SEPT., 1914. EUPHORBIACE.E MILLSPAUGH 389 



Type locality: Santo Domingo, Bertero. Type in herbarium de Can- 

 dolle. 



Distribution: SANTO DOMINGO, Prov. Barahona, Fuertes (F. 385336); 

 Constanza, von Tuerckheim (F. 298607; U. S. 656169). 



CUBA, Wright 13 (F. 409467; Mo. 39410), 547 (F. 409468; Mo. 

 39408), 2014 (F. 409469; Mo. 39407), 2015 (F. 409470; Mo. 39408); 

 Linden 1706, type of Lindeniana (hb. Boissier; hb. deCandolle; hb. 

 Krug & Urban; F. 413582 comm. Urban) ; Pinar del Rio, Shafer 10702 

 (F. 409487; hb. N. Y. Bot. Gard); 10840 (N. Y.; F. 409489), 11093 

 (N. Y.; F. 409490); Santa Clara, Cuesta 248 (N. Y.; F. 409491); 

 Cojimar, Percy Wilson 9532 (N. Y. ; F. 409492), Bro. Leon 1931 

 (N. Y.; F. 409494); Isle of Pines, Pedernales Point, Millspaugh 1436 

 (F. 61436, 196921), 1442 (F. 61442, 196923), 1443 (F. 61443, 

 196922). 



FLORIDA, Biscayne Bay, Palmer (F. 409504; Mo. 39411; hb. 

 Gray), Curtiss (F. 409462); Miami, Garber, type of pergamena 

 (F. 196330-1; U. S. 16179, 22171; Mo. 39416; hb. Gray); East 

 Border of the Everglades, Curtiss (F. 196258-9, 259796, 308418; 

 Mo. 39426; U. S. 22168; hb. Gray; hb. Berlin); near Cutler, Small 

 & Carter (N. Y.; F. 172417, 172448, 185184); near Lemon City, 

 Simpson 523 (F. 258583; U. S. 22162; hb. Gray); near Homestead, 

 Small & Wilson (N. Y.; F. 172585); Sanibel Island, Tracy 7223 

 (F. 101954 badly diseased but doubtless the species). 



Illustrations: Bertol. Misc. Bot. t. 23, f. 3; Boiss, Euph. Icon. t. 19. 



Ghamaesyce monensis sp. nov. 



Perennial, lurid, prostrate from a thick, ligneous rootstalk; stem 

 short, ligneous; branches terete, puberulous, 3-6 cm. swollen at the 

 nodes. Inflorescence solitary, terminal and terminal-axillary. Leaves 

 opposite, ovate to oblong-ovate, 2.5 x 2 to 4x 3 mm., sarcous, closely 

 crispid-puberulous, subcordate, obtuse, the margin crenulo-serrate 

 especially on the upper half; petiole i mm.; stipules triangular, ciliate. 

 Involucres subsessile, campanulate, the outer surface white-crispid- 

 pilose, inner surface smooth with a fold or keel -like band of tissue ex- 

 tending* from the fundus to, and projecting beyond, the base of the 

 sulcus to form a lacerate, ciliate, fifth lobe of the involucre ; lobes lance- 

 olate, ciliate, sarcous; glands transversely oval, greenish, in two pairs, 

 one pair twice the size of the other; appendages none; bracteoles nu- 

 merous, lacerate-plumose ; male and female flowers glabrous, ovary 

 white-crispid-pilose; style pilose, trifid to near the base, the apices of the 

 branches shortly bifid. Capsule short-pilose; seed triangular-ovoid, 

 white, .90 x .70 mm., apex acute, angles sharp, facets plane, transversely 



