Notes on Rutaceae — IV 
PERCY WILSON 
In the large collection of plants recently made in eastern Cuba 
by Dr. J. A. Shafer there are two species of Rutaceae which 
hitherto have apparently escaped recognition. Descriptions of 
them follow: 
Ravenia Shaferi P. Wilson, sp. nov. 
A glabrous shrub or tree, 4-7 m. tall, with a grayish bark. 
Leaves simple, elliptic to ovate, or occasionally somewhat obovate, 
5-10 cm. long, 2-5 cm. broad, sessile or subsessile, entire, more or 
less revolute, acute or occasionally obtuse at the apex, acute or 
somewhat rounded at the base, glandular-punctate; inflorescence 
ovate to nearly oval, 5-7 mm. long, 4.5-5.5 mm. broad, all 
glandular-punctate; ‘‘corolla red,’ glandular-punctate, the tube 
cylindric, 1.2-1.5 cm. long, the lobes 4, unequal, oblong to oblong- 
obovate, 1.4-2 cm. long, 0.8-1 cm. broad; stamens 4, adnate to 
the throat of the corolla, the two inferior ones fertile, sessile, the 
two superior ones sterile, linear to subulate, flattened; disk cup- 
shaped; ovary 4-lobed, 4-celled, immersed in the disk; style fili- 
form; stigma 4-lobed. 
Type collected in alluvial valley of Rio Yamaniguey, Province 
of Oriente, Cuba, Shafer 4218. 
DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Cuba. 
The other species of Ravenia, so far as I know, are 5-merous. 
Spathelia cubensis P. Wilson, sp. nov. 
A slender, branchless tree, I-3 m. tall; new growth and under 
surface of the young foliage velvety with a reddish stellate pubes- 
cence intermixed with simple hairs. Leaves odd-pinnate, 3-3.5 
dm. long, the rachis wingless, narrowly grooved above, velvety 
when young, glabrous or nearly so with age; leaflets 41-57, those 
on the branches of the inflorescence fewer in number, oblong, 3-7 
cm. long, 6-10 mm. broad, sessile, entire, more or less revolute, 
acutish or rounded at the gland-tipped apex, cordate or sometimes 
inequilateral at the base, dull gieen above and glabrous, paler be- 
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