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long, mostly obtuse at the apex, rounded or subcordate at the 
base, revolute-margined, very short-petioled, when young thin, 
densely puberulent above, white-tomentulose and_ black-dotted 
beneath, when old coriaceous, glabrous and shining with the veins 
deeply impressed above, dull, glabrate, with the veins very promi- 
nent beneath; flowers axillary or lateral on rather stout pubes- 
cent peduncles, 1.5—3 cm. long, 2-bracted at the summit, the bracts 
ovate-oblong, 4 mm. long, deciduous; calyx densely white-tomen- 
tulose and black-dotted, 6mm. long, open in the bud; petals white, 
somewhat longer than the calyx; ovary 2-celled; fruit ellipsoid, 
about I cm. long, the calyx persistent. 
Palm barrens, Camaguey, Santa Clara. Type from Santa 
Clara (Britton & Cowell 13328). ° 
Psidium (?) ophiticola Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A shrub, about 2 dm. high, the twigs densely tomentulose, 
terete. Leaves mostly elliptic, coriaceous, 4 cm. long or less, 
rounded or retuse at the apex, rounded or obtuse at the base, 
obsoletely veined and glabrous above when old, densely whitish- 
tomentulose and with pinnate venation beneath, the short stout 
petioles 1-2 mm. long; flowers solitary in the upper axils ; 
peduncles slender, puberulent, 2-4 cm. long; calyx-lobes elliptic 
to ovate, 4 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, tomentose; petals oval, 6 mm. 
long, 4.5 mm. broad. 
Dry rocky soil, serpentine hills near mouth of the Rio Yamani- 
guey, Oriente (Shafer 4278). 
Psidium saxicola Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A shrub, I m. high, with terete, nearly erect, densely short- 
pubescent branches. Leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate, subcoria- 
ceous, very nearly sessile, densely copiously punctate, acute Of 
obtuse at the apex, subcordate or rounded at the base, glabrous 
and indistinctly veined above, pubescent on the rather prominent 
veins beneath, the midvein impressed above, elevated on the 
underside; flowers solitary in the axils; peduncles short-pubes- 
cent, 2-6 cm. long; bractlets 2, subfoliaceous, ovate-oblong, 
pubescent, 4-7 mm. long; ovary pubescent; calyx-lobes tomen- 
tose, elliptic-ovate to oval, 3.5 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, ciliate; 
petals broadly obovate to stborbicular, 8.5-9 mm. long, 6.5-7 mm. 
broad; young fruit oblong, pubescent, 9 mm. long. 
Rocky coastal hills, Santiago Bay. Oriente. Type from El 
Morro (Britton & Cowell 12544). 
