Part 2, 1917] AMARANTHACEAE 169 
Cruzeta crassifolia Maza, Fl. Haban. 94. 1897. 
Lithophila vermiculata Uline, Field Columb. Mus. Publ. Bot. 2: 39. 1900. 
Plants much branched, glabrous outside the inflorescence except in the axils of the leaves, 
there villous; branches stout, fleshy, prostrate or procumbent, 3-20 dm. long, subgeniculate, 
often rooting at the nodes; leaves sessile, linear to oblanceolate or rarely oblong, 1.5-5.5 em. 
long, 2-12 mm. wide, obtuse or acute at the apex, attenuate to the base, thick and fleshy, the 
veins scarcely distinguishable, glabrous; spikes solitary or glomerate, sessile or short-peduncu- 
late, globose or usually cylindric in age, 0.7-3 em. long, 0.7-1.1 cm. thick, obtuse, the rachis 
lanate, the flowers white; bracts broadly ovate, 1-nerved, acute or obtuse; bractlets ovate- 
oblong, slightly shorter than the sepals, acute, glabrous; sepals oblong, 3-5 mm. long, the 
outer ones obtuse, glabrous, the inner narrower, acute, usually lanate near the base; seed 
orbicular, 0.8-1 mm. broad, dark-brown, shining. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Curacao. 
DISTRIBUTION: On seashores, Florida to Texas; Mexico to Panama; West Indies; also from 
Colombia to Brazil, and on the west coast of Africa. 
InLustRaTIONS: Beauv. Fl. Oware i. 98; Fawc. & Rendle, Fl, Jam. 3: f. 46. 
DOUBTFUL GENUS 
PHYLLEPIDUM Raf. Med. Repos. 5: 335. 1808. Type species, P. squarrosum Raf., 
said to have been found near Baltimore, Maryland. The genus was referred to the 
Amaranthaceae by Rafinesque, but the description and illustration (Raf. Specchio 1: pi. 4) 
do not apply to any known North Ametican plant of the family. 
