10 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLUME 32 
nate, 1 cm. long, 0.7 em. wide, compressed, obscurely costate, truncate at the apex, dark-brown, 
glabrous, the persistent calyx-lobes triangular, acute, 1.2-2 cm. long; seeds few, flat, irregular 
in outline, about 3 mm. long, dark-brown, finely reticulate. 
Type collected on compact red soil, Rio Yamaniguey to Camp Toa, Oriente, Cuba, altitude 
400 meters, February, 1910, J. A. Shafer 4180 (U.S. Nat. Herb. no. 793795). 
5. Portlandia involucrata Wernham, Jour. Bot. 51: 320. 1913. 
Shrub, 0.3—2 meters high, glabrous throughout, the branches gray, the branchlets brownish, 
striate, the internodes very short; stipules minute, acute; leaves opposite or ternate, the petioles 
stout, 13 mm. long or less, semiterete, the blades obovate or obovate-elliptic, 2.5-6.5 em. long, 
0.7-2.5 em. wide, rounded at the apex, cuneately narrowed to the base, thick-coriaceous, 
lustrous, paler beneath, the margins revolute, the costa evident beneath, the veins obsolete; 
flowers terminal, solitary, sessile, surrounded at the base by an involucre of numerous foli- 
aceous bracts; capsule ellipsoid, 1 cm. long, 0.7—0.8 cm. wide, black, truncate at the apex, the 
persistent calyx-lobes linear-oblong, obtuse, 1 cm. long; seeds few, flat, 2.5-3 mm. long, dark- 
brown, finely reticulate. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Camp La Gloria, across Sierra Moa, to Moa Bay, Oriente, Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Oriente, Cuba. 
6. Portlandia uliginosa Wernham, Jour. Bot. 51: 320. 1913. 
Shrub, 3 meters high, the branches slender, dark-gray, the branchlets terete, puberulent, 
resinous, the internodes elongate; stipules annular, scarcely 1 mm. long, resinous; petioles 
stout, 2-4.5 mm. long, semiterete, puberulent or glabrate; leaf-blades obovate, oval, or oval- 
oblong, 1.5—3 cm. long, 0.7-1.5 cm. wide, rounded at the apex, acute or obtuse at the base, 
thick-coriaceous, glabrous, lustrous on the upper surface, paler and dull beneath, the margin 
subrevolute, the costa prominent beneath, the veins obsolete; pedicels 1 em. long, obscurely 
puberulent; capsule 1.5 cm. long, 6 mm. wide, attenuate at the base, obscurely costate, glabrous, 
the persistent calyx-lobes subulate, acutish, 1 cm. long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Rio Yamaniguey to Camp Toa, Oriente, Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
7. Portlandia elliptica Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 41: 22. 1914. 
Slender shrub, 3.3 meters high, the branchlets obtusely triangular, brownish-gray, puberu- 
lent, the internodes short; stipules annular, truncate, 1 mm. long, puberulent, resinous; petioles 
stout, 0.3-1 cm. long, semiterete, canaliculate above, puberulent; leaf-blades oval-elliptic to 
rounded-oval, 3-8 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, rounded at the apex, acute or obtuse at the base, 
thick-coriaceous, lustrous, glabrous above, slightly paler beneath and glabrous or sparsely 
puberulent, the margins subrevolute, the costa stout, prominent beneath, the lateral veins 
obsolete or nearly so; flowers terminal or axillary, mostly solitary, the pedicels stout, 0.5—-1 cm. 
long, puberulent; hypanthium 4 mm. long; calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, acute or acutish, 
longer than the hypanthium; corolla 2 cm. long, ochroleucous; capsule obovoid, about 1 cm. 
long and 0.7 cm. wide, acute at the base, slightly narrowed to the truncate apex, slightly com- 
pressed, obscurely costate, dark-brown, puberulent; seeds dark-brown, flat, 2-3 mm. long, 
finely reticulate. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Thickets on serpentine rocks, between Baracoa and Florida, Oriente, Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
8. Portlandia Ghiesbreghtiana Baill. Adansonia 12: 300. 1879. 
Shrub, glabrous throughout, the branches green or blackish, stout or slender, erect or 
pendent, the branchlets green, somewhat resinous, the internodes short; stipules broadly tri- 
angular, 2 mm. long, acute or cuspidate, green, resinous; petioles stout, 2-3 mm. long; leaf- 
blades elliptic or oval-elliptic, 1.7—4.5 cm. long, 0.8-2 cm. wide, acute or acutish at the apex, 
acute at the base, coriaceous, lustrous above, slightly paler and dull beneath, the margins 
thickened, plane, the costa subprominent, the veins obsolete; flowers axillary, numerous, the 
