76 FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM BOTANY, VOL. 2. 



WALTHERIA INDICA Linn. Sp. PI. 673. 



Dry fields near Catano, Porto Rico (171), dry hillsides about 

 Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas (381, 479) the form with apparently 

 long peduncled flower clusters (W. Americana L.), which are really 

 seminude branchlets. Outskirts of San Domingo (793, 797) leaves 

 5 x 2.5 cm., rounded at the apex. Morrow Hill, Santiago de Cuba 

 (1057, 1073, 1075). Bodden Bay road, Grand Cayman (1325, 1327, 

 1336) the first is the usual branching form, the second is densely 

 leafy, the third simple-stemmed and small (2 x .8 cm.) leaved. Cen- 

 ter of Island Grand Cayman (1382). Rocky scrubland south of the 

 lagoon at Progreso, Yucatan (1705). Plentiful at The Ovens, San- 

 tiago (1118), and a low form at Cape Corientes (1461), Cuba. 



Guazuma Guazuma (Linn.) Comb. nov. 



Theobroma Guazuma Linn. G. tilmtfolia Lam. Roadsides and 

 woodlands beyond San Domingo (786); tree 7 meters high, leaves 

 strongly oblique at the base, 9.5 x 5 cm., fruit 1.6 cm. diameter. 

 Road through the "Ovens," Santiago de Cuba (1114), a small tree, 

 leaves 9.5 x 4 cm., more strongly ovate-lanceolate than in the last; 

 fruits 1.8 cm. diameter. Woodlands throughout Cozumel (1470) 

 counterparts of the first form. 



HELICTERES JAMAICENSIS Jacq. Select. Am. 235. 



Shores of the bay at Guanica, Porto Rico (755); Whitewater Bay r 

 St. Thomas (558), leaves very large, 18 x 10 cm., the lowest often 

 partially abortive-lobed, acuminate, fruit large (5.2 x 1.8 cm.) and 

 downy, apices of the twisted carpids pointed and prominently pro- 

 jecting. The Creek, Cayman Brae (1183), leaves perfect, broadly 

 ovate-lanceolate, 9.5 x 6 cm.; fruit 3 x 1.5 cm., blunt at the tip, /'. e., 

 carpid apices close, not projecting. 



HELICTERES BARUENSIS Jacq. Enum. PL Carib. 30. 



Center of Island Grand Cayman (1370), leaves ovate pointed, 

 9 x 6.5 cm., characteristically olivaceous and smooth above, white- 

 green and densely pubescent beneath. Fruit rusty brown, 4 x 1.5 

 cm., blunt at the apex. 



GUTTIFERACE^:. 



CLUSIA FLAVA Jacq. Enum. PL Carib. 34. 



Open woodlands center of Grand Cayman (1379). Tree 10 me- 

 ters, leaf venation fairly conspicuous beneath. 



COCHLOSPERMACE^E. 



MAXMILIANA HIBISCOIDES (Kunth.) Kuntze. Rev. Gen. 44. 



Gochlospermum hibiscoides Kth. Syn. PL ^Eq. 3:314. Woodlands 

 about Chan 3onot and Chichen Itza, Yucatan (1618). 



TURNERACE^E. 



TURNERA ULMIFOLIA Linn. Sp. PL 271. 



Hillsides and streets about Port Antonio, Jamaica (963, 997); an 



