Plantae novae bahamenses. II. 247 



branches diffusely spreading, very slender, longer than the stem. 8 cm long 

 or less, appressed-strigose; leaves linear, 3 — 4 mm long, about 1mm wide, 

 sessiie, acute, appressed-strigose; flowers white, minute, enclosed in the 

 tufts of upper leaves; sepals lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, about 

 2 mm long, very hairy; ovary deeply 4-lobed; fruit 4-lobed, depressed, 

 about 1 mm wide and about one half as high as wide, the very short 

 style capped by a broad abruptly-tipped stigma. 



Bahamas Islands. Moujean Harbor, Little Inagua. October 20, 

 1904 (Nash & Taylor, 1221). 



25. Heliotropium inaguense N. L. Britton, 1. c, p. 122. 



A low shrub, 5 — 20 cm high, intricately much-branched, very densely 

 appressed-strigose all over with nearly white hairs. Leaves opposite, 

 ascending or appressed, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 3 — 5 mm long, 

 about 1 mm wide sessile, acutish, somewhat revolute-margined, mostly 

 longer than the internodes; flowers few, solitary and very nearly sessile 

 in the upper axils; sepals similar to the upper leaves; corolla white, its 

 tube 2 mm long, its 5 ovate acute lobes about 1 mm long, spreading; 

 stamens nearly sessile on the corolla-tube below the middle; style very 

 short, stout; stigma 4-lobed. 



Bahamas Islands. Canfield Bay to Cabbage Pond, Inagua (Nash 

 & Taylor, 1293, type); white lands, Tenados, Inagua (Nash & Taylorr 

 1033) Superficially resembling the Cuban plant referred to if. micro- 

 phyllum Sw. (Wright, 3139), and H. nanum Northrop, of Andros, New 

 Providence, and the Berry Islands. 



26. Lantana ovatifolia N. L. Britton. 1. c, p. 123. 



Stems woody, little branched, diffusely spreading, '7 dm long or less, 

 bluntly 4-angled, very rough-pubescent with stiff appressed hairs. Leaves 

 ovate, thick, short-petioled, 5 cm long or less, very scabrous on the 

 upper surface, rough-pubescent with stiff hairs beneath, especially on the 

 4 to 6 principal veins on each side of the prominent mid-vein, acute at 

 the apex, abruptly cuneate-norrowed at the obtuse or subtruncate base, 

 the margin low-crenate nearly all around; petioles rather stout, rough. 

 3—5 mm long; peduncles axillary, slender, about 4 cm long, smooth or 

 nearly so when old; flowers and fruit not seen. 



Bahamas Islands. A peculiar spezies sprawling among shrubs 

 and Pteridium, in pine-lands, Eight Mile Rocks, Great Bahama (Britton 

 & Millspaugh, 2450). 



27. Lantana balsamifera N. L. Britton, 1. c, p. 123. 



A shrub, 1,6 m high or less, forming large masses, with a balsamic 

 odor, the slender bluntly angular branches ascending, puberulent; the 

 internodes short, often not longer than the small leaves. Leaves elliptic 

 to ovate-elliptic or nearly orbicular, 5—10 mm long. 5 mm wide or less, 

 puberulent, acute or obtuse, firm, crenulate, rugose-reticulated above, 

 paler and rather strongly veined beneath, the petioles 1—1,5 mm long; 

 peduncles slender, thickened above, 8—15 mm long in fruit; heads about 

 € mm broad, several-flowered; bracts lanceolate, puberulent, obtusish, 



