MARCH, igoo. PLANTS UTOWAN/E MILLSPAUGH. 69 



CUPANIA AMERICANA Linn. Sp. PI. 200. 



Large umbrageous tree, 40 feet high, left standing in a clearing 

 near San Domingo city (827). 



DODON^EA ANGUSTIFOLIA Blanco Fl. Philip. 1:312. 



At Pagets (67), and Walsingham (85), Bermuda. Leaves 7.5 x i 

 cm., fruit 4-winged, wings 4.5 mm. broad at the apex, 3.8 mm. at the 

 sides. 



DODON^A VISCOSA Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 19. 



Sandy sea-beach north of Georgetown, Grand Cayman ( 264). 

 Leaves oblanceolate pointed 10.5 x 3.3 cm., fruits orbicular-oval 

 2.3 x 2 cm., wings 6 mm. broad above, 5 mm. elsewhere. 



RHAMNACE^:. 



Colubrina Colubrina (Jacq.). Comb. nov. 



C. ferntginosa Brongn. Am. Sc. Nat. 10:369. Plentiful along the 

 sea beach, second line of vegetation. The Creek, Cayman Brae 

 (1150), where it is called " Black Velvet" and is used in infusion in 

 lieu of tea, and along the south shore of the island (1230); shores 

 north of Georgetown, Grand Cayman (1256). 



CEANOTHUS RECLINATUS L'Her. Stert. Angl. 6. 



Colubrina reclinata Brongn. Rhamnus ellipticus Sw. Rocky shores 

 at Cape Corientes, Cuba (1450). Leaves 11-13 x 5-5-7 cm., slightly 

 pubescent beneath, young branches transiently rusty-tomentose. 



Cissus SICYOIDES Linn. Syst. ed. x. 897. 



Two widely differing forms of this species were collected : the 

 first with ovate-cordate blunt, shining, coriaceous leaves .9x9 cm., the 

 margin remotely toothed and the internodes 5.5 cm., at Catano, Porto 

 Rico (186); the other with oblong-lanceolate, pointed, long-toothed 

 leaves 4-6 x 2 cm., and short internodes (C. smilacina Kth. ?) from the 

 center of the Island of Cozumel (1558). 



TILIACE.E. 



TRIUMFETTA SEMITRILOBA Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 22. 



Pagets and Walsingham, Bermuda (46, 94). Leaves all nearly 

 orbicular 7.5 x 7 cm., with a tendency to trilobation at the upper 

 fourth, apical lobe pointed. Outskirts of Charlotte Amalia, St. 

 Thomas (417); lower leaves 8.5 x 7 cm., semitrilobate, the lateral lobes 

 rounded, upper and median leaves lanceolate 5.5 x 2.5 cm. Suburbs 

 of San Domingo (849), similar to the last. Another from like locality 

 (806) has the lower leaves small, 3.5 x 2.5 cm., fully trilobate, densely 

 stellate beneath, the upper leaves larger, 5.5 x 4.5 cm., semilobate. and 

 the long (17 cm.) panicles racemose and nearly aphyllous. Specimens 

 from Caguas, Porto Rico (199), and Port Antonio, Jamaica (888), 

 show little tendency in the leaves to trilobation; lower leaves ovate- 



