362 Britton: StrupiEs oF West INDIAN PLANTS 
Thickets in dry soil, Oriente, Camagiiey, and Santa Clara, 
Cuba. (Type, Britton 2086, from United States Naval Station, 
Guantanamo Bay, March 17-30, 1909.) 
3. BADIERA oBLonGaTA N. L. Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. 
Gard. 5: 314... 1907 
DIsTRIBUTION: Bahama Islands: Andros, New Providence, Cat 
Island, Acklin’s Island, Crooked Island, Watling’s Island, Caicos 
Islands; Cayo Sabinal and mainland of Camagiiey, Cuba (Shafer 
878 1085, 977; also collected in Cuba by Wright, xo. 115 in part). 
The Cuban specimens here referred have leaves mostly more 
obtuse at the base than those of the typical Bahamian plant, but 
a specimen from Andros Island (Small & Carter 8081) seems to 
be identical with them. 
A plant from the palm barren at Santa Clara, Cuba (Britton 
& Wailson 6066), has shorter emarginate leaves 12-20 mm. long, 
with the midvein deeply impressed above; it is tentatively re- 
ferred to this species. 
4. BADIERA DIVERSIFOLIA (L.) DC. Prodr. 1: 334. 1824 
Polygala diversifolia L. Sp. Pl. 703. 1753. 
Polygala jamaicensis Chodat, Mém. Soc. Phys. Genéve 31’: 
Ir. 1893. 
Jamaica, in hillside thickets and woodlands in relatively dry 
districts from sea level up to 1100 meters elevation. 
5. Badiera cubensis sp. nov. 
Polygala diversifolia Chodat, Mém. Soc. Phys. Genéve 31?: 
10. 1893. Not L. 
Leaves ovate to elliptic, 2.5-6 cm. long, 1.5-3.5 cm. wide, 
bluntly acuminate or acute at the apex, cuneate-narrowed or 
acute at the base; fruit 7.5-8.5 mm. long, 10 mm. wide, lobed to 
about one third, the lobes rounded. 
Cuban woodlands; type, Wright, no. 1913 from ‘‘La loma 
pelada, Dec. 27,” in herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.; also collected by 
Wright at “La Sabanilla”’ and distributed under this same number; 
Wright’s no. 3496 belongs to this species, and also part of his 115, 
collected in eastern Cuba. 
