MARCH, igoo. PLANTVE UTOWAN^ MILLSPAUGH. 57 



EUPHORBIACE^. 



PHYLLANTHUS CAROLINENSIS Walt. Fl. Carol., 228. 



Paths and old gardens near San Miguel, Cozumel (1487, 1488). 



PHYLLANTHUS NIRURI Linn. Sp. PI. 981. 



Dry sandy banks, walks and roadsides near Caguas (223), Baya- 

 mon (320), and Guanica (729), Porto Rico; Charlotte Amalia, St. 

 Thomas (499, 502); south shores of Culebras Island (1778); Port 

 Antonio, Jamaica (938); Bodden Bay road (1339), and in the center 

 of the island (1363), Grand Cayman; and near San Miguel, Cozumel 

 <i 4 68). 



DRYPETES GLAUCA Vahl. Eclog. 3:49? 



Seaside shrub near Santurce, Porto Rico (265). In our speci- 

 mens, as in those of several South Florida collectors, the leaves 

 are ovate and the margins strongly crenate- dentate with long, sharp 

 holly-like spines terminating the teeth. Our plants being in leaf 

 only, farther discriminating characters are wanting to settle upon 

 the specific nature of this form. 



CROTON ASTROITES Dryand Ait. Hort. Kew. 3: 375. 



Mountain woods back of Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas (372, 

 392, 448, 463), where it is called ''White Maran," and south shores 

 of Culebras Island (605). 



CROTON BALSAMIFER Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 32. 



Hillsides facing the bay of Guanica, Porto Rico (761). 



CROTON BETULINUS Vahl. Symb. Bot. 2:98. 



Old pastures south of Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas (462). 



CROTON CASCARILLA (L.) Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2: 1423. 



Clutia Cascarilla Linn. Dry banks west of Port Antonio, 

 Jamaica (986). Leaves oblong or oblong-spatulate, slightly emargi- 

 nate 2.5 x i cm. 



CROTON CASCARILLA LINEARIS (Jacq.) Griseb. Fl. Br. W. I. 28. 



Croton linearis Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 32. Upper beach of the 

 seashore at the southwest point of Cayman Brae (1217), and at Spot 

 Bay, Grand Cayman (1312). 



Croton Trinitatis nom. nov. 



Geiseleria chamadryfolia Klot. Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2:47. C. 

 chamadryfolius Griseb. Fl. Br. W. I. 41 (1864) non Lam. Ency. 

 2:214 ( I ?86). Both Klotzsch's and Grisebach's names having 

 already been used in this genus, I have returned the species to its 

 original geographic station, the Trinity Islands. Seashore dunes at 

 Santurce, Porto Rico (280). 



CROTON CILIATO-GLANDULOSUS Ortega Hort. Matr. 51. 

 Sea shores east side of Cozumel Island (1593). 



CROTON DISCOLOR Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 582. 



A straggling shrub on the south shores of Culebras Island 



