98 Britton: CuspAN PLants NEw TO SCIENCE 
Callicarpa nipensis Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A shrub about 6 dm. high, the twigs, inflorescence, petioles 
and under leaf-surfaces densely brown stellate-tomentose. Leaves 
linear-oblong, coriaceous, entire or very slightly repand, 12 cm. 
long or less, 8-18 mm. wide, acute at the apex, narrowed at the 
base, tapering gradually from near the middle to both ends, dark 
green and minutely setulose with impressed venation above, 
strongly elevated-veined beneath, the rather stout petioles 6-9 
mm. long; cymes peduncled, shorter than the leaves, several- 
flowered; fruit blue, compressed, short-pubescent, about 7 mm. 
broad. 
Border of pinelands, Sierra Nipe, near Woodfred, Oriente, 
450-550 meters altitude (Shafer 3026). 
Vitex Clementis Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
Young twigs rather slender, densely tomentulose. Leaves 
3-foliolate ; petioles slender, tomentulose, 2-7 cm. long ; petiolules 
2 cm. long or less; leaflets oblong-elliptic, 6-10 cm. long, rather 
thin, acute or obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base, glabrous 
above, or nearly so, except upon the impressed veins, densely 
tomentulose and with elevated veins beneath; cymes several or 
numerous, panicled, few-several-flowered, tomentulose ; pedicels 
2-5 mm. long; calyx short-campanulate, about 6 mm. broad, its 
lobes suborbicular, ciliate; corolla purple, 1.5-1.7 cm. broad, vil- 
lous on the outside, its lobes very unequal, its tube 6 mm. long. 
Coastal thickets, Santiago, Oriente (Clement 168, type) ; col- 
lected also at Cabo Cruz, as shown by a specimen from the Sau- 
valle Herbarium. 
Pseudocarpidium Shaferi Britton, sp. nov. 
A shrub or small tree up to 4 m. high, the young twigs, pe- 
tioles and under leaf-surfaces whitish-tomentulose. Leaves ob- 
long, or oblong-oblanceolate, coriaceous, 3.5 cm. long or less, 6-10 
mm. wide, entire, or rarely with 1 or 2 spinulose teeth, acute and 
spinulose-tipped, the base subcuneate, the principal veins delicate 
above, rather prominent beneath, the upper surface dark green, 
glabrous, densely and finely reticulate-veined; panicle slender, 
puberulent, a little longer than the leaves; calyx 2 mm. long, its 
ovate, sharply acute lobes somewhat shorter than the tube; co- 
rolla puberulent, about 5 mm. long; fruit densely pubescent, 
4-lobed, depressed, 4-6 mm. broad. 
Coastal thickets between Sabana and Maisi, Oriente (Shafer 
790r). 
