Plantae novae bahamenses. I. 151 
5. Opuntia Nashii N. L. Britton, l. c., p. 446. 
Tree-like, dull green. Main axis round, 1—4 m high, 5—-12 cm in 
diameter, spiny; branches flat or becoming round below, the principal 
ones continuous, 1 m long or more, 6 vm wide or less, crenate blunt; 
lateral branches opposite or alternate, oblong to linear-oblong, often 3 dm 
long, and 8 cm wide, only about 6 mm thick, blunt, crenate; areoles 
1—3 em apart, slightly elevated; spines mostly 5 at each areole (2—5), 
divergent, slender, straight, light gray, pungent, the longer 3—5 cm 
long; glochides very small, brownish; ovary 3 cm long, 1,5 cm thick, 
somewhat clavate, tubercled, the tubercles bearing areoles and spines 
similar to those of the joints, but the spihes somewhat shorter; flowers 
1,5 em broad when expanded, red; petals broadly oval to obovate, blunt, 
about 8 mm long, much longer than the stamens. 
Bahama Islands: Inagua (Nash & Taylor, 1063). Apparently to 
be referred to the section Cruciformes, as a relative of O. spinosissima 
Mill, the type locality of which is Jamaica. 
6. Bumelia loranthifolia (Pierre) N. L. Britton, Le p. 447. 
Bumelia retusa loranthifolia Pierre; Pierre & Urban, Symb. Ant. V, 145. 
1904. 
| take this up as specifically distinet from the Jamaican B. retusa Sw. 
It is very abundant on New Providence, the type locality (Eggers, 4228; 
Curtiss, 85; Coker, 20, 156; Brace, 115; Britton, 44, 88; Britton 
& Brace, 283, 290, 315, 351, 538), and is known also from several of 
the other islands. Its leaves vary greatly in size on individual bushes 
from 2 em to 4 cm long, and from obovate-cuneate to nearly orbicular. 
Its fruit is jet black, shining, oblong to globose, 12 mm long or less; 
the pedicels are not more than twice as long as the flowers; flowers 
white, fragrant. 
1. Bumelia Bahamensis N. L. Britton, l. c., p. 447. 
A shrub with slender puberulous twigs, related to B. loranthifolia. 
Leaves spatulate-oblanceolate, coriaceous, revolute-margined, 8 cm long 
or less, 1.5--2,5 cm wide, rounded at the apex, narrowly cuneate at 
the base, dull green and glabrous above, densely brown-tomentulose 
beneath, rather strongly pinnately veined, the veins ascending at a 
narrow angle; petioles stout, 5 mm long or less; flowers about 6 in each 
axillary cluster; pedicels brown-fur-furaceous, stout, 8—10 mm long, three 
times as long as the calyx. 
Bahama Islands: Coastal thicket, Delaport, New Providence (Brit- 
ton & Brace, 295). 
8. Sabbatia simulata N. L. Britton, Le, p. 448. 
Similar to S. campanuiata (L.) Torr., of the Atlantic Coast States and 
hitherto confused with it, but more slender than that species and with 
smaller white flowers. Plant 4 dm high or less, the upper leaves 
narrowly linear, 1—3 cm long, about 1 mm wide, the lower spatulate, 
acute, 4 cm long or less, 2—5 mm wide, the basal ones spatulate to 
orbicular; calyx-lobes narrowly linear. less than 1 mm wide, nearly as 
