, triangular-ovate, acute, 2 mm. long; flesh of old ripe fruit 
very thin; seed smooth, about 12 mm. long; endosperm bony, 
grooved 
Seedlings have rough-edged leaves green on both sides. 
Type collected in savannas near Camagiiey, Cuba, April 2-7, 
1912 (Britton, Britton & Cowell 13187); also collected in the prov- 
ince of Camagiiey (Shafer 508, 1144, 2917). 
Anneslia enervis sp. nov. 
A shrub or small tree 4 m. high, with slender, stiff, somewhat 
zigzag twigs sparingly pubescent when young, soon glabrous. 
Leaves very small; pinnae 2, the petiole and petiolules each 
about 1 mm. long, rather stout; pinnules 2 to each pinna, 2-3 
mm. long, obovate, sessile, nerveless, shining, rounded at the apex, 
oblique at the base; heads nearly sessile in the upper axils, few- 
flowered; calyx campanulate, 1.5 mm. long, its teeth acute; 
corolla about 3 mm. long; stamens 6-7 mm. long; legume gla- 
brous, 3-4 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, abruptly tipped at the apex, 
narrowed from below the middle to the base, the valves subcoria- 
ceous. 
Mountains of northern Oriente, Cuba; type from Camp La 
Gloria, south of Sierra Moa, Shafer 8274, December, 1910. 
Not closely related to any species known to me, but somewhat 
resembling A. colletioides (Griseb.) Britton [Calliandra colletioides 
Griseb.] of low elevations in dry parts of the same province. 
