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oblong, oblong-lanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, chartaceous, 3-8 
cm. long, I-3 cm. wide, entire or very nearly so, acute, obtuse or 
rounded at the apex, obtuse, subtruncate or narrowed at the base, 
dark green, finely reticulate-veined and glabrous above, strongly 
reticulate-veined beneath, the slender petioles 5-12 mm. long; 
cymes small, peduncled, much shorter than the leaves; pedicels 
very short ; calyx obconic, white stellate-scurfy, 1.5 mm. wide, the 
lobes very short, broadly triangular; corolla pink, 3-3.5 mm. long, 
the lobes oval, rounded at the apex; filaments filiform, exserted ; 
fruit subglobose, scurfy, blue, 3.5-4 mm. in diameter. 
Limestone hills and plains, Pinar del Rio and Isle of Pines. 
Type from limestone hills, vicinity of Sumidero, Pinar del Rio 
(Shafer 13526). 
Callicarpa Wrightii Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A shrub, 6-12 dm. high, the twigs, petioles and inflorescence 
densely brown stellate-scurfy. Leaves obovate to elliptic or 
oblong, membranous, 7-12 cm. long, 1.5-5 cm. wide, crenate- 
serrate at least above the middle, acuminate at the apex, cuneate 
at the base, dark green, glabrous and inconspicuously veined 
above, green, sparingly stellate on the principal veins, lightly 
reticulate-veined and copiously resinous-dotted beneath, the pe- 
tioles 5-9 mm. long; cymes few-flowered, short-peduncled, much 
shorter than the leaves, sometimes not longer than the petioles; 
fruit greenish, about 5 mm. in diameter, on poen about 1.5 
mm 
Valleys and hillsides, northern Oriente. Type from Moa 
Bay, east of Rio Moa (Shafer 83084). 
Callicarpa cuneifolia Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A shrub up to 2 m. high, the twigs, petioles, under leaf- 
surfaces and branches of the inflorescence densely stellate- 
pubescent with ferruginous hairs. Leaves obovate or elliptic, 
chartaceous, 4-7 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, crenulate, acute or 
acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, dark-green and some- 
what scabrous above, the midvein strongly impressed, reticulate- 
veined and finely glandular beneath, the petioles about 6 mm. 
long; cymes small, peduncled, shorter than the leaves; pedicels 
1.5-2 mm. long; calyx 3 mm. broad; fruit subglobose, 4 mm. in 
diameter, puberulent when young, glandular. 
Hillsides and pine woods, northern Oriente. Type from a 
dry serpentine hill, Loma Santa Teresa, near El Yunque (Shafer 
7741). 
