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BRITTON: CUBAN PLANTS NEW TO SCIENCE 95 
‘ovoid-globose, 8 mm. long; seeds oblong, with long brown hairs. 
Hillsides, northwestern Oriente. Type from Loma Pilon, in 
eruptive mountains near Holguin (Shafer 1235). 
Family HYDROPHYLLACEAE 
Nama cubana P. Wilson, sp. nov. 
A spiny shrub 2-3.5 dm. tall, with puberulent twigs. Leaves 
obovate or somewhat obovate-spatulate, 1-2.5 cm. long, 3-6 mm. 
broad, glabrous or nearly so, rounded or acutish at the apex, 
cuneate at the base, short-petioled; sepals ovate, 5-7 mm. long, 
3-5-5 mm. broad, acute or rounded at the apex, glabrous; capsule 
subglobose, 3-3.5 mm. long, glabrous; styles mostly 3, shorter 
than the sepals. 
In mud, Columbia, Camaguey Shair 610). 
Family CORDIACEAE 
Varronia Shaferi Britton, sp. nov. 
Shrub-like, branched, the twigs, petioles and peduncles ap- 
pressed-pubescent, scabrous. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 
coriaceous, entire, 8 cm. long or less, 2-4 cm. wide, acute or 
acuminate at the apex, narrowed and acute at the base, shining 
and glabrous or nearly so above, short-pubescent beneath, the 
veins impressed above, prominent beneath, the rather stout pe- 
tioles 1-2 cm. long; peduncles terminal, rather stout, 5-8 cm. 
long; flowers densely short-spicate; spikes 1.5-3 cm. long, about 
I cm. thick; calyx strigose, about 6 mm. long, its triangular lobes 
tapering into a linear, caudate tip; corolla 3.5-4 mm. long, white, 
a little longer than the calyx-tube, its lobes short, rounded ; fruit 
oval, about 7 mm. long. 
Moist woods between Navas and Camp Buena Vista, Oriente, 
at 650 meters altitude (Shafer 4448). 
Bourreria Taylori Britton, sp. nov. 
A tree, 5-8 m. high, the young twigs and inflorescence loosely 
pilose. Leaves spatulate-oblanceolate, subcoriaceous, 3-7 cm. 
long, 2 cm. wide or less, obtuse or rounded at the apex, cuneate 
at the base, smooth, glabrous and reticulate-veined above, spar- 
ingly pilose beneath, the petioles 2-4 mm. long; inflorescence 
paniculate, several-flowered; calyx oblong-campanulate, densely 
pilose, about 6 mm. long, its teeth triangular, acute; styles united 
to above the middle, stout ; fruit en ig globose, about 8 mm. 
in diameter. 
