248 N. L. Britton: Plantae novae bahamenses. II. 



2,5—3 mm long; calyx 2-toothed, pubescent, 1 mm long, its teeth blunt ; 

 corolla purple, its slightly gibbous tube about 3 mm long, its spreading 

 limb with 5 unequal obtuse lobes; stamens borne near the top of the 

 corollatube, the anthers as long as the filaments or longer. 



Bahamas Island. Moujean Harbor, Little Inagua (Nash & Taylor. 

 1211, type; 1203; 1198). Locally known as Moujean Tea. Apparently, 

 nearest to L. reticulata Pers. 



28. Oestrum bahamense N. L. Britton, 1. c, p. 123. 



A shrub 3 m high or less, glabrous throughout, the bark light gray. 

 Leaves ovate to ovate-elliptic, pale green on both sides, but slightly darker 

 green above than beneath, 5—10 cm long, 5 cm wide or less, firm in texture, 

 acute at both ends, or the apex obtusish, faintly 7 — 9- veined on each 

 side of the mid-vein, which is rather prominent on the under side and 

 impressed on the upper; petioles slender, 1 — 1,5 cm long; cymes (?> 

 axillary, few-several-flowered, their peduncles much shorter than the 

 petioles; pedicels 1.5 — 3 mm long; calyx oblong-campanulate in flower. 

 4 mm long, its teeth triangular-lanceolate, 1--5 mm long; corolla-tube 

 greenish-yellow, 9—13 mm long, narrowly obconic, its lobes lanceolate, 

 acuminate, purplish, 4 — 5 mm long, white-lanose within; stamens inserted 

 high up on the tube of the corolla just below the lobes, the free part 

 of the filament scarcely longer than the anther; berry blue-black, shining, 

 obovoid, about 12 mm long, 5—6 mm thick; fruiting calyx broadly ob- 

 conic, loosely enclosing the narrowed base of the berry. 



Bahamas Islands. Heretofere referred to 0. pallidum Lam., the 

 type locality of which is Jamaica, but clearly distinct from that species; 

 abundant in coppice and scub land. Abaco (Brace, 1521, 1567, 1710); 

 Great Bahama (Britton &Millspaugh, 2603); Great Sturr up Cay, Berry 

 Islands (Britton & Millspaugh, 2267, type); New Providence (Brace, 

 46; Cooper, 60; Curtis, 121; Britton & Brace, 767; E. G. Britton, 

 3289); Andros (Northrop, 432). 



29. Stemmodontia bahamensis N. L. Britton, I. c, p. 126. 

 Perennial, densely strigose-pubescent all over, pale green, 6—10 



dm tall, the branches striate. Leaves lanceolate to ovate, 5 — 12 cm long, 

 1,5 — 3 cm wide, acute to long-acuminate at the apex, narrowed at the 

 base, rather firm in texture, sparingly low-serrate or entire, 3-nerved 

 above the base, the short stoutish petioles mostly not over 1 cm long; 

 heads solitary or 2 or 3 together, on erect peduncles 2 or 3 cm long; 

 outer bracts of the involucre oblong to ovate-oblong, apiculate or acutish, 

 about 9 mm long, faintly manynerved, a little longer than the inner; 

 rays bright yellow, oblong, 1 cm long or less, emarginate about 3 times 

 as long as wide; achenes linear, appressed-pubescent, at least 3,5 mm 

 long. 



Bahamas Islands. Coastal thickets and scrub lands, New Provi- 

 dence (Britton & Brace, 302, type; Britton, 77, 3374; Curtiss, 30; 

 Brace, 266); abundant in scrub land near Georgetown, Great Exuma 

 (Britton & Millspaugh, 2929). Related to S. asperrima (Spreng.) Britton 



