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above, prominent beneath, the lateral veins numerous, straight ascending; fol- 

 licles (Brace no. 4275 from Acklin's island, the type locality) about 10 cm. 

 long and 12 mm. in diameter; corolla (Brace, Fortune Island) about 2 cm. 

 broad, the slender tube about as long as the lobes. 



Rocky scrub-lands, Acklin's and Fortune Islands. Endemic. Bahama Plumieba. 



4. Plumiera rubra L. Sp. PI. 209. 1753. 



A tree, 5-8 m. high, the young twigs, peduncles and pedicels pubescent. 

 Leaves elliptic-oblong to elliptic-obovate, 1.5-4 dm. long, acute or short-acumi- 

 nate at the apex, narrowed at the base, glabrous on both sides, the lateral veins 

 rather distant and widely spreading, the petioles 3-6 cm. long ; panicles several- 

 many-flowered, mostly shorter than the leaves; pedicels stout, thickened above, 

 1.5-3 cm. long; calyx about 3 mm. long; corolla purple or red, 5-7 cm. broad, 

 the tube rather shorter than the limb, the lobes broadly elliptic, obtuse ; follicles 

 1.5-2.5 cm. long, about 2.5 cm. in diameter. 



Open scrub-lands, Mangrove Cay : Porto Rico to Trinidad ; Jamaica. Jessa- 

 mine. Spanish Jasmine. Red Plumieba. Red Frangipanni. 



5. Plumiera sericifolia C. Wright; Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 171. 1866. 



A small tree, sometimes 5 m. high, the stout twigs pubescent when young. 

 Leaves oblong or oblong-obovate, coriaceous, 7-15 cm. long, emarginate or 

 rounded at the apex, narrowed or obtuse at the base, dark green and glabrous 

 or nearly so above, pale and densely pubescent beneath, the stout pubescent 

 petioles 1-4 cm. long; peduncles stout, pubescent, 1-2.5 dm. long; cymes 

 several-many-flowered ; pedicels about 1 cm. long or less; calyx-teeth very short, 

 broad; corolla white, the sparingly pubescent tube about 1.5 cm. long, the nar- 

 rowly obovate or oblong, obtuse lobes 1.5-2 cm. long; follicles glabrous, 2 dm. 

 long or less. 



Scrub-lands, Inagua : Cuba. Hairy Plumieba. 



2. NEOBKACEA Britton. 



[Bracea Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 448. 1905. Not King. 1898.] 

 A shrub, with thick oblanceolate or oblong petioled leaves. Flowers 

 solitary or two together in the upper axils, white or reddish, peduncled. Calyx 

 deeply 5-cleft, its lobes narrowly lanceolate, acute. Corolla nearly salverform, 

 the short tube slightly and gradually dilated above, about as long as the 5 

 obliquely ovate lobes. Stamens 5, borne near the base of the corolla-tube; 

 filaments short ; anthers sagittate, hairy on the back. Follicles long-linear, 

 slightly torulose. Seeds comose. [In honor of L. J. K. Brace, a diligent 

 collector of the Bahamian flora.] A monotypic genus. 



1. Neobracea bahamensis Britton. 



Bracea bahamensis Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 448. 1905. 



About 1 m. high, with grayish brown branches leafy only near the ends, the 

 young twigs pubescent. Leaves firm in texture, revolute-margined, oblong- 

 oblanceolate, obtuse or slightly emarginate at the apex, narrowed at the base, 

 4-10 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. wide, bright green above, densely and finely tomentose 

 with the veins prominently reticulated beneath; petioles 4-7 mm. long; flowers 

 appearing with the leaves; peduncles tomentose, about 1 cm. long; calyx-lobes 

 tomentose, 3 mm. long; corolla white with a reddish throat, pubescent outside, 

 smooth within, about 2 cm. broad; follicles 15 cm. long or less, 2 mm. thick, 

 pubescent, striate, pendent. 



