20 Britton: Studies of West Indian plants 



Florida; Jamaica; Hispaniola; Porto Rico; recorded from St. Kitts; 

 Mexico and Central America. 



1 8. Passiflora multiflora L. Sp. PI. 956. 1753 



Type locality: Near Port de Paix, Santo Domingo. 



Distribution: Rocky banks and coastal thickets, Oriente, 

 Camaguey, Santa Clara, Pinar del Rio, Isle of Pines: Florida, 

 Bahamas; Hispaniola to Tortola; recorded from Costa Rica. 



19. Passiflora holosericea L. Sp. PI. 958. 1753 



Passiflora reticulata C. Wright; Sauvalle, Anales Acad. Habana 6: 



96. 1869. 



Type locality: Vera Cruz [Mexico]. 



Distribution: Rocky hillsides and coastal thickets, Matan- 

 zas, Pinar del Rio: Mexico. 



20. Passiflora dasyadenia Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 328. 1902 



Type locality: Near El Aji [Oriente]. 



Distribution: Type locality and collected also on the Sierra 

 de Anafe, Pinar del Rio {Wilson & Leon 11534); flowers of both 

 the Oriente and the Pinar del Rio plant are unknown. 



2 1 . Passiflora 



A high climbing, sparingly pubescent vine. Petioles slender, 

 2-4 cm. long, bearing 2 small glands below the middle; leaves 

 subchartaceous, deeply 3-lobed, subtruncate at base, 10 cm. long 

 or less, the oblong lobes 1-3 cm. wide, acute, dentate, loosely 

 reticulate- veined . 



Coastal plain, San Juan, Isle of Pines (Britton & Wilson 15476). 



Passiflora incarnata L. of eastern continental North America 

 is recorded by A. Richard (Sagra, Hist. Cub. 10: 289) as having 

 been found in Cuba, but I have no other evidence of its occurrence 

 there. 



56. RONDELETIA IN CUBA 



Type species: Rondeletia americana L. 



A. Capsule globose to globose- pyriform. 



1. Inflorescence terminal or terminal and axillary. 

 a. Twigs strigose. 



Cymes several-many-flowered; leaves elliptic to 



ovate-elliptic, 3-8 cm. long. 1. R. odorata. 



