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5. Castelaria jacquiniifolia Small, sp. nov. 



A diffuse shrub with puberulent branches and branching thorns. Leaf-blades obovate 

 to cuneate, 1-3 cm. long, very thick, rounded or truncate and mucronate at the apex, strongly 

 revolute, bright-green and shining above, dull beneath, veiny on both sides, stout-petioled ; 

 flowers short-pedicelled ; sepals broadly deltoid, ciliolate, otherwise glabrous ; petals ovate 

 or oblong-ovate, red, about 3 mm. long ; drupes not seen. 



Type collected on coastal cliffs, Leeward Point, Guantanamo Bay, Oriente, Cuba, March 17-30, 

 1909, N. L. Brilton 2198 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Card.). 



6. Castelaria erecta (Turpin) Small. 



Caste/a erecta Turpin, Ann. Mus. Paris 7 : 80. 1806. 



A much-branched shrub with glabrous or nearly glabrous branches and branching thorns. 

 Leaf-blades oblong, elliptic, or oblong-obovate, 1-2.5 cm. long, thinnish, acute or abruptly 

 pointed, nearly flat, finely pubescent, but somewhat shining, veiny, slender-petioled or 

 nearly sessile ; sepals deltoid, finely pubescent ; petals white becoming red ; drupes red, 

 turgid, fully 1 cm. long, finely reticulate. 



Type locality : Santo Domingo. 



Distribution : Santo Domingo and eastern Cuba. 



Illustration : Ann. Mus. Paris 7 : pi. 5, B. 



7. Castelaria Brittonii Small, sp. nov. 



A small tree with rough bark and much-branched pale branches, the twigs puberulent. 

 Leaf-blades oblong, varying to oblanceolate, 1-2.5 cm. long, acute, thin-margined, shining 

 especially above, veiny on both sides, the midrib beneath and the petiole with appressed 

 hairs ; flowers nearly sessile ; sepals ovate, finely pubescent ; petals not seen ; drupes not 

 seen. 



Type collected on coastal hills, Guantanamo Bay, Oriente, Cuba, March 17-30, 1909, N. L, 

 Brilton 2257 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 



Distribution : Oriente and Santa Clara, Cuba. 



8. Castelaria macrophylla (Urban) Small. 



Caslela macrophylla Urban, Symb. Ant. 5 : 377. 1908. 



A straggling often much-branched shrub with green or greenish puberulent branchlets 

 and twigs. Leaf-blades oblong or elliptic, varying to broadest above the middle or below 

 it, often acute at both ends, gland-tipped, veiny beneath and 1-3 cm. long on flowering 

 and fruiting branches, less veiny, rounded, and mucronate and larger on shoots, all thick- 

 margined, decidedly petioled, the midrib beneath and the petiole with spreading hairs ; 

 flowers short-pedicelled ; sepals ovate or triangular, finely pubescent ; petals pink or red, 

 oblong to obovate, about 3 mm. long ; drupes red, much flattened, 12-15 mm. long, 

 reticulate. 



Type locality : Long Mountain, Jamaica. 

 Distribution : Jamaica. 



Doubtful species 

 Caste/a lychnophoroides Liebm. Vedensk. Meddel. 1853: 111. 1854. Mexico. 

 Castela retusa Liebm. Vedensk. Meddel. 1853 : 110. 1854. Mexico. 



6. HOLACANTHA A. Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. II. 5 : 310. 1854. 



Shrubs with almost leafless branches, bitter wood and alternate, stiff, thorn-like branch- 

 lets. Leaves alternate, deciduous, reduced to mere scales on mature plants. Flowers 

 dioecious, solitary or glomerate on spinescent branchlets. Sepals 7 or 8, short and broad. 

 Petals 7 or 8, imbricate in the bud, much longer than the sepals. Stamens 12-16 in the 

 sterile flowers, and with small imperfect anthers in the fertile ; filaments subulate ; anthers 

 decidedly longer than wide. Disk annular, crenulate. Carpels 6-10, the bodies lightly 

 cohering. Styles 6-10, short, divergent, terminal ; stigmas subulate, introrse, curved. 

 Drupes dryish, stellately divergent. Seed turgid. 



Type species, Holacantha Emoryi A. Gray. 



