96 FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM BOTANY, VOL. 2. 



Biologia Central! Americana, with having gathered it in "Yucatan 

 and Tabasco." 



MESOSPH^RUM PECTINATUM (Linn.) Kuntze loc. cit. 



Nepeta p. Linn. Hyptis p. Poit. A weed in old fields at Caguas, 

 Porto Rico (205, 239, 240); south of Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas 

 (399). Fields and copses about San Domingo (829), a large growth 

 with panicles over a meter in length. Base of Morro Hill, San- 

 tiago de Cuba (1078). Fields common along Bodden Bay road, 

 Grand Cayman (1341). Environs of San Miguel (1477), and old 

 fields inland (1549) Cozumel, where it is termed in Maya "Xolt- 

 xnuc," or "Old Woman's Staff." 



MESOSPH^RUM SUAVEOLENS (Linn.) Kuntze loc. cit. 



Ballota s. Linn. Hyptis s. Poit. Old fields near Charlotte 

 Amalia, St. Thomas (496), leaves ovate-cordate, simply serrate, 2.5- 

 3.5 x 1.5 X3 cm., petioles the length of the blade, densely large-flow- 

 ered. Coco groves at The Creek, Cayman Brae (1154), loosely 

 floral, leaves hairy, 2.5-3x2.2-2.8 cm., doubly-serrate, stems and 

 branches pilose. The plant is here called "Spikenard." 



OCIMUM MICRANTHUM Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 630. 



Rich soil at Catano, Porto Rico (190). Suburban fields of 

 Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas (508); roadsides near Port Antonio, 

 Jamaica (971); old fields near Spot Bay, Grand Cayman (1266); opens 

 near San Miguel, Cozumel, where it is called "Cac-al-tun," signify- 

 ing in Maya a plant from which it is a wearying task to strip the 

 leaves; application indeterminable. 



OCIMUM SANCTUM Linn. Mant. 1:85. 



Steep dry hillside at Guanica, Porto Rico (689), profusely bloom- 

 ing and fruiting. 



SOLANACE.E. 



PHYSALIS ANGULATA Linn. Sp. PI. 183. 



Roadsides at Guanica, Porto Rico (699), and the south shore of 

 Culebras Island (586). 



PHYSALIS PUBESCENS Linn. loc. cit. 



Ditches along roadways near Port Antonio, Jamaica (937). 



CAPSICUM FRUTESCENS Linn. loc. cit. 189. 



Old garden spot at Pedernales Point, Isle of Pines (1423). 



SOLANUM ACULEATISSIMUM Jacq. Coll. I:IOO. 



Waste grounds at Port Antonio, Jamaica (903). 



SOLANUM AMAZONIUM Ker-Gawl. Bot. Reg. t. 71. 



A tall shrubby form at the Caleta, Cozumel (1514), low and 

 dwarfed in the stony scrubland south of Progreso, Yucatan (1694). 



SOLANUM BAHAMENSE Linn. Sp. PI. 188. 



Scrublands near Pedernales Point, Isle of Pines (1445). 



SOLANUM CALLICARP^FOLIUM Kth. & Bouch. Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1853. 

 Stony scrubland south of Progreso, Yucatan (1702, 1719). 



