BRITTON: STUDIES OF West INDIAN PLANTS 19 
Belairia parvifoliola sp. nov. 
A slender tree, up to 10 m. high, the twigs copiously armed with 
dark brown to black subulate spines 1.5-3 cm. long. Leaves 
short-petioled, the slender rachis puberulent or short-pubescent; 
leaflets 7-13, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, shining, nearly equally 
bright green and rather prominently veined on boch sides, 8-13 
mm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, the base inequilateral, the apex mucro- 
nate, the petiolules 0.5 mm. long; legume narrowly oblong, 10-12 
mm. long, 3-4.5 mm. wide, narrowed at base and apex, strongly 
veined, borne on a filiform pedicel 6 mm. long or more. 
Coastal woods, thickets and hillsides, southern Oriente, from 
Guantanamo Bay to Ensenada de Mora. Type, Britton, Cowell 
& Shafer 13037, Ensenada de Mora, March, Ig12. 
Meibomia Cowellii sp. nov. 
Root thick and woody; stem slender, stiff, erect, hirsute, 3-8 
dm. high, simple, or with few nearly erect hirsute branches. 
Leaves unifoliolate, short-petioled, oblong, linear-oblong or lanceo- 
late, subcoriaceous, 2-10 cm. long, 2.5 cm. wide or less, obtuse 
and mucronulate at the apex, obtuse at the base, rather strongly 
reticulate-veined, finely short-pubescent above, villous-pubescent 
on the veins beneath, nearly equally green on both sides, the 
rather stout petioles 2-10 mm. long, the stipules lanceolate, 
striate, acuminate, 2-4 mm. long, the stipels subulate, about 3 
mm. long; panicle narrow, nearly simple, long-stalked, 1-3 dm. 
long; bracts linear-subulate, 2.5-4 mm. long; pedicels filiform, 
puberulent, 4-7 mm. long; calyx 2.5-3 mm. long, campanulate, 
pubescent, lobed to about the middle, the lobes lanceolate, acute; 
corolla purple, 10 mm. broad; loment short-stipitate, 4—6-jointed, 
2 cm. long or less, nearly equally constricted on both margins, the 
joints oval, about 4 mm. long and 2.5 mm. broad, loosely pubes- 
cent, indistinctly reticulate-veined. 
Savannas and pine-lands, Pinar del Rio and Isle of Pines, Cuba. 
Type, Britton, Britton & Cowell roogo, from between Pinar del 
Rio and Coloma, March 16, 1911. Related to M. angustifolia 
(H.B.K.) Kuntze. 
Kieseria cubensis sp. nov. 
A tree, up to 13 m. high, the twigs stout, densely leafy toward 
the ends. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-obovate, 6-10 cm. long, 
3 cm. wide or less, obtuse and rounded or somewhat emarginate 
at the apex, narrowed to the nearly sessile base; midvein impressed 
