72 BriTTON: Cusan PLANTS NEw TO SCIENCE 
In dry rocky places, La Guira, north of Sumidero, Pinar del 
Rio (Shafer 13751). 
Family MALPIGHIACEAE 
Bunchosia Leonis Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
Shrub 1 m. tall, with grayish-brown twigs. Leaves obovate, 
I-3.2 cm. long, rounded and emarginate at the apex, cuneate at 
the base, coriaceous, lustrous above, dull beneath, glabrous in 
age, short-petioled; flowering pedicels pubescent; corolla about 
I-1I.3 cm. broad; sepals ovate, 2.5 mm. long, ciliate, the ie 
one-half the length of the sepal body; larger petals 5-5.5 m 
long, the blades suborbicular, toothed; ovary and style eae 
drupes 1.6-2 cm. 
Type collected in coastal thicket, Playa del Chivo, Havana 
(Léon 7214). 
Family EUPHORBIACEAE 
Andrachne (?) cuneifolia Britton, sp. nov. 
A glabrous shrub 1-2 m. high, with slender elongated leafy 
branches. Leaves obovate, cuneate, 5-12 mm. long, rounded at 
the apex, delicately pinnately veined, dark green and shining 
above, pale green and dull beneath, the petiole about 1 mm. long; 
stipules minute; fruiting pedicels about 14 mm. long, the six per- 
sistent oblong sepals about I mm. long. 
Punta Maisi, Oriente: southern and southwestern Porto Rico. 
Type from a dry hillside, Coamo Springs, Porto Rico (Under- 
wood & Griggs 545). 
RAMSDENIA Britton, gen. nov. 
Monoecious shrubs, with flattened branches, distichous, emar- 
ginate, orbicular or obovate leaves, or those of primary branches 
reduced to scales, the apetalous flowers solitary or 2 together in 
the axils, the pistillate few. Sepals 5, coriaceous. Stamens 5, 
the filaments connate, the anthers extrorse. Styles several-cleft. 
[In honor of Charles T. Ramsden, distinguished Cuban zoologist. ] 
Type species: Phyllanthus excisus Urban. 
Ramsdenia excisa (Urban) Britton, comb. nov. 
Phyllanthus excisus Urban, Repertorium 13: 449. 1914. 
