BRITTON: StupiIEs oF West INDIAN PLANTS—XI 45 
Eugenia brevipetiolata Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
veins slender, slightly elevated on both surfaces; petioles stout, 
2-3 mm. long; buds subglobose, 6 mm. in diameter, solitary or 
few together in the axils of the leaves, glabrous. 
Sierra Maestra, Oriente (Léon T1046). 
~ Eugenia rigidula Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
Shrub 1 m. tall, with slender brownish pubescent twigs. 
Leaves lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, rigid-coriaceous, 1-2.8 
cm. long, 4-11 mm. broad, acute at the apex, rounded at the 
base, sparingly pubescent on both sides when young, glabrous at 
maturity, the petioles 1 mm. long or less; young fruits subglobose, 
4-5 mm. in diameter, pubescent with appressed whitish hairs. 
Edge of woods, Sierra Maestra, Oriente (Léon, Clement and 
Roca 10634). 
Anamomis reticulata Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
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the branches gray. Leaves obovate, coriaceous, 3-4.5 cm. long, 
I-2.5 cm. broad, rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base, 
yellowish-green above, paler beneath, sparingly pubescent on 
both sides when young with short appressed hairs, glabrous at 
maturity, reticulate-veined; branches of the inflorescence ap- 
pressed-pubescent; flowers undeveloped. 
Sierra Maestra, Oriente (Léon 10968). 
Graffenrieda rufescens Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
Shrub 3 m. tall, the branches, twigs, calyx and under surface 
of the leaves densely scurfy wi brownish scales. Leaves 
elliptic, 4.5-10 cm. long, 2.4-4 cm. wide, acuminate at the apex, 
acute at the base, 3-nerved, dark green and glabrous above, the 
petioles 1-2 cm. long; inflorescence much-branched ;. flowers 
short-pedicelled; calyx-tube 3-3.5 mm. long, 8-ribbed, its lobes 
semiorbicular, 1 mm. long or less; petals suborbicular or orbicu- 
ular-obovoid, 3.5 mm. long, 3-3-5 mm. wide, yellow. 
Sierra Maestra, Oriente (Léon 11047). 
Miconia plumieriaefolia Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
Shrub, the twigs, petioles and branches of the inflorescence 
clothed with a dense brownish white stellate scurf. Leaves 
