Schmidtottia cubensis (Standl.) Urb.

Isidorea cubensis Standley, sp. nov
Shrub, 3-6 dm. high, the branches slender, dark-brown, the branchlets slender, terete or subangulate, minutely hirtellous, the internodes shorter than the leaves; stipules minute; petioles stout, 1-2 mm. long, short-hirtellous; leaf -blades lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, broadest at the base, 7-14 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, obtuse or acutish at the base, gradually narrowed to the acute apex, coriaceous, green above, very lustrous, scaberulous or glabrate, the costa impressed, brownish beneath, somewhat lustrous, scaberulous, the costa prominent, the lateral veins prominent, the margins strongly revolute; flowers solitary, terminal, sessile or subsessile; calyx-lobes 5 or 6, in fruit linear-subulate, 10-12 mm. long, acute, minutely hirtellous, erect; fruit pyriform-obovoid, 8-12 mm. long, brown, minutely hirtellous.
Type collected among rocks, near water, Arroyo del Medio, above the falls, Oriente, Cuba, altitude 450 to 550 meters, January, 1910, /. A. Shafer 3230 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).