BriTTON: CuBAN PLANTS NEw To SCIENCE 61 
Family ORCHIDACEAE 
Vanilla savannarum Britton, sp. nov. 
Climbing on palms; stem slender, branched, 6 m. long or 
longer. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 6-10 cm. long, 3-5 
cm. wide, bluntly acute or obtuse at the apex, rounded at the 
base, many-veined, the petioles about 5 mm. long; peduncles 
short, 4-8 cm. long, leafy-bracted; spike 6 cm. long or less, 
densely several—-many-flowered; capsules sub-cylindric, sessile, 
4-5 cm. long. 
On Copernicia, savannas near Camaguey (Britton & Cowell 
13120, type); on Copernicia, barren savannas southeast of Hol- 
guin, Oriente (Shafer 2944); on Copernicia, savanna south of 
Sierra Cubitas, Camaguey (Shafer 1831); on palmetto, between 
La Gloria and Columbia, Camaguey (Shafer 615) ; on palmetto, 
Jatovieja, Cayo Sabinal, Camaguey (Shafer 1072). 
Family PIPERACEAE 
Peperomia similis Britton, sp. nov. 
Stem rather slender, creeping, sparingly branched, 4 dm. long 
or longer, about 2 mm. thick, sparingly pubescent in lines of 
curled hairs. Leaves alternate, firm in texture, orbicular-ovate, 
3 cm. long or less, glabrous or nearly so, copiously black-dotted, 
obtuse or acutish at the apex, rounded or subtruncate at the 
base, inconspicuously 5-nerved, the rather stout petioles 3~8 mm. 
long; young spikes terminal, solitary, short-peduncled, about 8 
cm. long and 2 mm. thick, the bracts rounded. 
On a rock, bank of arroyo, Sierra del Indio, San Diego de los 
Baños, Pinar del Rio (Brothers Léon and Charles 4984). 
Peperomia cueroensis Britton, sp. nov. 
Peperomia spathophylla monteverdensis C. DC. in Urban, 
Symb. Ant. 3: 228. 1902. 
Stems stout, branched, 3 dm. long or less. Leaves thick and 
firm, elliptic to ovate or obovate, 3-7 cm. long, obtuse or some 
of them acute at the apex, narrowed or obtuse at the base, faintly 
3-nerved, loosely pubescent when young, soon glabrous, not 
black-punctate ; spikes solitary, very long, terminal, about 25 cm. 
long, 2-2.5 mm. thick ; bracts oval, distant. 
Mountains of Oriente; type collected on rocks in a ravine, 
420 m. altitude, near El Cuero, Oriente (Britton & Cowell 
12761). 
