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oblong, oblong-lanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, chartaceous, 3-8 
cm. long, I-3 cm. wide, entire or very nearly so, acute, obtuse or 
rounded at the apex, obtuse, subtruncate or narrowed at the base, 
dark green, finely reticulate-veined and glabrous above, strongly 
reticulate-veined beneath, the slender petioles 5-12 mm. long; 
cymes small, peduncled, much shorter than the leaves; pedicels 
very short ; calyx obconic, white stellate-scurfy, 1.5 mm. wide, the 
lobes very short, broadly triangular; corolla pink, 3-3.5 mm. long, 
the lobes oval, rounded at the apex; filaments filiform, exserted ; 
fruit subglobose, scurfy, blue, 3.5—4 mm. in diameter. 
Limestone hills and plains, Pinar del Rio and Isle of Pines. 
Type from limestone hills, vicinity of Sumidero, Pinar del Rio 
(Shafer 13526). 
Callicarpa Wrightii Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A shrub, 6-12 dm. high, the twigs, petioles and inflorescence 
densely brown stellate-scurfy. Leaves obovate to elliptic or 
oblong, membranous, 7-12 cm. long, 1.5-5 cm. wide, crenate- 
serrate at least above the middle, acuminate at the apex, cuneate 
at the base, dark green, glabrous and inconspicuously veined 
above, green, sparingly stellate on the principal veins, lightly 
reticulate-veined and copiously resinous-dotted beneath, the pe- 
tioles 5-9 mm. long; cymes few-flowered, short-peduncled, much 
shorter than the leaves, sometimes not longer than the petioles; 
fruit greenish, about 5 mm. in diameter, on pedicels about 1.5 
mm. long. 
Valleys and hillsides, northern Oriente. Type from Moa 
Bay, east of Rio Moa (Shafer 8308A). 
Callicarpa cuneifolia Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A shrub up to 2 m. high, the twigs, petioles, under leaf- 
surfaces and branches of the inflorescence densely stellate- 
pubescent with ferruginous hairs, Leaves obovate or elliptic, 
chartaceous, 4-7 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, crenulate, acute or 
acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, dark-green and some- 
what scabrous above, the midvein strongly impressed, reticulate- 
veined and finely glandular beneath, the petioles about 6 mm. 
long; cymes small, peduncled, shorter than the leaves; pedicels 
I.5-2 mm. long; calyx 3 mm. broad; fruit subglobose, 4 mm. in 
diameter, puberulent when young, glandular. 
Hillsides and pine woods, northern Oriente. Type from a 
dry serpentine hill, Loma Santa Teresa, near El Yunque (Shafer 
7741). 
