78 BriTTON: CuBAN PLANTS NEW TO SCIENCE 
‘neath; midrib impressed above, prominent beneath; racemes 
stout, 3.5-4 cm. long, many-flowered, erect, glabrous; bracts nar- 
rowly lanceolate, 1.5 mm. long; pedicels 2.5—-3 mm. long; calyx- 
lobes ovate-lanceolate, short-acuminate ; petals elliptic or elliptic- 
ovate, 3-3.2 mm. long, 1.2 mm. broad, acute; stamens about half 
‘as long as the petals; ovary glabrous. 
Mountains of Oriente (Shafer 4140, type; 41009, 4060). 
Family ILICACEAE 
Ilex Shaferi Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
- A small shrub, 1-3 m. high, with grayish branches and pu- 
berulent twigs. Leaves obovate, 0.6-1.4 cm. long, 0.5-0.8 cm. 
broad, with entire revolute margins, rounded and often emargi- 
nate at the apex, cuneate at the base, short-petioled, glabrous, 
shining and obscurely veined above, paler, tustrous and obscurely 
veined beneath; fruit subglobose, solitary in the axils of the 
leaves, 6-7 mm. long, 5—7 mm. in diameter, dark red. 
Mountains of Oriente (Shafer 8041, type; 4065 and 4126). 
Ilex Clementis Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A shrub several meters high. Leaves elliptic to ovate-oval or 
somewhat obovate, 4.5-9 cm. long, 2.5-5 cm. broad, rounded or 
acutish and usually. apiculate at the apex, cuneate or rounded at 
the base, entire, glabrous, dull above, the midvein impressed, 
reticulate-veined and paler beneath; pedicels minutely puberulent, 
3-5 mm. long; staminate flowers fascicled in the axils of the 
leaves; sepals 4, suborbicular, 1.5-2 mm. broad, strongly imbri- 
cate, ciliate ; corolla lobes 4, elliptic to oval, 2-2.2 mm. long; fruit 
unknown, 
Mountains of Santa Clara (Brothers Léon and Clement 
6645, type; 6558, 6669 and 6694). 
Family HIPPOCRATEACEAE 
Salacia (?) nipensis Britton, sp. nov. 
A woody vine, sometimes 3 m. long, the twigs warty. Leaves 
coriaceous, glabrous, entire, elongate-lanceolate, 6-18 cm. long, 
1.5=4 cm. wide, obtuse at the apex, cordate at the base, pinnately 
veined, the midvein prominent, the lateral venation obscure; pe 
tioles stout, only 2 mm. long; fruit oblong, obtuse, slightly nat- 
rowed towards the base, about 4 cm. long and 1.5 cm. in diameter, 
scurfy ; sepals persistent, suborbicular, about 3 mm. broad. 
