96 BRITTON: CUBAN PLANTS New To SCIENCE 
Sevilla Estate, near Santiago, Oriente, at 260 m. elevation 
(Taylor 431). 
Rochefortia stellata Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A tree, 5 m. high, with grayish, flexuose branches and puberu- 
lent spiny twigs. Leaves elliptic, subcoriaceous, brittle, 1.5-2.8 
cm. long, 1.2-1.8 cm. wide, rounded and occasionally slightly. 
emarginate at the apex, rounded at the base, short-petioled, lus- 
trous and glabrous or with few scattered stellate hairs above, 
densely puberulent beneath with grayish, stellate hairs; flowers 
solitary or several, axillary, short-pedicelled; calyx densely stel- 
late-tomentulose, the lobes triangular-ovate; corolla-tube short, 
the lobes elliptic-ovate to elliptic, 4 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, cilio- 
late; ovary glabrous, the styles separate to near the base, pubes- 
cent; young fruit subglobose, 6 mm. in diameter, glabrous. 
Coastal thicket, Ensenada Cabanita, Oriente (Britton & Co- 
well 12634): 
Rochefortia cubensis Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
_A shrub with brownish-gray, puberulent, spiny twigs. Leaves 
elliptic, chartaceous, 6-9 mm. long, 3-6 mm. wide, rounded at 
both ends, the base occasionally somewhat inequilateral, pubes- 
cent above with simple, scattered, appressed hairs, glabrous or 
nearly so beneath, short-petioled; calyx-lobes ovate, ciliate, 2.5 
mm. long ; fruit subglobose, 4.5 mm. in diameter, yellowish-red. 
Thicket east of Playa de Marianao (Léon 7228). 
Family VERBENACEAE 
Duranta arida Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A strict shrub, 1-3 m. high, the slender twigs and branches of 
the inflorescence puberulent. Leaves obovate to elliptic or oval, 
0.6-1.5 cm. long, 0.5-0.9 cm. wide, acute or rounded at the apex, 
cuneate or obtuse at the base, entire or minutely and sparingly 
denticulate above the middle, dark green, glabrous and incon- 
spicuously veined above, paler and glabrous beneath, the lateral 
veins three or four on each side of the midvein; petioles 1-2 mm. 
long, slender; fruit subglobose, 5 mm. in diameter, on pedicels I 
mm. long. 
Thickets, Sabana to Maisi, Otiente (Shafer 7904, type; 7911). 
veerra Shaferi Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A shrub up to 3.3 m. high, the twigs, petioles, under bag 
surfaces and inflorescence densely white stellate-scurfy. Leaves 
