Schmidtottia shaferi (Standl.) Urb.

Portlandia shaferi Standley, sp. now
Shrub, the branches brownish-gray, the branchlets compressed, glabrous, the internodes elongate; stipules annular, truncate, 1.5 mm. long, minutely puberulent; leaves sessile, the blades oval-oblong, or the uppermost oval-orbicular, slightly broadest near the base, 3.5-11 cm. long, 3-5 cm. wide, rounded at the apex, subcordate at the base, thick-coriaceous, very lustrous on the upper surface and glabrous, slightly paler beneath, dull, glabrous, or minutely puberulent near the base, the margins slightly revolute, the costa stout, prominent beneath, the lateral veins obscure; inflorescence terminal, capitate, many-flowered, the flowers sessile; corolla narrowly campanulate, 2 cm. long, the lobes short, obtuse or acutish; capsule obovoid-turbinate, 1 cm. long, 0.7 cm. wide, compressed, obscurely costate, truncate at the apex, dark-brown,
glabrous, the persistent calyx-lobes triangular, acute, 1.2-2 cm. long; seeds few, flat, irregular
in outline, about 3 mm. long, dark-brown, finely reticulate.
Type collected on compact red soil, Rio Yamaniguey to Camp Toa, Oriente, Cuba, altitude 400 meters, February, 1910, J. A. Shafer 4180 (U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 793795).