46 BRITTON: STUDIES OF WEsT INDIAN PLANTS—XI 
3-nerved, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, 10.5-15 cm. 
long, 2.5-3.8 cm. broad, green and glabrous or nearly so above, 
deity ferruginous-pubescent beneath poe short stellate hairs, 
reticulate-veined, the lateral veins 2-3 mm. distant, nearly at 
ia angles to the midrib, the petioles 1.5— =: cm. long; branches 
the inflorescence loosely articulate; pedicels 2—-4.5 mm. long; 
fowers undeveloped; calyx-lobes shortly Wanbuise! ovate. 
Sierra Maestra, Oriente (Léon 10925). 
Rapanea microphylla Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A glabrous shrub, with short ee ea twigs. Leaves 
obovate or oblong-obovate, coriaceo 8-20 mm. long, pin- 
nately few-veined, punctate, the apex abe the base Kove 
the petioles 2-3 mm. long; fruits nearly sessile, subglobose, 
shining, about 3 mm. in diameter 
Pico Turquino, Sierra ereaieas Oriente (Léon 10714). 
Symplocos Leonis Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
Shrub, the twigs he brown, ride Pana oe 
subcoriaceous, 4-8. . long, 2-4 cm. broad, ro ob- 
tusely acute at the ae ‘acute at the pre dark paren glabrous 
and indistinctly reticulate-veined above, the midrib impressed, 
paler, reticulate-veined and pubescent with appresse ie! hairs ° 
especially on the ee ay beneath, or nearly glabrous; petioles 
about 5 mm. gt inflorescence pubescent with ferruginous hairs; 
calyx-lobes elliptic, 1.4 mm. long, 0.9 mm. broad; petals 5, broad- 
ly oval, 3-3.5 mm. long, 2.5 mm. broad, glabrous: filaments dis- 
tinct nearly to i base; fruit ellipsoid, 8. 5mm reed 5.5 mm. in 
diameter, pubescent with scattered appressed hairs 
Sierra Maestra, Oriente (Léon 10738, type; 10907). 
Plumiera montana Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
Sierra week Oriente. ee Wii banks of Yara River 
(Léon 11060). 
