360 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. II 



transverse ridges.* Inflorescence terminal on the branchlets; bracts 

 cucullate, one third to one quarter the length of the peduncles. In- 

 volucres about 9 mm. puberulent, bright and lasting madder-lake 

 color; inferior cleft of the tube shallow, the superior fissure open half the 

 length of the tube; main lobes blunt, finely erose-lacerate, the two 

 lateral lobes minute, free only at the apex, the fifth lobe flabelliform, 

 free half its length; male pedicels glabrous, slightly longer than the tube, 

 anthers glabrous, female pedicel minutely puberulent, style very slightly 

 trifid. Appendix narrow, about one half the length of the tube, sarcous, 

 usually sigmoid, the lobe blunt, very slightly notched at the apex, strong- 

 ly gibbous at the base; glands 2, stipitate, of the form of a ruptured 2- 

 celled anther. Capsule flattened-globose, deeply 3-carpelled; seeds 

 trigonal, olivaceous, the dorsal angle quite prominent, apiculate and 

 with a minute raised pimple at the apex, 3x2.5 mm. 

 Type locality: GRAND TURK ISLAND, on the rocky plain south of the 



town where it is one of the common shrubs, C. F. & C. M. Millspaugh 



9030, February, 1911. Type in herb. Field Museum of Natural 



History, Chicago, sheet No. 287.782. 

 Distribution: The BAHAMA ISLANDS from Deep Creek, ANDROS, to 



ATWOOD CAY, ACKLIN ISLAND, INAGUA, and GRAND TURK to SALT 



CAY. 



ii. PEDILANTHUS FENDLERI Boiss. in D. C. Prodr., 15:5. 1862. 



Pedilanthus gritensis Zahlbr. An. K. K. Nat. Hofmus. Wien., 12:104. 

 1897. 



Shrubby. Leaves 3.8-5 cm. long, short petioled, puberulent at 

 least beneath, cuneate at the base, acute, subcarinate. Cymes termi- 

 nal, few-involucred, dense; bracts one half the length of the peduncles; 

 involucre purple, 9 mm. long, rusty-hairy without, smooth within; tube 

 somewhat gibbous, the notch obtuse; main lobes rotund, lateral pair 

 blunt-ligulate, connate except at the apex, fifth lobe ligulate, half free, 

 rounded at the apex, all ciliate on the apical margin; male and female 

 pedicels hairy on the upper two thirds; style trifid at the apex, the stig- 

 matic lobes bifid. Appendix strongly ascending, one third the length of 

 the tube, the ligulate lobe round-margined; glands 4. 

 Type locality: VENEZUELA, Fendler 1202. Type (co-type visa) in herb. 



de Candolle, Geneva. 

 Distribution: VENEZUELA, Karsten. COLOMBIA, H. H. Smith 1295. 



MARGARITA ISLAND, Miller & Johnston 31. 



* The peculiar silicious ridges of the stems and branches produce a high squeak 

 when they are rubbed together children play at fiddling with them, hence the local 

 name "Monkey-fiddle." (The play of children being locally termed "monkey 

 play.") 



