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Abaco Cherokee Sound, Brace 194.0. 



Great Bahama Eight Mile Rocks, B. 6 M. 2444. 



Great Sturrup Cay B. & M. 



Lignum Vitae Cay B. &> M. 



Little and Great Harbor Cays B. 6 M. 



Frozen Cay B. cr 5 M. 



Whale Cay B.& M. 2188. 



Gun Cay Millsp. 2306. 



South Cat Cay Millsp. 2422. 



Mangrove Cay Bryant 15. 



Rose Island B. 6 M. 2127. 



New Providence near Ft. Montague, Northrop 56; Curtiss sine num.; 



Britton 51 ; Earle 45 ; Coker 21 ; Brace 70; Hitchcock; Wight 45. 

 Eleutflera Governor's Harbor, Hitchcock. 



Exuma Chain on all islands visited except Exuma Island, B. 6 M.; 

 Cave Cay, B. 6- M. 2821. 

 Cat Island Port Howe, Hitchcock. 

 Watlings Island Hitchcock. 

 Crooked Island Hitchcock. 

 Fortune Island Hitchcock. 



Inagua Mathew Town, N. 6 7. 8go, 933,- Hitchcock. 

 Grand Turk Island N. 6 T. 3763 ; Hjalmarsson. 



Lantana odorata Linn. 



Doubtless rare on the Bahamian Islands. So far only known by the 

 following specimen : 

 Green Turtle Cay Brace 1478. 



Lantana ovatifolia Britton. 



A peculiar large and coarse-leaved species, sprawling among shrubs 

 and Pteridium in the pine lands of: 



Great Bahama at Eight Mile Rocks, B. 6 M. 2430 type; Brace 3686. 



NASHIA gen. nov. 



Frutices. Truncus 4-costatus. Cortex roseo-cinereus in laciniae 

 tenuiter exfolientibus. Rami opposito robustis, ramuli ad tuberculae 

 reductus. Foliis ad apicem tuberculae fasciculate vel ad rami oppositi 

 dispositis. Inflorescentia capitellata, rhachi crasso, calyce in annulo 

 reducto corolla tubulo-campanulatis in aestivo valvato lobis 4 aequaliter 

 magnitude stamina 4 didymamo. Fructus drupaceus, pyrenae in nucu- 

 lis osseis coherentibus. 



I take great pleasure in dedicating this striking genus to Mr. George 

 Valentine Nash, who, in his energetic field work in the Bahamas, South 

 Florida and Haiti, has rediscovered many little known species and 

 amassed very valuable collections toward a flora of these regions. 



