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Family ORCHIDACEAE 
Vanilla savannarum Britton, sp. nov. 
Climbing on palms; stem slender, branched, 6 m. long or 
longer. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 6-10 cm. long, 3-5 
cm. wide, bluntly acute or obtuse at the apex, rounded at the 
base, many-veined, the petioles about 5 mm. long; peduncles 
short, 4-8 cm. long, leafy-bracted; spike 6 cm. long or less, 
ame hb pei flowered; capsules sub-cylindric, sessile; 
4-5 cm. long. 
On Ps icdy savannas near Camaguey (Britton & Cowell 
13120, type) ; on Copernicia, barren savannas southeast of Hol- 
guin, Oriente (Shafer 2944); on Copernicia, savanna south of 
Sierra Cubitas, Camaguey (Shafer 1831) ; on palmetto, between 
La Gloria and Columbia, Camaguey (Shafer 615) ; on palmetto, 
Jatovieja, Cayo Sabinal, Camaguey (Shafer 1072). 
Family PIPERACEAE 
Peperomia similis Britton, sp. nov. 
Stem rather slender, creeping, sparingly branched, 4 dm. long 
or longer, about 2 mm. thick, sparingly pubescent in lines of 
curled hairs. Leaves alternate, firm in texture, orbicular-ovate, 
3 cm. long or less, glabrous or nearly so, copiously black-dotted, 
obtuse or acutish at the apex, rounded or subtruncate at the 
base, inconspicuously 5-nerved, the rather stout petioles 3-8 mm. 
long; young spikes terminal, solitary, short-peduncled, about 8 
cm. long and 2 mm. thick, the bracts rounded. 
On a rock, bank of arroyo, Sierra del Indio, San Diego de - 
Bafios, Pinar del Rio (Brothers Léon and Charles 4984). 
Peperomia cueroensis Britton, sp. nov. 
Peperomia spathophylla monteverdensis C. DC. in Urban, 
Symb. Ant. 3: 228. 1902. 
Stems stout, branched, 3 dm. long or less. Leaves thick nf 
firm, elliptic to ovate or obovate, 3-7 cm. long, obtuse or some 
of them acute at the apex, narrowed or obtuse at the base, faintly 
3-nerved, loosely pubescent when young, soon glabrous, not 
black-punctate ; spikes solitary, very long, terminal, about 25 cm. 
long, 2-2.5 mm. thick; bracts oval, distant. 
Mountains of Oriente; type collected on rocks in a ravine, 
420 m. altitude, near El Cuero, Oriente (Britton & Cowell 
I2761). 
