Notes on Flacourtiaceae I 



Percy Wilson 



1. Samyda Lunana P. Wilson, sp. nov. 



A shrub with appressed pubescent twigs, the older branches 

 grayish or grayish-brown; petioles 2-3 mm. long; leaves obovate 

 or elliptic, 1.5-2.8 cm. long, 0.8-1.2 cm. broad, rounded and 

 sometimes emarginate at the apex, acute atthe base, glabrous 

 above, the surface roughened by elevated glands, appressed- 

 pubescent on the midvein beneath, crenulate; flowers mostly 

 solitary in the axils of the leaves; calyx-lobes oblong-elliptic, 

 6 mm. long, the tube 4.5 mm. long, mostly appressed-pubescent. 



Type collected on Lomas de Banao, Santa Clara, Cuba, A. 

 Luna 859 (Herb. N. Y. Botanical Garden). 



2. Samyda cubensis P. Wilson, sp. nov. 



A shrub with ferruginous-pubescent twigs, the hairs spread- 

 ing; petioles 2-3 mm. long; leaf-blades oblong-elliptic to elliptic, 

 1.5-4.5 cm. long, rounded or obtuse and sometimes emarginate 

 at the apex, obtuse or somewhat inequilaterally rounded at the 

 base, nearly glabrous on both surfaces, crenulate-serrulate or 

 nearly entire; flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves; calyx- 

 lobes oblong, 5 mm. long, 2.5-3 mm. broad, obtuse at the apex, 

 pubescent; stamens 10, the staminal-tube united nearly to the 

 apex; anthers ovate, 1 mm. long; ovary ovoid, compressed, 

 pubescent; style 4 mm. long; stigma capitate. Type collected 

 in Cuba, Charles Wright US96 (Herb. N. Y. Bot. Garden). In 

 the Gray Herbarium this number is represented by Samyda 

 dodecandra Jacq. 



3. Samyda macrantha P. Wilson, nom. nov. 



Samyda grand iflora''^Gnseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 11. 1866. Not S. 



grandiflora Spreng. 1825. 

 Distribution: Cuba and Isle of Pines. 



4. Gossypiospermum praecox (Griseb.) P. Wilson, comb, 

 nov. 



Casearia praecox Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 10. 1866. 



Casearia eriophora C. Wright; Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 11. 1866. 



Guidonia Rosaiiriana Maza, Dice. Bot. 11. 1889. 



Guidonia praecox Maza, Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 23 : 56. 1894. 



Guidonia eriophora Maza, Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 23: 56. 



1894. 

 Anipelocera creniilata Urban, Repert. Sp. Nov. 15: 399. 1919. 



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