RUB I ACE AE. 417 



2-8 cm. long, acute, acuminate or bluntish at the apex, narrowed at the base, 

 the midvein prominent, the lateral veins few and obscure, the slender petioles 

 4-12 mm. long; racemes Beveral-many-fiowered, as long as the , or 



longer, or shorter; corolla 5-lobed nearly to the middle, yellow, (j-9 mm. long; 

 drupes bright white, orbicular, 5-8 mm. broad. 



Coppices, scrub-lauds and pine-lands, throughout the archipelago from Ab 

 Great Bahama and Andros to Mariguana. North Caicos and Inagua : Florida; \\v-t 

 Indies; continental tropical America. Consists of many races differing in size of 

 corolla, shape of leaves and with calyx-teeth deltoid to deltoid-lanceolate, the anther 

 tips either included or somewhat exserted beyond the corolla-tube. West Indian 



SXOWBEliKY. SXAKEROOT. 



2. Chiococca pinetoram Britton; ilillsp. Field Mus. Bot. 2: 171. 1906. 



A vine, creeping or low-climbing, sometimes 1.5 m. long, usually shorter. 

 Branches short; leaves ovate, lanceolate or elliptic, small, 2-4.5 cm. long, 

 varying from acute to obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base, coriaceous, 

 dark green and shining above, paler and dull beneath, the midvein impressed 

 on the under side, the lateral veins few and obscure, the petiole slender, 2-3 

 mm. long; racemes few-flowered, shorter than the leaves or about equalling 

 them; pedicels about as long as the calyx, or sometimes a little longer; calyx 

 campanulate 2 mm. long; corolla funnelform-eampanulate, about 5 mm. long, 

 white or purple changing to yellow; berry white, somewhat compressed, 4-6 

 mm. in diameter. 



Pine-lands and scrub-lands, Abaco. Great Bahama, Andros, New- Providence, Cat 

 Island and YVatling's : Florida. Pineland SNOWBEitiiY. 



13. SCOLOSANTHUS Vahl, Eclog. 1: 11. 1796. 



Shrubs, often spiny, with opposite petioled coriaceous leaves, and small 

 or minute, axillary, solitary or clustered, peduncled flowers. Calyx-tube short, 

 the limb 4-cleft, the lobes narrow. Corolla small, funnelform, its 4 short 

 spreading lobes imbricated. Stamens 4, included, the filaments filiform, the 

 anthers linear. Ovary 2-celled; style slender, pilose; stigma notched or 2- 

 cleft; ovules solitary in each ovary-cavity, pendulous. Fruit a small drupe. 

 [Greek, curved flower, of no obvious application.] About 7 species, natives of 

 the West Indies. Type species: Scolosanthus versicolor Vahl. 



1. Scolosanthus bahamensis Britton, Bull. X. Y. Bot. Card. 3: 452. 1905. 



An intricately branched, somewhat resinous shrub, 8 dm. high or leas, 

 with gray-brown bark, the young twigs greenish, densely papillose, 4-angled, 

 armed with slender scattered pungent solitary spines 1 cm. long or less. 

 Leaves opposite or fascicled, 2-5 mm. long, thick, papillose, ovate to elliptic, 

 revolute-margined, obtuse, very short-petioled, dark green above, paler beneath; 

 flowers not seen; fruits solitary, oblong to globose, white, soft, 2-4 mm. long. 



Coppices and pine -lands, Andros, New Providence and Cat Island. Endemic. 

 Bahama Scor.osANTiirs. 



14. STRUMPFIA Jacq. Enum. 8, 28. 1760. 



A low, much-branched shrub, with linear, revolute-margined, coriaceous, 

 very short-petioled leaves verticillate in .1 's, and crowded near the en. is of the 

 short-jointed branches, the small white (lowers in short axillary racemes, the 

 small stipules persistent, ('alvx ovoid, the limb 5-cleft, the lobes persistent. 

 Corolla deeply 5-cleft, the lobes lanceolate, imbricated, the tube very short. 

 Stamens 5, borne at the base of the corolla tube ; filaments short, slightly 



