Britton: Stuptes OF West INDIAN PLANTS 363 
Professor Chodat™ indicates this Cuban species as occurring 
also in Jamaica, but this I take to be an error. 
6. Badiera montana sp. nov. 
A shrub, 3 m. high, the twigs densely puberulent. Leaves 
broadly oval, 4-5 cm. long, 2.5-3.5 cm. wide, firm in texture, 
quite densely puberulent when unfolding and sparingly puberulent 
when mature, rounded or slightly emarginate at the apex, acutish 
at the base, dull dark green, the midvein slightly impressed in the 
upper surface, elevated on the underside, the lateral veins ae 
slender, the rather stout puberulent petioles 2-3 mm. long; i 
florescence several-flowered; bracts ovate, acute, cialand 
about 0.5 mm. long; fruiting pedicels pubescent, 1.5—2 mm. long; 
stipe of the fruit 1 mm. long; fruit 8-1ro mm. long, 10-12 mm. wide 
at the top, puberulent, lobed to about one fifth, the lobes rounded- 
truncate. 
Rocky wooded hill, Arroyo Grande, Trinidad Mountains, Cuba, 
at about 700 meters altitude (Britton & Wilson 5461, March 11, 
12, 1910). 
Differs from B. cubensis by its obtuse leaves, larger and longer 
fruit. 
7. BADIERA BERTERIANA Spreng. Syst. 3: 172. 1826 
Described as with oblong-lanceolate obtuse leaves and re- 
corded as from Hispaniola. Professor Chodat does not refer to 
this species in his monograph; it was collected by Bertero and 
called by him Polygala domingensis, but Sprengel’s description 
indicates that it is not Polygala domingensis of Jacquin, here 
referred to Badiera Penaea (L.) DC 
EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
Badiera (?) acuminata (Willd.) DC. Prodr. 1: 335 is POLYGALA 
ACUMINATA Willd. Sp. Pl. 3: 887, native of Peru and Chile. 
Professor Chodat describes it as new in his monograph (p. 46), 
but the name dates from at least the year 1803. 
Badiera (?) divaricata DC. Prodr. 1: 335, from Para, South 
America (presumably Brazil), was not taken up by Mr. A. W. 
Bennett in the Flora Brasiliensis. 
