Britton: Stupies or West INDIAN PLANTs—XI 49 
Type collected on Loma del Gato, Cobre Range of Sierra 
Maestra, Oriente, altitude 900-1000 meters (Léon, Clement and 
Roca 10301; herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden). 
Guettarda cobrensis Standley, sp. nov. 
Shrub 3 meters high, the branches dark reddish brown, the 
branchlets thick, densely covered with minute appressed fulvous 
airs, the internodes short; stipules oblong-ovate, 4 mm. long 
or more, acuminate, thin, brown, pubescent like the branchlets 
and with few long subappressed hairs; leaves opposite, the 
petioles stout, 4-6 mm. long, minutely and densely appressed- 
pilose, the blades oval or broadly oval, 3-6 cm. long, 2-4.5 cm. 
wide, rounded at apex, deeply cordate at base, thick-coriaceous, 
yellowish-green, concolorous, often somewhat bullate, glabrous 
above, the venation depressed, beneath bearing a few short 
appressed hairs along the coarse prominent costa, but elsewhere 
glabrous, the lateral veins stout and prominent, 5 or 6 on ea 
side, subarcuate, ascending at an angle of 45-60°, the intermediate 
veins inconspicuous, the margin subrevolute; peduncles about 1 
cm. long, pubescent like the branchlets, the flowers usually 3, 
sessile; fruit globose, I cm. in diameter, minutely tomentulose. 
Type collected at edge of woods, Loma del Gato, Cobre Range 
of Sierra Maestra, Oriente, altitude 800 meters (Léon, Clement 
and Roca 10271; herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden). 
Related to G. crassipes Britton, in which the leaves are densely 
long-pilose beneath along the costa. > 
