MARCH, 1900. PLANTVE UTOWAN^E MILLSPAUGH. 89 



CORDIA GERASCANTHOIDES Kunth. H. B. K. , Nov. Gen. et Sp. 3:69. 



Spot Bay, Grand Cayman (1273, 1300), where it is called "Span- 

 ish Elm." 



CORDIA GLOBOSA Kunth., loc. cit. 76. 



A common shrub in the environs of San Domingo (792); and about 

 the shores of Santiago Bay (1008) and Cape Corientes, Cuba. 



CORDIA SEBESTENA Linn. Sp. PI. 190. 



Upper beach and open woodlands Spot Bay, Grand Cayman 

 (1358), the usual elliptical leaved form with sparing dentation. 

 Leaves densely pilose-scabrous 7-8x5-5.5 cm., apiculate, distantly 

 repand denticulate, the calyx tube as long as that of the corolla and 

 unequally 5-dentate. 



The following plants differ materially from the preceding and 

 should be placed under C. speciosa Salisb. Prod. iii. The leaves 

 are large, ovate to ovate lanceolate 12-20x7-13 cm., pointed, points 

 often 2-3 cm. long, irregularly serrate, rounded at the base. The 

 flower clusters in a large spreading corymbiform cyme, the flow- 

 ers larger and longer pedicelled, the corolla tube one-third longer 

 than that of the calyx, the limb spreading to 3.5 cm. Margins of 

 salt lagoons south shore of Cayman Brae (1223); lagoon north of 

 Georgetown, Grand Cayman (1261), and the east shore of Cozumel 

 (1261). 



CORDIA ULMIFOLIA Juss. Dum. Cours. Bot. Cult. 2:148. 



Roadside south of Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas, (536). Shrubby, 

 leaves bicolor, downy beneath, few scattered hairs upon the upper 

 surface, upper half serrate, lower entire. 



TOURNEFORTIA GNAPHALODES R. Br. Prod. 496. 



On the beach line facing the open sea, very seldom, if ever, found 

 in bays or where partially dry reefs guard the shore. Shores near 

 Walsingham and the Flats, Bermuda. On the beach near Santurce, 

 Porto Rico. Open beach north of Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas. 

 Free sea beach south shore of Culebras Island (638), Ratones Island, 

 Port of Ponce", Porto Rico. West beach of Mona Island. Not noted 

 at San Domingo, the coast about there being rocky and steep-to. 

 The Creek, Cayman Brae (1177), where it grows from the crevices of 

 the coral, and is known as "Sea Lavender." Spot and Bodden Bay 

 shores Grand Cayman, also along shores north of Georgetown. Sandy 

 beach at Pedernales Point, Isle of Pines (1429), where it forms dense 

 masses. Shores at Cape Corientes, Cuba. Plentiful along the beach 

 on the east shores of Cozumel. North shore of Yucatan at Progreso 

 (1650), where the shrubs are all small. A few clustered clumps about 

 the center of the west coast of Perez Island (1745), and one shrub 

 only, just appearing, on the south point of Pajaros Island, Alacran 

 Shoals. 



HELIOTROPIUM CURASSAVICUM Linn. Sp. PI. 130. 



Sandy spots at Catano (330) and Guanica (716), Porto Rico. 

 Sandy shores of the bay of Santiago de Cuba (1005), a large, leaved 

 (3-7 x -5 cm.) straggling form, thick stemmed and very leafy, with 



