BRITTON: CUBAN PLANTS New To SCIENCE 59 
pairs, crowded towards the summit, only one developed in the 
lower pairs, the other rudimentary or wanting; spikelets about 
twice as long as the pedicel, elliptic, 1.6-1.8 mm. long, 1 mm. 
wide, more or less crimson; second glume and sterile lemma sub- 
equal, with some spreading hairs near the margin, otherwise gla- 
brous; fruit pale, somewhat exceeding the second glume at ma- 
turity ; palea somewhat papillose-roughened. 
Palm barren, sabana de Motembo, Santa Clara (Léon & Roca 
8164). The type specimen is preserved in the Colegio De La 
Salle Herbarium, Vedado, Havana. 
Family CYPERACEAE 
Cyperus camagueyensis Britton, sp. nov. 
Perennial; culms tufted, slender, smooth, trigonous, erect, 
3-6 dm. high. Basal leaves much shorter than the culm, I-1.5 
dm, long, 3 mm. wide or less, those of the involucre several, the 
longer ones much surpassing the simple, several-rayed umbel; 
umbel-rays very slender, 5 cm. long or less; spikelets loosely 
spicate, 1.5-3 cm. long, flat, many-flowered, the rachis angular, 
wingless, persistent after the scales have fallen; scales oblong- 
lanceolate, brown, appressed, acute, I.5 mm. long; stamens 2 or 
3; style-branches 2, filiform; achenes oblong, grey, smooth, apicu- 
late, 0.75 mm. long, nearly 0.5 mm. thick, persistent. 
Vicinity of La Gloria, Camaguey (Shafer 196). 
Cyperus Underwoodii Britton, sp. nov. 
Culms densely tufted, slender but rigid, erect, arching or re- 
curved, 1—4 dm. long. Basal leaves 1-5 cm. long, or reduced to 
sheaths, those of the involucre 1-3, the longest about 7 cm. long 
or shorter, sometimes only 1 cm. long or less; spikelets few or 
several in a dense terminal cluster, nearly terete, 5-10 mm. long, 
few-flowered; scales brown, striate, oval, obtusish, appressed, 
about 2 mm. long; achene linear-oblong, trigonous, apiculate, 2 
mm. long, about 0.5 mm. thick. 
Dry soil, vicinity of Santiago, Oriente (Underwood 1694). 
Eleocharis Shaferi Britton, sp. nov. 
Perennial; culms capillary, weak, densely tufted, about 2 
dm. long; upper sheath apparently not scarious; spikelet oblong, 
4-5 mm. long, I-1.5 mm. thick, acute, few-flowered ; scales pale, 
appressed, obtuse or obtusish, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, ap- 
pressed, the lower one 2-2.5 mm. long, shorter than the upper 
