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1—1,5 cm long; sepals oblong, obtuse, densely tomentulose, 6—7 mm 

 long, 1,5—2 mm wide, soon reflexed; petals bright yellow, about aslong 

 as the sepals, oblong to oblong-spatulate, obtuse; legume obliquely obo- 

 vate, 6—8 cm long, 4 cm wide, 2 cm thick, shining, armed with nume- 

 rous rather distant yellow stiff bristles 6 mm long or less, its sharp 

 stout beak about 1 cm long; seed globular, yellow-brown, shining, 

 1,6 cm in diameter. 



The type specimens are not quite typical ot the species, having 

 small leaves obtuse a both ends. 



22. Canavalia bahamensis N. L. Britton, 1. c, p. 119. 

 A long vine, related to G. cubensis Griseb. Leaflets thin, oblong- 

 lanceolate to ovate-oblong, 5 — 8 cm long, firm, glabrous, faintly veined, 

 narrowed or obtuse at the base but not cordate, the apex bluntly acute; 

 racemes stout-peduncled, slightly pubescent, longer than the leaves, 

 nodose, pendent, 5 — 8 cm long, the peduncles shorter; pedicels curved, 

 erect, 2—4 mm long; bractlets at base of calyx 2, orbicular, 1 mm 

 broad, lacerate; calyx very oblique, 6 — 8 mm long, with one small acute 

 tooth opposite the keel-petals, the much larger upper lip with three 

 short broad teeth; corolla about twice as long as the calyx, the standard 

 purple, the wings and strongly curved keel pink: legume linear-oblong, 

 compressed, about 12 cm long, 3 cm wide, 1 — 1,5 cm thick, shortpointed, 

 narrowed at the base not constricted, the stout stipe 1 — 2 cm long, the 

 valves rather membranous; seeds oval, 1,5 cm long, 1 cm thick, red-brown, 

 shining. 



Bahamas Islands. Climbing over shrubs, Marsh Harbor, Abaco 

 (Brace, 1620, Dec. 10, 1904, flowering specimen, type); Tarpum Bay, 

 Eleuthera (Coker, 411. fruiting specimen, Juli .7, 1903). 



23. Hibiscus bahamensis N. L. Britton, 1. c, p. 120. 



A shrub, the leaves, calyx, peduncles and twigs densely and finely 

 stellate-pubescent. Leaves ovate in outline, palmately veined, 10 cm long 

 or less, firm in texture, cordate to truncate at the base, 3-lobed, or 

 5-lobed with the middle lobe much the longest and acuminate, the lateral 

 lobes acute or obtuse, irregularly dentate; upper leaves varying to lanceo- 

 late, and merely dentate; petioles as long as the blades or shorter; 

 peduncles stout, solitary in the axils, longer than the subtending petioles, 

 jointed near the middle; bractlets linear-lanceolate, acuminate, very un- 

 equal, the longer about 1,5 cm long; calyx 2—2,5 cm long, densely stellate- 

 pubescent, its oblong lobes strongly veined, acuminate; petals brownish 

 3,5 cm long, densely pubescent without, oblanceolate, obtusish; capsule 

 oval. 2,5 cm long, 2 cm thick, densely silky. 



Bahamas Islands. California Road, Abaco (Brace, 2042, type); 

 Nicol's Town, Andros (Northrop, 397); Tarpum Bay, Eleuthera (Coker, 

 404). Related to the Cuban H. cryptocarpus Rich., and referred to that 

 species by Mrs. Northrop. 



24. Heliotropium diffusum N. L. Britton, 1. c. p. 122. 



Perennial by slender deep root. Stem slender, 4 cm high or less, the 



