184 N. L. Britton: Plantae novae bahamenses. 1. 
oblanceolate, with various apices, some acute, others blunt, rounded, 
or emarginate on the same branchlet, smooth and shining above, 
puberulent and reticulate-veined beneath; inflorescence of axillary 
racemes, the flowers sessile or nearly so, the bracts minute, acuminate: 
calyx glabrous, long-campanulate, the border either truncate, slightly 
denticulate or variously lobed in the same raceme, about half the length 
of the corolla; corolla glabrous exteriorly, hairy in the tube and throat, 
the lobes small, orbicular, constricted at the base; pyrenae 4 X 6 mm, 
dark slate color, crateriform, the apex erose. 
Leaves 7—10 cm X 2—4 cm; racemes 6-9 cm long; flowers 
1 em long. : , 
Bahama Islands: Type from a coppice on Farringdon Road (Brit- 
ton & Brace, 233); coastal coppice at South West Bay, New Providence 
Britton & Brace, 499). 
14. Lycium spathulifolium N. L. Britton, |. c., p. 451. 
A glabrous shrub, 1,3 m high or less, with long slender drooping 
(branches, some of the twigs tipped by spines 2—4 mm long, the bark 
gray. Leaves 2—4 together at the nodal cushions, or solitary, spatulate, ` 
fleshy, entire, 6—15 mm long, 1,5—3 mm wide, obtuse, long-attenuate 
from above the middle to the base; flowers few, solitary; peduncle fili- 
form, 5 mm long, gradually thickened above; calyx eampanulate, 2—2,5 mm 
long, somewhat scurfy, its teeth broadly ovate, obtuse, whitish-lanate; 
corolla funnelform, white, its tube 4—5 mm long, its 4 oblong obtusish 
lobes two thirds as long as the tube. 
Bahama Islands: In coppice, Upper Savannah, Inagua (Nash 
& Taylor, 1321). 
15. Psychotria Bahamensis Millsp., l. c., p. 451. 
Shrubby, glabrous. Leaves thin, lanceolate to oblanceolate, broadest 
at or above the middle, narrowed to a point at the apex and to the 
petiole, slightly pilose beneath, especially along the midrib; stipules 
large, orbicular, dimidiate-sbeathing, apiculate; inflorescence paniculate, 
4-chotomous, exceeded by the leaves; pedicels blepharose at the axils; 
calyx shallow-cupuliform, hairy-fringed above, with 5 short, deltoid, hairy 
teeth; corolla-tube glabrous without, bearded in a ring at the insertions 
of the filaments within, lobes 5, elliptic, acute, strongly deflexed, nearly 
as long as the tube; fruit ellipsoidal, pyrenae plano-convex, 5 X 4 mm 
5-ridged, the ridges flattened, equidistant; albumen flat at the com- 
missure. 
Leaves light green beneath, dark above, 8—12 X 2—4 cm, the main 
veins brick red beneath; near JP. undata Jacq. from which it differs 
especially in the hairy calyx, the hairyness of the midveins beneath, 
the stipules, and the pyrenae. Type from a coppice on the Farringdon 
Road, Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas, Aug. 24, 1904 (Britton 
& Brace, 206); same locality (Britton & Brace, 208); coppice at 
Winton (Britton & Brace, 662); pine lands; Blue Hill Road (Britton, 
17); and Nassau, March 2, 1903 (F. S. Earle, 48, 52). : 
