38 BRITTON: STUDIES OF WeEsT INDIAN PLANTS—XI 
Persea anomala Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A shrub or tree, sometimes 10 m. tall, with appressed- pulse: 
cent twigs. Leaves aypeseees to ovate or elliptic, 4-10 
long or less, 1.8-5.5 cm. broad, rounded, obtuse, or sear. at 
the apex, rounded or sohewnat acutish at the base, glabrous and 
reticulate-veined on both sides, the petioles slender, 1-1.8 cm 
long; branches of the inflorescence pubescent with appressed 
baie: calyx ee. greenish, its lobes unequal, the outer 
adly ovate, about I mm . long, 0.7 mm. broad, the inner 
elliptic or broadly fae 1, 72 mm. long, I1.5-I1.7 mm. broa 
berry subglobose, 11 mm. long, black. 
Sierra Maestra, Oriente (Léon 10707, type; 10975; -10076; 
10079; I1057). 
Persea similis Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
Twigs appressed-pubescent. Leaves elliptic, 4-7 cm. long, 
acute or short-acuminate at the apex, acute at the base, dark 
green and glabrous above, the midvein impressed, paler beneath 
and pubescent with short appressed hairs, the lateral veins 
rather indistinct on both sides; petioles 3-4 mm ; in 
florescence pubescent with appressed brownish hairs; calyx- 
lobes elliptic a pia 1.8 mm. long, about I mm. broad, ap- 
pressed-pubesc 
Sierra sep ‘Grae (Léon 11058). 
Nectandra reticularis Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A shrub with ppPrccent twigs. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, 
3.5-6.8 cm. pig I-2.3 cm. broad, acute to acuminate at the 
pex, acute the base, glabrous, dark green, shining and 
BSI UR a above, paler and reales. veined beneath; 
petioles 7 mm. long or less; inflorescence long-peduncled, the 
peduncle puberulent; flowers short-pedicelled; calyx white, its 
lobes elliptic, 1.5 mm. long, about 1 mm. broad, puberulent ; 
drupe ellipsoid, about 1.1 cm. long, 6 mm. in diamet ter. 
Sierra Maestra, Oriente (Léon 10746, type; 100958). 
Rubus turquinensis Rydberg, sp. nov. 
Stem terete, 1-2 m. high, densely fuscous, villous-tomentose 
and with numerous staike d glands, armed with somewhat com 
pressed curved pubescent prickles 48 mm. long; leaves of the 
Pegg 3-foliolate, those of the main stem not seen; petiole and 
e leaflets villous-tomentose, glandular, and slightly 
ehicily : vsetiohite of the terminal leaflet 7-15 mm. long, those of 
the lateral leaflets 1-4 mm. long; leaflets lanceolate, long-acu- 
‘minate, mostly rounded at the base, finely and closely serrate, 
