126 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



E. Blodgettii, Engelm. in herb. E. incequilalera, Chapm. 

 Fl. (not Sonder). (Plate 13.) 



Nassau; Eleuthera; Cat Is. (R.) • Crooked Is. ; Fortune 



Is.; Inagua; Lucea; Grand Cayman. 

 Prostrate spreading or erect, glabrous; leaves rather leathery, oval, 

 more or less oblique, subcordate or cuueate at base, apex obtuse! 

 rather remotely low-serrulate or denticulate towards the apex; upper 

 leaves narrower, acutish and entire; stipules deltoid, upper side laciniatc 

 toothed, lower, 2-toothed; involucre hairy within, bearing four oval 

 glands each with a white or pinkish appendage, two of which are round- 

 ish, entire and about the size of the gland, and two larger and retuse; 

 lobes of involucre lanceolate, erose, nearly twice as long as gland and 

 appendage; fruit glabrous, ovate; styles 3, short, each 2-parted to the 

 middle; seeds oblong, square in cross section, reddish, microscopically 

 papillate, becoming smooth and gray or brown after wetting, .7 by 1 mm. 

 An average leaf is about 6 mm. by 12 mm. on a petiole 1 mm. long. Com- 

 mon in sandy soil along the coast. 



This also occurs at Key West, Blodgett (type specimen, in Herb. 

 Torrey. & Herb. Engelm.), S. Florida, Chapman, Curtiss, as shown by 

 specimens in Herb. Engelmann. 



E. buxifolia, Lam. Diet. ii. 1786. 



Nassau; Eleuthera; Cat Is. ; Crooked Is.; Fortune Is.; 

 Watling's; Inagua; Lucea; Grand Cayman. 

 E. heterophylla, L. Spec. 1753. 



Nassau; Eleuthera; Cat Is.; Grand Cayman. 

 Var. cyathophora, (Murr.) Boiss. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 

 1862. E. cyathophora, Murr. Comm. Gott. vii, 1777^ 

 Constant Springs. 

 Var. graminifolia, (Michx.) Engelm. Mex. Bound. 

 1859. E. graminifolia, Michx. Fl. 1803. 

 Nassau; Eleuthera; Cat Is.; Fortune Is.; Inagua; 

 Port Morant. 

 E. hypericifolia, L. Spec. 1753. 



Nassau; Eleuthera; Inagua; Constant Springs; Bog 



Walk; Port Morant; Port Antonio; Lucea; Grand 



Cayman. 



This differs from our common northern form in having the upper 



internodes conspicuously slender. No dark spots were observed ou 



the leaves. Growth erect or ascending. 



E. Peplus, L. Spec. 1753. 

 Blue Mt. Peak. 



