FEB., 1906. PR^ENUNC. BAHAM. MILLSPAUGH. 167 



Eleuthera Palmetto Sound, Hitchcock. 



Cat Island Port Howe, Hitchcock. 



Crooked Island Hitchcock. 



Inagua N. 6 T. 1060, 1062 with very small leaves; Hitchcock.* 



Grand Turk Island N. & T. 37S9- 



Hamelia patens Jacq. 



Waste grounds near habitations. This habitat, and the absence of 

 the species from other islands, place it as a doubtless escape from culti- 

 vation. 



New Providence Lake Cunningham, B. 6 Br. 635; Bluebeard's 

 Tower, Coker 127 ; Nassau, Northrop 40; Wight 143. 



Catesbaea campanulata La Sagra. 



C. parviflora septentrionalis Urb. In coppices and scrub lands: 

 New Providence Brace 167. 

 Crooked Island Hitchcock (C. parviflora). See remarks on Grand Turk 



Specimen below. 

 Inagua N. 6 T. 1272. 

 Grand Turk Island N. iSr 3 T. 377 f. This is a low, scrubby specimen 



having no spines developed upon the short new shoots. It appears 



to be a depauperate mutant with narrower and more revolute leaves and 



smaller seeds than the typical form. 



Catesbaea fasciculata Northrop. 



In sandy coppices and whitelands: 

 Abaco Eight Mile Bay, Brace 1852. 

 Little Harbor Cay B. & M. 2226. 

 Great Harbor Cay B. 6 M. 

 Andros Fresh Creek, Northrop 627 type. 

 New Providence scrublands along West Bay Street Road, Britton 83; 



Millsp. 2162 ; coppice at Winton, E. G. B. 32^2 ; whitelands near 



Race Course and Miller's, B. 6 Br. 284, 529. 

 Green Cay maritime beach, Coker 247. 

 Ship Channel Cay B. & M. 2750. 

 Wide Opening, Cay north of B. & M. 

 Great Guana Cay B. & M. 



Catesbaea spinosa Linn. 



Sandy open lands: 

 Andros at Fresh Creek, Northrop 624. Known as "PRICKLY APPLE." 



*Prof. Hitchcock observes on p 03 PI. Bah.: "The Jnagua specimens are spineless and have 

 small leaves about 7 mm. long." The Nash & Taylor specimens have such leaves and also spines. 



