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Ovieda fragrans (Willd.) Hitch. 



Escaped from cultivation and becoming fully naturalized along 

 roadways on: 



New Providence Blue Hills Road, Northrop 328; roadside at Lake 

 Cunningham, Millsp. 2221; Nassau, cult. Hitchcock. 



Avicennia nitida Jacq. 



In salt and brackish borders, nowhere common: 

 Abaco Cherokee Sound, Brace 1849. 

 Great Bahama Barnett's Point, B. 6 M. 

 Great Harbor Cay In the large savannah, B. & M. 

 Frozen Cay B. & M. 



South Bimini at the south end, ' Millsp. 2396. 

 New Providence collected by M. A. Howe far out from the south side 



beach, Millsp. 2482. 



Andros at Mastic Po\nt,Northrop 593. 

 Ship Channel Cay -#.6 M. 

 Great Guana Cay B. & M. 



Exuma in the tide pond at Georgetown, B. 6 M. 

 Fortune Island Hitchcock. 

 Inagua N. 6. T 1326. 

 Grand Turk Island N. & 



SOLANACE/E. 

 Solanum didymacanthum sp. nov. 



Leptostemonum - Graciliflora. Kami pilis stellatis pilosi, acul- 

 iatissimis, foliis minutis integris utrinque stellati-pilosis. Caulis fruti- 

 cosus ramosissimus 1-1.5 m - a ^- Kami nigro-viridibus subtomentosis r 

 pilis stellaris, aculeatissimis, aculeis acicularibus ad nodi geminibus 

 foliis bis vel tres longioribus, praegracilis leviter recurvis divaricato- 

 horizontalibus rubro-brunneus basi incrassatis, medio centim. longis. 

 Foliis fasciculatis omnes minutis, petiolatis, oblongis vel obovatis inte- 

 gris 2-2.5 mm - longis utrinque stellati-pilosis, basi acutis, apice acutis 

 vel obtusis. Inflorescentia solitaria terminalia. Pedunculi 3 mm. 

 longi, uniflori, stellato-pilosi inermi; calyce stellato-pilosis inermis 5- 

 dentatis, laciniis lanceolato-triangularis acutis, i mm. longis; corolla 

 alba (?) 5-partita, laciniis liguliformis stellato-pilosis, 8 mm. longis. 

 Stamina 5 corolla nonnihil breviore. Ovarium globosum minimum; 

 stylus filiformis staminibus longior. Bacca ignota. 



A densely virgate-branching, spiny shrub, with minute leaves, the 

 uppermost of which often bear a single spine central upon the mid- 

 rib of the same length and character as those of the nodes; slightly 

 recurved, needle-like spines full twice or thrice the length of the 



