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34. PORTLANDIA [P. Br.| L., IN THE WEST INDIES 
The type species is Porilandia grandiflora L. 
1. Leaves cordate or subcordate at base, sessile or nearly so. 
Capsules 1 cm. long or less. 
Leaves orbicular, 2.5 cm. wide or less; corolla yellow; 
flowers sessile or very nearly so. 1. P. sessilifolia. 
Leaves elie 5-10 cm. long; corolla pinkish; flowers 
pedicelled. P. nitens. 
Capsules erie 2 cm. long. 3. Pf. Harish. 
2. Leaves narrowed or rounded at the base, petioled. 
Leaves rounded or obtuse at the apex. 
s elliptic. 4. P. elliptica. 
ges obovate or oblanceolate. 
Capsule involucrate by bractlets. 5. P. involucrata. 
psule not involucrate. 6. P. uliginosa. 
Leaves ae or acuminate at the apex. 
Calyx-lobes oblong to ovate. 4. P. grandiflora. 
Calyx-lobes linear to subulat 
Capsule 1 cm. long or init leaves 5—8 cm. long. 8. P. pendula. 
Capsule 1.5—5 cm. long; leaves 6-15 cm. long. 
Capsule saute angl 
Leaves ovate to elliptic: calyx-lobes linear; 
corolla 5-7 cm. long. 9. P. coccinea. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate; calyx-lobes long- 
subulate; corolla 2—-2.5 dm. long. 10. P. Lindeniana, 
prone distinctly angular. 
Capsule long-stalked, tru 11. P. daphnoides. 
Capsule short-stalked, anaes at both ends. 12. P. domingensis. 
1. Portlandia sessilifolia sp. nov. 
A branching resinous shrub about 1.3 m. high, the young twigs 
short-pubescent, angular. Leaves thick-coriaceous, orbicular, 1.5- 
m. long, sessile, subcordate, shining above, dull beneath, very 
indistinctly veined, the margins thick and revolute, their bases. 
connected by a stipular sheath; inflorescence terminal, sessile, 
subcapitate, several-flowered; pedicels very short; calyx about 
8 mm. long, very resinous, the linear lobes about as long as the 
tube; corolla tubular-campanulate, yellow, 1.5 cm. long; capsule 
oblong-obovoid, 5-6 mm. long. 
Wet mountains of northern Oriente, Cuba. Type from Camp 
La Gloria, south of Sierra Moa, Cuba, December, 1910 (Shafer 
8190). 
A specimen from between Rio Yamaniguey and Camp Toa 
(Shafer 4180) with much larger elliptic leaves, 11 cm. long or less, 
but otherwise similar, may, perhaps, be referred to this species. 
