42 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLUME 32 
or obovate-oblong, 10-22 mm. long, 3.5-8 mm. wide, acute or attenuate at the base, rounded 
or very obtuse at the apex, dark-green above, lustrous, scaberulous or glabrous, the venation 
obsolete, beneath brownish, sparsely scaberulous or strigillose, the costa prominent, the lateral 
veins obsolete; peduncles stout, 3 mm. long or shorter; hypanthium 2-3 mm. long, densely whit- 
ish-strigillose; calyx about 3 mm. long, sparsely strigillose; corolla-tube 5 mm. long, glabrous 
outside, the lobes about half as long as the tube, sparsely puberulent outside; capsule 8-10 mm. 
long, 1.5-2 mm. in diameter, narrowed at the base, grayish, strigillose. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Western Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Western Cuba. 
ILLUSTRATION: Ber. Deuts. Bot. Ges. 15: pl. 9, f. 10-21. 
2. Neomazaea (?) Shaferi Standley, sp. nov. 
Pisonia inermis Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 24, in part. 1866. Not P. inermis Jacq. 1763. 
Tree, 6-9 meters high, glabrous throughout, the branches rough, grayish, the internodes 
very short; stipules small, deltoid; petioles stout, 2-4 mm. long; leaf-blades suborbicular, 
oval, or oval-oblong, 3-5.5 cm. long, 1.5-4 cm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the base, often 
abruptly short-decurrent, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, subcoriaceous, somewhat lus- 
trous, green above, the venation prominulous, brownish beneath, the costa prominent, the 
lateral veins usually 3 on each side, ascending, very irregular, the intermediate veins coarsely 
and irregularly reticulate, the margins plane or subrevolute; inflorescence axillary, racemose or 
paniculate, 3—7-flowered, short-pedunculate, much shorter than the leaves, the flowers short- 
pedicellate, the bracts linear, 1-2 mm. long; hypanthium about 1.5 mm. long; calyx minute, 
4-lobate, the lobes oval-ovate, very obtuse; corolla “‘ minute, 4-lobate, the lobes rounded, 
strongly imbricate, the filaments very short, the anthers short;” fruit elliptic, 6-7 mm. long, 
3-3.5 mm. wide, very strongly compressed, brownish-black, conspicuously costate; seeds 2 in 
each cell, linear, caudate-appendaged at each end. 
Type collected on a dry, rocky hillside, Sierra Nipe, along trail from Piedra Gorda to Woodfred, 
Oriente, Cuba, altitude 400 to 500 meters, December, 1909, J. A. Shafer 3313 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
DISTRIBUTION: Cuba. 
18. STEVENSIA Poit. Ann. Mus. Paris 4: 235. 1804. 
Shrubs, more or less pubescent, the branches terete. Stipules sheathing, produced be- 
tween the petioles as triangular lobes, the lobes obtuse, persistent. Leaves opposite, short- 
petiolate, thick-coriaceous. Flowers white, solitary in the axils, pedunculate; bractlets 2; 
calyx closed before anthesis and inclosing the corolla, ovoid-oblong, rostrate-acuminate, in 
anthesis bifid, the lobes equal or unequal, strigose within, finally deciduous; corolla salverform, 
the tube cylindric, scarcely ampliate above, glabrous within, the throat naked, the lobes 5-7, 
imbricate in bud, rounded at the apex, fleshy, spreading. Stamens 5-7, inserted in the corolla- 
throat; filaments very short; anthers dorsifixed, oblong-linear, emarginate at the base, obtuse 
at the apex, included. Style glabrous, bifid or bilobate, the lobes linear, truncate. Disk 
annular. Ovary obovoid, subcompressed, hirsute, 2-celled; ovules numerous, multiseriate, 
the placentae peltate. Capsule small, globose, the exocarp crustaceous, the endocarp subos- 
seous, loculicidally bivalvate, the valves bipartite. Seeds numerous, ovoid-oblong, reticulate, 
winged; embryo minute. 
Type species, Stevensia buxifolia Poit. 
1. Stevensia buxifolia Poit. Ann. Mus. Paris 4: 235. 1804. 
Rondeletia Poitaei Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 328. 1861. 
Shrub, 2 meters high, the branches short-pilose, resinous; leaves short-petiolate, the 
blades oval, about 2.5 cm. long, whitish-tomentulose beneath, the venation reticulate; 
hypanthium in anthesis minute; calyx about 7 mm. long; corclla-tube 8 mm. long, the lobes 
slightly shorter; anthers 2.5 mm. long; capsule 3-5 mm. in diameter, hirsutulous at the apex, 
elsewhere tomentulose. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Near La Vigie du Cap Francais, Haiti. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
gh URE ONS Ann. Mus. Paris 4: pl. 60; Gaertn. Fruct. pl. 197; Ber. Deuts. Bot. Ges. 15: pl. 
9, f. 1-9. 
