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Gossypiospermum eriophorum Urban, Repert. Sp. Nov. 19: 7. 



1923. 

 Distribution: Cuba: South America. 



5. Casearia tremula Griseb.; Sauv. Anal. Acad. Ci. Hab. 5: 

 201. 1868. 



Ziielania tremula Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 9. 1866. 

 Casearia spiralis ]o\ins>ton,V roc. Ava. AcQ.d. 40: 691. 1905. 

 Casearia honariensis ^o\d\ngh, ¥\. Y^utchW . I. 2: 68. 1914. 

 Laetia glabra Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. 6: 369. 1916. 

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

 Distribution: Cuba, Curacao, Aruba, Bonaire, Margarita; 



southern^ Mexico, Columbia and Venezuela. 

 Illustration: Boldingh, Fl. Dutch W. I. 2: pi. 8. 



6. Myroxylon clarense (Urban) P. Wilson, comb. nov. 

 Xylosma clarense Urban, Repert. Sp. Nov. 22. 89. 1925. 

 Distribution: Cuba. 



7. Myroxylon Dussii (Urban) P. Wilson, comb. nov. 

 Xylosma Dussii Urban, Repert. Sp. Nov. 22: 89. 1925. 

 Distribution : Guadeloupe. 



8. Myroxylon Shaferi P. Wilson, sp. nov. 



A shrub about 2.4 m. high, the young twigs brown, puberu- 

 lent with spreading hairs, the branches gray; petioles about 

 0.5 mm. long; leaf-blades elliptic or somewhat obovate, 2-5 mm. 

 long, 1-3.5 mm. broad, rounded or obtuse at the apex, acute 

 or occasionally somewhat rounded at the base, coriaceous, glab- 

 rous; primary veins indistinct above, rather prominent beneath ; 

 flowers and fruit unknown. 



Type collected at Pena Blanca and vicinity, Pinar del Rio, 

 Cuba, /. A. Shafer 13879 (Herb. N. Y. Bot. Garden). 



New York Botanical Garden 



