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2-8 cm. long, acute, acuminate or bluntish at the apex, narrowed at the base, 

 the midvein prominent, the lateral veins few and obscure, the slender petioles 

 4-12 mm. long; racemes several-many-flowered, as long as the leaves, or 

 longer, or shorter; corolla 5-lobed nearly to the middle, yellow, 6-9 mm. long; 

 drupes bright white, orbicular, 5-8 mm. broad. 



Coppices, scrub-lands and pine-lands, throughout the archipelago from Abaco, 

 Great Bahama and Andros to Mariguana, North Caicos and Inagua : Florida ; West 

 Indies ; continental tropical America. Consists of many races differing in size of 

 corolla, shape of leaves and with calyx-teeth deltoid to deltoid-lanceolate, the anther 

 tips either included or somewhat exserted beyond the corolla-tube. WEST INDIAN 

 SNOWBERKT. SNAKEROOT. 



2. Chiococca pinetorum Britton; Millsp. Field Mus. Bot. 2: 171. 1906. 



A vine, creeping or low-climbing, sometimes 1.5 m. long, usually shorter. 

 Branches short; leaves ovate, lanceolate or elliptic, small, 2-4.5 cm. long, 

 varying from acute to obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base, coriaceous, 

 dark green and shining above, paler and dull beneath, the midvein impressed 

 on the under side, the lateral veins few and obscure, the petiole slender, 2-3 

 mm. long; racemes few-flowered, shorter than the leaves or about equalling 

 them; pedicels about as long as the calyx, or sometimes a little longer; calyx 

 campanulate 2 mm. long; corolla funnelform-campanulate, about 5 mm. long, 

 white or purple changing to yellow; berry white, somewhat compressed, 4-6 

 mm. in diameter. 



Pine-lands and scrub-lands, Abaco, Great Bahama, Andros, New Providence. Cat 

 Island and Watling's : Florida. PINELAND SNOWBERRY. 



13. SCOLOSANTHUS A T ahl, Eclog. 1: 11. 1796. 



Shrubs, often spiny, with opposite petioled coriaceous leaves, and small 

 or minute, axillary, solitary or clustered, peduncled flowers. Calyx-tube short, 

 the limb 4-cleft, the lobes narrow. Corolla small, funnelform, its 4 short 

 spreading lobes imbricated. Stamens 4, included, the filaments filiform, the 

 anthers linear. Ovary 2-celled; style slender, pilose; stigma notched or 2- 

 cleft; ovules solitary in each ovary-cavity, pendulous. Fruit a small drupe. 

 [Greek, curved flower, of no obvious application.] About 7 species, natives of 

 the West Indies. Type species: Scolosantlius versicolor Vahl. 



1. Scolosanthus bahamensis Britton, Bull. X. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 452. 1905. 



An intricately branched, somewhat resinous shrub, 8 dm. high or less, 

 with gray-brown bark, the young twigs greenish, densely papillose, 4-angled, 

 armed with slender scattered pungent solitary spines 1 cm. long or less. 

 Leaves opposite or fascicled, 2-5 mm. long, thick, papillose, ovate to elliptic, 

 revolute-margined, obtuse, very short-petioled, dark green above, paler beneath; 

 flowers not seen; fruits solitary, oblong to globose, white, soft, 2-4 mm. long. 



Coppices and pine-lands, Andros, New Providence and Cat Island. Endemic. 

 BAHAMA SCOLOSANTHUS. 



14. STRUMPFIA Jacq. Enum. 8, 28. 1760. 



A low, much-branched shrub, with linear, revolute-margined, coriaceous, 

 very short-petioled leaves vertieillate in 3 's, and crowded near the ends of the 

 short- jointed branches, the small white flowers in short axillary racemes, the 

 small stipules persistent. Calyx ovoid, the limb 5-cleft, the lobes persistent. 

 Corolla deeply 5-cleft, the lobes lanceolate, imbricated, the tube very short. 

 Stamens 5, borne at the base of the corolla-tube; filaments short, slightly 



