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BRITTON: CUBAN PLANTS New TO SCIENCE 89 
Eugenia havanensis Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A shrub about 2 m. high, the young twigs glabrous or slightly 
puberulent. Leaves obovate to elliptic or oval, 2.5-3.8 cm. long, 
1.5-2.3 cm. broad, rounded at the apex, acute at the base, above 
rather light green, lustrous and finely tuberculate-glandular when 
young, dark green and smooth or nearly so in age, beneath gla- 
brous, paler and finely tuberculate-glandular, the midrib promi- 
nent; flowers axillary, solitary; pedicels slender, 1-3 cm. long, 
glabrous or slightly pubescent; calyx-tube about 3 mm. long, pu- 
berulent with appressed whitish hairs, its lobes unequal, rounded- 
ovate to suborbicular, ciliolate ; petals obovate, 8 mm. long, 5-5.5 
mm. broad, ciliolate. 
On hills, Havana. Type collected at Cuabal north of Minas 
(Léon & Roca 6212). Possibly a species of Psidium. 
Eugenia varia Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A low shrub, only about 2 dm. high, some of the branches de- 
cumbent and radicant; young twigs puberulent, the older ones 
gray and glabrous. Leaves chartaceous, various in form, ovate 
to elliptic or suborbicular, 2 cm. long or less, acute, obtuse or 
rounded at the apex, mostly rounded at the base, distinctly pin- 
nately veined, the upper surface tuberculate, the petioles 1-1.5 
mm. long; flowers few or solitary, mostly in the upper axils; 
pedicels puberulent, 3 mm. long or less; calyx 1-1.2 mm. long, 
sparingly pubescent, its lobes rounded-ovate to ovate, obtuse or 
acutish at the apex, ciliate ; petals oval to suborbicular, 1.8-2 mm. . 
long, 1.7-2 mm. broad, rounded at the apex; fruit subglobose, 5 
mm. long. 
Banks, Pinar del Rio. Type collected between San Diego 
and La Palma (Léon 5158). 
Eugenia (?) Earlei Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A shrub about 2 m. high, with short terete glabrous twigs. 
Leaves elliptic or ovate-elliptic, chartaceous, 2.5-4 cm. long, 3 
cm. wide or less, distinctly pinnately veined, obtuse, rounded or 
bluntly acute at the apex, obtuse at the base, bright green, shining, 
somewhat tuberculate above and with impressed midvein, pale 
green, dull and with midvein prominent beneath, the stout petioles 
about 1 mm. long. 
Valley near Guanabana, Trinidad Mountains, Santa Clara, 
260 m. altitude (Britton, Earle & Wilson, 4771). 
