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Family RUBIACEAE 
Machaeonia minutifolia Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A shrub about 2 m. high, the twigs spiniform, slender, spar- 
ingly leafy, finely pubescent when young, soon becoming glabrous, 
the old branches stout, light gray. Leaves elliptic or suborbicular 
to elliptic-obovate, somewhat conduplicate, 1-2 mm. long, ciliate, 
rounded at the apex, very nearly sessile; flowers glabrous, sessile 
or very nearly so in the cymes; calyx-lobes rounded, about as 
long as the tube; corolla white, about 1.5 mm. long, its lobes 
obtuse ; style about as long as the calyx-lobes ; stigmas 2, short. 
Palm barren, between Camaguey and Santayana (Britton 
2397). 7 
Scolosanthus lucidus Britton, sp. nov. 
A shrub about 1 m, high, with slender, terete, rough-puberu- 
lent, resinous branches. Leaves ovate-orbicular, coriaceous, 8-13 
mim. long, shining, nearly sessile, mucronate at the apex, rounded 
at the base, dark green with the midvein impressed above, dull 
green with midvein somewhat elevated beneath, the lateral vena- 
tion wholly obscure, the margin revolute; calyx-lobes suborbicu- 
lar, 0.8 mm. broad, minutely hispidulous; corolla not seen; fruit 
(immature) subglobose, 4 mm. in diameter, greenish. 
Moa Bay, east of Rio Moa, Oriente (Shafer 8355, type) ; col- 
lected in the same region by Roig (60), and also collected in Cuba 
by Wright and mixed with Scolosanthus Wrightianus (2660 in 
part). ® 
Psychotria Clementis Britton, sp, nov. 
A shrub about 2 m. high, glabrous throughout. Leaves mem- 
branous, narrowly obovate or oblanceolate, 8-16 cm. long, rather 
strongly veined with the veins spreading-ascending, acuminate at 
the apex, cuneate at the base, the slender petioles 1 cm. long or 
less; stipules broadly lanceolate, acuminate, incised and ciliate, 
united below, about 8 mm. long; fruiting panicle corymbiform 
about 7 cm. broad; fruiting pedicels 5 mm. long or less; fruit 
oblong, 7 mm. long, about 5 mm. thick, grooved, capped by the 
short calyx-limb. 
Sierra del Caballete, Sancti Spiritus mountains, Santa Clara 
(Léon & Clement 6522). 
Psychotria bermejalensis Britton, sp. nov. 
shrub about 2 m. high, the slender branches glabrous. 
Leaves elliptic, glabrous, rather thin, 5-10 cm. long, the veins dis- 
