306 MYETACEAE. 



1. Anamomis longipes (Berg) Britton; Small, Fl. Miami 132. 1913. 



Eugenia longipes Berg, Linnaea 27: 150. 1856. 



A glabrous shrub or small tree up to 4 m. high, the branches slender, 

 erect-ascending, or diffuse. Leaves flat, ovate, oval or oblong-lanceolate, 1-3.5 

 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, shining above, acute or obtuse at the apex, acute or 

 rounded at the base, reticulate-veined, the petioles 1-2 cm. long; peduncles 

 usually 1 -flowered, as long as the leaves or longer, when several-flowered the 

 terminal flower of the cyme long-stalked; calyx-lobes about 2 mm. long; 

 petals orbicular, white or pink, 5-6 mm. long; berry 6-10 mm. in diameter, 

 red, several-seeded. 



Coppices, pine-lands, palmetto-lands and scrub-lands, Abaco, Great Bahama, 

 Andros, New Providence : Florida. Long-stalked Stopper. 



2. Anamomis bahamensis (Kiearsk.) Britton; Small, Fl. Florida Keys 104. 



1913. 



Eugenia bahamensis Kiearsk. Bot. Tidsk. 17: 226. 1890. 



A glabrous shrub, usually straggling or diffusely branched and 1 m. high 

 or less, rarely a small tree. Leaves elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 3-6 cm. long, 

 shining above, dull beneath, rounded or obtuse at the apex, subcordate or 

 rounded at the base, the petioles 2-8 mm. long; leaves of shoots sometimes 

 linear-oblong, 2-3 cm. long, 4-8 mm. wide; peduncles slender, compressed, as 

 long as the leaves or somewhat longer; cymes 3-flowered or flowers solitary; 

 calyx-lobes rounded, about 3 mm. long; petals oblong-orbicular, 5-7 mm. 

 long; berries 8-10 mm. in diameter. 



Coastal rocky plains, scrub-lands, coppices and white-lands, throughout the 

 archipelago from Abaco, the Berry Islands and Andros to South Caicos, Dellis Cay 

 and Inagua. Recorded from Big Pine Key, Florida, apparently erroneously. En- 

 demic. Individual specimens are separable only with difficulty from the preceding 

 species, but typical specimens are widely different. Bahama Stopper. Wild Guava. 



3. Anamomis lucayana Britton, sp. nov. 



A shrub or a small tree up to 6.5 meters high, the bark grayish-white, the 

 young twigs appressed-pubescent to glabrate. Leaves oblong to elliptic, pale 

 green, but darker above than beneath, dull, revolute-margined, obtuse or 

 emarginate at the apex, narrowed at the base, 3-5 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. wide, 

 the midvein impressed above, prominent beneath, the lateral veins few and 

 obscure, the stout petioles 2-4 mm. long; peduncles slender, as long as the 

 leaves or longer, sparingly pubescent or glabrous; cymes 3-7-flowered, the 

 lateral pedicels slender, 1 cm. long or less, each central flower sessile; hy- 

 panthium obconic, glabrate or pubescent, 1.5-2 mm. high; sepals suborbicu- 

 lar, pubescent and ciliate, or nearly glabrous, 2-2.5 mm. wide; petals broadly 

 obovate, 4-5 mm. long; stamens about as long as the petals, the style a little 

 longer; fruit red, subglobose, 7-9 mm. in diameter. 



Scrub-lands and coppices, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera, Cat Island, Great 

 Guana, Great Exuma, Long Island, Crooked Island, Acklin's, North Caicos and the 

 Inaguas : Cuban Cays. Type, Nash & Taylor, 1!,26, Inagua. Referred by Coker as 

 Eugenia punctata Vahl, and by Mrs. Northrop as Myrtus punctata Griseb. The 

 Bahamian record of Eugenia fragrans by Urban (Symb. Ant. 4: 452), probably refers 

 to this species. Pale Stopper. Naked-wood. 



4. PSIDITJM L. Sp. PI. 470. 1753. 



Trees or shrubs with pinnately veined leaves and large, axillary or lat- 

 eral, solitary or clustered flowers. Calyx-tube somewhat prolonged beyond 

 the ovary, its 4 or 5 lobes often united in the bud, irregularly parting at 



