10 BRITTON : StuDIES OF WEsT INDIAN PLANTS 
distantly low-serrate, 10 cm. long or less, 3-5 cm. wide, glabrous, 
shining and with the inconspicuous venation somewhat impressed 
above, pale, strongly reticulate-veined with elevated venation, 
and rather densely pubescent beneath, the stout nearly terete 
petioles puberulent, 8-12 mm. long; flowers and fruit unknown. 
Apparently related to C. spinosum Urban, of Santo Domingo, 
which has similar leaves with bristle-tipped teeth and_ villous 
petioles. 
Pseudocarpidium pungens sp. nov. 
A tree 8 m. high, the twigs slender. Leaves oblong to oblong- 
lanceolate, 3-7 cm. long, 3 cm. wide or less, chartaceous, strongly 
pinnately veined, spinulose-dentate, the apex acuminate, spinulose- 
tipped, the base obtuse, the upper surface smooth and shining, the 
under surface dull and puberulent; fruit irregularly 4-lobed, 
puberulent, depressed, 8 mm. in diameter. 
Hillside, near Guantanamo, Oriente, Cuba, March 1909, 
Britton 1992, type; Sevilla Estate, near Santiago, Oriente, Cuba, 
Norman Taylor ro. 
Related to P. avicennioides (A. Rich.) Millsp., which has 
entire leaves and more deeply lobed fruit. 
Pseudocarpidium rigens (Griseb.) Britton comb. nov., Vitex 
rigens Griseb., has glabrous oblong to oblanceolate shining leaves, 
spinulose-dentate, at least above the middle, or some of them 
entire. 
Portlandia nitens sp. nov. 
A slender shrub, about 3 meters high. Leaves sessile, coria- 
ceous, broadly ovate-elliptic, rounded at the apex, cordate or 
subcordate at the base, i 
han th ; pedicels short, viscid; calyx 
viscid, its lobes linear, about 8 mm. long; corolla pink, campanu- 
late, 2.5 cm. long; capsule obovoid-oblong, 13 mm. long. 
Dry thicket, upper valley of the Rio Navas, Oriente, March 
22, 1910, Shafer 4450. 
Elaeagia cubensis Sp. nov. 
A shrub, up to 3.2 meters hi 
young twigs, branches of the in 
pubescent. Leaves chartaceou 
long or less, 2.5~3 cm. wide, abr 
gh, the branches rather stout, the 
florescence, and pedicels minutely 
s, oblong or oblong-obovate, 7 cm. 
uptly short-acuminate at the apex, 
