48 Britton: StupIEs or WEsT INDIAN PLANTS—XI 
petioles 12 mm. long or less; calyx 10-11 mm. long, finely pu- 
bescent; corolla red, 1.8 cm. long or more, pubescent. 
Farallones de Regino, Estribo Turquino, Oriente, 1600 m. alt. 
(Léon rroro). 
Rondeletia naguensis Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A shrub about 2 m. high, the young twigs and inflorescence 
densely strigose. Leaves elliptic, subcoriaceous, 4-10 cm. long, 
sparingly strigose on the veins beneath when oung, soon 
glabrous, the apex obtuse or acute, the base obtuse or narrowed, 
the venation inconspicuous, the strigose petioles 6-12 mm. long; 
flowers in peduncled heads, the peduncles 2-4 cm. long; bractlets 
obovate, about 3 mm. long; calyx-lobes oblanceolate, 3. 5-4 mm. 
long, densely pubescent with appressed hairs; capsule subglobose, 
.5 mm. in diameter, appressed-pilose. 
Banks of a stream, Loma de Quintin, Nagua, Oriente (Léon 
10971). 
Rondeletia calophylla Standley, sp. nov. 
Branchlets slender, pilose-strigose ; stipules deltoid-acuminate, 
2.5 mm. long, erect, persistent; petioles stout, 2 mm 
nerves few and distant; inflorescence terminal on the main 
branches and on leafy lateral twigs, few-flowered, lax, the 
flowers pedicellate; calyx globose, densely whitish-strigillose; 
. long, obtuse, gla- 
brate, suberect; corolla densely white-strigillose outside, the 
mm. long; capsule 
bose, 3-4 mm. broad, glabrate; seeds broadly winged. 
Type (in the U.S. National Herbarium) collected in the Sierra 
Maestra, Oriente, July, 1922, (Léon 10741). 
In the key to the species of Rondeletia in the North American 
Flora, this plant runs at once to the group Odoratae, but it is 
not closely related to any of the species placed there, or to any 
other Cuban species previously known to the writer. 
Guettarda cryptantha Standley, sp. nov. 
_Shrub, the branches grayish, the branchlets slender, densely: 
pilose with subappressed fulvous hairs; stipules 8-10 mm. long, 
