22 BRITTON: STUDIES OF WEsT INDIAN PLANTS 
2. PORTLANDIA NITENS Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 39: 10. 1912 
Wet mountains of northern Oriente, Cuba. 
3. PorTLANDIA Harris Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 39: 8. 1912 
On limestone rocks, Peckham Woods, Upper Clarendon, 
Jamaica. 
To the original description the following may now be added 
from Mr. Harris’ subsequent collections and observations: Corolla 
white, tinged with rose, urn-shaped, about 9 cm. long and 3.5 cm. 
wide at the mouth, fragrant, the tips of its lobes reflexed; pedicels 
and calyx-lobes usually claret-colored; calyx-lobes oblong, about 
1.5 cm. long and 5 mm. wide; filaments pubescent below; anthers 
narrowly linear, yellow, nearly 2 cm. long, about half as long as 
the filaments (Harris 11209, Sept. 28, 1912). | 
4. Portlandia elliptica sp. nov. 
A slender shrub 3.3 m. high, the young twigs, pedicels and calyx 
finely pubescent. Leaves elliptic, coriaceous, glabrous, or when 
young, slightly pubescent, 8 cm. long or less, 2-4 cm. wide, obtuse 
or rounded at the apex, narrowed at the base, dark green and shin- 
ing above, bright green and rather dull beneath, the midvein 
prominent, the lateral veins obscure, the stout petioles 1 cm. long 
oc less, the stipular sheath truncate; inflorescence terminal, sessile, 
few-flowered; pedicels slender, 5-8 mm. long; calyx 10-12 mm. 
long, its linear-lanceolate lobes longer than the tube; corolla 
narrowly campanulate, glabrous, ochroleucous, 2 cm. long; cap- 
sule obovoid, 12 mm. long. 
Thickets on serpentine rocks, between Baracoa and Florida, 
Oriente, Cuba, March 15, 1910 (Shafer 4332). 
5. PORTLANDIA INVOLUCRATA Wernham, Jour. Bot. 51: 320. 1913 
Wet parts of northern Oriente, Cuba. As remarked by Mr. 
Wernham, perhaps not of this genus; the corolla is unknown. 
6. PORTLANDIA ULIGINOSA Wernham, Jour. Bot. 51: 320. 1913 
Between Rio Yamaniguey and Camp Toa, northern Oriente, 
Cuba. 
7. PORTLANDIA GRANDIFLORA L. Syst. ed. 10. 928. 17 
Thickets and hillsides at lower and middle altitudes, in moist 
districts, Jamaica; St. Thomas (native?); cultivated in Grenada, 
and in St. Croix. 
