MARCH, 1900. PLANTS UTOWAN^ MILLSPAUGH. 99 



short-pubescent, the margins of the lobes short-ciliate, bracts as long 

 as the pedicel and constricted lower portion of the calyx-tube. 



Plants 15-30 cm. high, diffusely branched and appearing some- 

 what like G. peduncularis Bth., from which this species clearly dif- 

 fers in its leaves, pedicels, and calyx. Dry, rocky, sun-burnt soils 

 south of the lagoon near Progreso, Yucatan (1702). 



BIGNONIACE.E. 



TECOMA STANS Juss. Gen. 139. 



Borders of woodlands at Caguas, Porto Rico (246); above Char- 

 lotte Amalia, St. Thomas (458), and on the west side of Morro Hill, 

 Santiago de Cuba (1093). 



PITHECOCTENIUM AuBLExii Splitg. in Hcev. & De V. Tijd. 9:12. 



Climbing in high, open trees at Chichen Itza, Yucatan (1638), 

 where the fruits are called X-tabay or " Wood-nymph," on the suppo- 

 sition in fiction that the fairies use the pods as combs for the hair; 

 a use that prevails even to-day among the Indian women. Leaves large, 

 10-12 cm., strongly cordate, the deltoid apex 2 cm. long by 1.5 cm. 

 broad at the base. Fruits 14-20 x 5-7 cm.; seed, including the wings, 

 3-3.5 x 7-8 cm. 



TABEBUIA LEUCOXYLON (Linn.)deC. Bibl. Univ. Genev. 17:131,212. 



Bignonia Linn. Tecoma Mart. Shores of the lagoon at the south- 

 west point of Cayman Brae (1214), and maritime rocks of Spot Bay, 

 Grand Cayman (1361). Agrees with Wright, Cuba, 1339. 



GESNERACE.E. 



RHYTIDOPHYLLUM TOMENTOSUM (Linn.) Mart. Nov. Gen. et. Sp. 3:39. 

 Gesnera Linn. Seaside of Morro Hill, Santiago de Cuba (1072). 



ACANTHACE^:. 



TUBIFLORA SQUAMOSA (Jacq.) Kuntze Rev. Gen. 500. 



Verbena Jacq. Open woods, Chichen Itza, Yucatan (1622). In 

 full flower and appearing like a primrose; flowers pink, large, 7 cm. 

 diam., the appearance of the flower bracts vary greatly on the same 

 plant, one spike having no ciliae at all on the margins of the bracts, 

 another having all the bracts strongly ciliate; plants, as a whole, 

 glabrous; spikes all simple and from the rosulate base. 



THUNBERGIA ALATA Boj. Sims. Bot. Mag. t. 2591. 



Hedgerows, environs of Caguas, Porto Rico (210) and San 

 Domingo city (876); leaves small 4-5 x 2.5-3.5 cm.; sharply hastate, 

 narrow at the sinus; petioles two-thirds the length of the laminae. 

 Rich soil near Port Antonio, Jamaica (970); climbing over hedges 

 near dwellings, leaves varying from reniform to strongly and sharply 

 hastate 6-9 x 4.5-6 cm. 



THUNBERGIA FRAGRANS Roxb. PI. Corom. 1:47. 



Two forms collected on hedgerows near Port Antonio, Jamaica 



