[Vol. 2 

 48 ' ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



SALVIA SEROTINA L. (S. micrantha Vahl) 



Frequent on the coastal plain and on the plateau: Porto Rico; Hispaniola; 

 Bahamas. 



HYPTIS PECTINATA (L.) Poit. 



Cultivated ground on the coastal plain: Porto Rico; Hispaniola; Bahamas; 

 Curacao. 



SOLANUM NIGRUM L. (8. americanum Mill.) 



Cultivated ground, Sardinera: Porto Rico; Hispaniola; Bahamas; Curacao. 



SOLANUM VERBASCIFOLIUM L. 



Occasional at the bases of cliffs and on the coastal plain: Porto Rico; 

 Hispaniola; Bahamas. 



BRAMIA MONNIERIA (L.) Drake. (Herpestis Monniera HBK.) 

 Border of a pool, Sardinera: Porto Rico; Hispaniola; Bahamas. 



CAPRARIA BIFLORA L. 



Common on the coastal plain and on the plateau: Porto Rico; Hispaniola; 

 Bahamas ; Curacao. 



SCOPARIA DULCIS L. 



In moist soil on the coastal plain: Porto Rico; Hispaniola; Bahamas. 



TABEBUIA HETEROPHYLLA (DC.) Britton. (Raputia (?) heterophylla 

 DC; Tabebuia triphylla DC, not Bignonia triphylla L. ) 

 Frequent on the coastal plain and on the plateau. Leaves 1-foliolate to 



5-foliolate: Porto Rico. 



TABEBUIA LUCIDA Britton, sp. nov. 



A tree up to 5 m. high. Leaves 3-5-foliolate; petioles slender, lepidote, 6 cm. 

 long or less; petiolules of the larger, upper leaflets slender, lepidote, 8-20 mm. 

 long; lower leaflets sessile or nearly so; leaflets thin-coriaceous, narrowly oblong 

 or oblong-oblanceolate, 5-10 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, shining, reticulate-veined and 

 lepidote on both sides, rather abruptly acute or obtusish at the apex, narrowed or 

 obtuse at the base; flowers clustered; pedicels lepidote; calyx about 14 mm. long, 

 2-lipped; corolla pink, glabrous, about 5 cm. long, its cylindric tube 5-6 mm. 

 long, its narrowly campanulate throat about 3 cm. long, its limb about 1.5 cm. 

 long, the lobes nearly entire. 



Limestone cliffs, Sardinera, Mona Island, Porto Rico {Britton, Cowell and Hess, 

 1686). 



SESAMUM ORIENTALE L. 



Cultivated ground, coastal plain. Native of the East Indies. 



BLECHUM BROWNEI Juss. 



Shaded rocks, Sardinera: Porto Rico; Hispaniola; Bahamas. 



JUSTICIA PERIPLOCIFOLIA Jacq. 



Occasional on the coastal plain, a narrow-leaved race: Porto Rico; His- 

 paniola. 



JUSTICIA PECTORALIS Jacq. 



Border of pool, Sardinera: Porto Rico; Hispaniola. 



PLANTAGO MAJOR L. 



Cultivated ground, coastal plain. Not collected. Native of the Old World. 



EXOSTEMA CARIBAEUM (Jacq.) R. & S. 



Frequent on the coastal plain and on the plateau: Porto Rico; Hispaniola; 

 Bahamas. 



RANDIA ACULEATA L. 



Common on the coastal plain and on the plateau: Porto Rico; Hispaniola; 

 Bahamas; Curacao. 



