JAN. 1898. FLORA OF YUCATAN MILLSPAUGH. 381 



CARICACE.E. 

 CARICA PAPAYA Linn. Sp. PI., 1036. 



Cult ? Quinta del Obispo, Merida, March, 1865 (Schott, 245). 



LOASACE.E. 



GRONOVIA SCANDENS Linn. Sp. PL, 202. 



Merida, September i, 1865 (Schott, 626}. 



LYTHRACE.E. 



PUNICA GRANATUM Linn. Sp. PL, 676. 



Cult ? Merida, May 22, 1865 (Schott, 40)-. 



RHIZOPHORACE.E. 



RHIZOPHORA MANGLE Linn. Sp. PL, 634. 



Yucatan ad Manglares, Nov. 9, 1864 (Schott, num. amiss.}. 



MYRTACE^:. 



PIMENTA OFFICINALIS Lindl. Coll. Bot. t. 1 9. Pimiento. 



Myrtus Pimento, L. , P. vulgaris Wight. Merida, cult ? April 

 30, 1865 (Schott, 35 8\ 



PSIDIUM GUAJAVA Linn. Sp. PL ed. i, 470. Guayaba. 



Cult. Merida, March 23, 1865 (Schott, 257). 



COMBRETACE.E. 



BUCERAS CATAPPA (Linn.) Hitch. Mo. Bot. Card. i8gj, 85. Almendra. 



Terminalia Linn. Hacienda San Rafael Xteppen, August 7, 



1865 ; Hacienda Cucul, near Merida, September 8, 1865 (Schvtt, 



550, 921} ; Ticul, March 13, 1890 (Stone, 280, in Herb. Acad. Sci., 



Phila.). 



Conocarpus sericea Forst, D.on. Gen. Syst. , ii, 662. Xtabche. 

 Botoncillo. 



"A densely silky sericeous shrub 20 feet high, abundant on 

 the borders of all salt marshes along the coast. Progreso " (1164) 

 (Schott, 266, 267). This form is distinct from C. erecta in all its 

 characters and should (according to our specimens) be kept apart. 



Gyrocarpus Americanus Jacq. Select. Am. 282. Xkis. 



"Tree 80 feet high, common in the forests about Izamal, pro- 

 ducing its large cymose greenish flowers from March to June " 

 (491, 530). Yucatan loc. ignot. (Schott, fjo, in Herb. U. S. 

 Nat'l Mus.). 



UMBELLIFER^E. 



Hydrocotyle prolifera Kellogg, in Proc. Calif. Acad. i, 15. 



''Herb 4 inches high, abundant about the aguada of Xcholac, 

 February " (445). Our specimen agrees with M. Bourgeau's 400 

 from the banks of a canal near Mexico City- 



