Part 1, 1918] RUBIACEAE 9 
Capsule turbinate, truncate at the apex, the pedicel 
2-3 cm. long. 16. P. daphnoides, 
Capsule oval-elliptic, narrowed at the apex, the 
pedicel 0.5-0.8 cm. long. 17. P. domingensis. 
1. Portlandia Harrisii Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 39: 8. 1912. 
Shrub or small tree, up to 6 meters high, glabrous throughout; branches grayish, the 
branchlets very stout, obtusely quadrangular, the internodes short, the leaves often crowded; 
stipules distinct, 1.5 cm. long, ovate-orbicular, thick-coriaceous, acute or abruptly acute or 
acuminate, conspicuously nerved; leaves sessile, the blades orbicular or nearly so, 8-14 or 
rarely only 4.5 cm. long, broadly rounded or truncate at the apex, deeply cordate and clasping 
at the base, thick-coriaceous, lustrous, the costa very stout and prominent, the lateral veins 
slender but salient, 8—10 on each side, ascending at an acute angle, nearly straight, laxly anasto- 
mosing near the margin, the veinlets prominent, coarsely reticulate; flowers crowded in the 
axils, on stout pedicels about 1 cm. long, ebracteate; hypanthium 6 mm. long; calyx-lobes 
lance-oblong, about 15 mm. long and 5 mm. wide, acute to attenuate, claret-colored; corolla 
about 9 cm. long, the limb 3.5 cm. wide, white, tinged with rose, the tube about 1.2 cm. long, 
the lobes triangular, 1.5 cm. long, the tips reflexed; filaments pubescent below; anthers linear, 
yellow, about 2 cm. long; capsule oval or obovoid, 2.5 cm. long, 1.8 cm. wide, compressed, 
very obscurely angulate, brownish-black; seeds reddish-brown. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Peckham Woods, Upper Clarendon, Jamaica. 
DISTRIBUTION: On limestone rocks, vicinity of the type locality. 
2. Portlandia nitens Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 39: 10. 1912. 
Slender shrub, 2.5-3 meters high, the branches stout, dark-gray, the internodes short; 
leaves sessile, the blades rounded-oval to oval-oblong, 4—9.5 cm. long, 3-7 cm. wide, rounded at 
the apex, cordate or subcordate at the base, thick-coriaceous, lustrous above, dull beneath, 
inconspicously veined; flowers corymbose, the pedicels stout, 1 cm. long or shorter, resinous; 
hypanthium resinous; calyx-lobes linear, 8-11 mm. long; corolla pink, campanulate, 2.5 em. 
long, the lobes short, rounded; capsule obovoid-oblong, 1.3 cm. long, dark-brown. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Dry thicket, upper valley of the Rio Navas, Oriente, Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Oriente, Cuba. 
3. Portlandia sessilifolia Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 41: 21. 1914. 
Branched shrub, 2-12 dm. high, the branches brownish-gray, resinous, the branchlets 
stout, obtusely quadrangular, puberulent and covered with yellow resin, the internodes short; 
stipules annular, 1-1.5 mm. long, truncate, resinous; leaves sessile, the blades orbicular, 1.5—3 
em. long, broadly rounded at the apex, truncate or subcordate at the base, lustrous above and 
pustulate-scaberulous, puberulent and very resinous beneath, the margins thick, revolute, the 
costa evident beneath, the lateral veins obsolete; inflorescence terminal, sessile, subcapitate, 
several-flowered, the pedicels very short; hypanthium about 4 mm. long, very resinous; calyx- 
lobes linear, as long as the hypanthium; corolla tubular-campanulate, 1.5 cm. long, yellow; 
capsule oblong-obovoid, 5-6 mm. long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Camp La Gloria, south of Sierra Moa, Oriente, Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Oriente, Cuba. 
4. Portlandia Shaferi Standley, sp. nov. 
Shrub, the branches brownish-gray, the branchlets compressed, glabrous, the internodes 
elongate; stipules annular, truncate, 1.5mm. long, minutely puberulent; leaves sessile, the blades 
oval-oblong, or the uppermost oval-orbicular, slightly broadest near the base, 3.5—11 cm. long, 
3-5 cm. wide, rounded at the apex, subcordate at the base, thick-coriaceous, very lustrous on 
the upper surface and glabrous, slightly paler beneath, dull, glabrous, or minutely puberulent 
near the base, the margins slightly revolute, the costa stout, prominent beneath, the lateral 
veins obscure; inflorescence terminal, capitate, many-flowered, the flowers sessile; corolla 
narrowly campanulate, 2 cm. long, the lobes short, obtuse or acutish; capsule obovoid-turbi- 
