

80 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 



1.4 nun. wide. Seed obovoid-ellipsoid, 1.8 nun. long, appressed- 

 pilose. Aril 1.3 nun. long, with small umbo and linear lateral 

 lobes. Griseb.! Cat. PL Cub. 13 (1800); Chod. Monog. ii. 150. 

 t. 20. f. 34-35 (1893). Cuba: Cachillas de Baracoa, 14 May, and 

 San Marcos, 22 August, Wright 1911 (type coll.: BGK); grassy 

 places, barren savannas, S. E. of Holguin, Oriente, 20-29 Nov. 

 L909, Shafer 2943 (G). T. 2. Fig. 55. Chodat's fig. 35 (t. 20) 

 does not well represent the seed of this species. 



98. P. spathulata Griseb. Stems many, herbaceous from a 

 woody base, slender, spreading, angulate, minutely roughened on 

 the angles, otherwise glabrous, simple or branched, 4-28 cm. long. 

 Leaves all in whorls of 4, shorter than the internodes, spatulate- 

 obovate, mucronate at the rounded apex, cuneate at base, slightly 

 glandular-denticulate on the barely revolute margin, punctate, 1- 

 nerved, green and glabrous both sides, 3.5-9 mm. long, 2-6 mm. 

 wide, the petioles very short. Racemes terminating stems and 

 branches, 4-10-flowered, subsessile or very shortly peduncled; 

 bracts persistent, spreading, ovate-attenuate, 0.5 mm. long; pedi- 

 cels about 0.2 mm. long. Flowers 2.8 mm. long. Upper sepal oval, 

 obtuse, 1.2 mm. long, the lower ovate, obtusish, 1 mm. long, each 

 bearing 2-3 pairs of pedicelled glands on margin, glandular-lineate 

 on back. Wings obovate-oblong, whitish, green-veined, acutish, 

 short-clawed, 2.8 mm. long, 1.3 mm. wide, bearing a few micro- 

 scopic cilia on margin, obscurely glandular-lineate on back. Keel 



2.5 mm. long; crest of 3 pairs of simple or 2-3-fid oblong lobes. 

 Upper petals oval, undulate at apex, 2 mm. long. Capsule elliptic, 

 2 mm. long, 1.3 mm. wide. Seed 2.1 mm. long, appressed subsilky- 

 pilose. Aril 1.3 mm. long; umbo very minute; lateral lobes oblong, 

 rounded at tip, appressed, scarious. Griseb.! Cat. PL Cub. 13 

 (1866); Chod. Monog. ii. 134. t. 20. f. 8-10 (1893). Cuba: 

 banks among tall grass in savannas, San Juan de Buenavista, 

 Wright 1910 (type coll. : BGK) ; open places, Baracoa, Oriente, 

 Feb.-Mar. 1910, Shafer 3989 (G). Bahamas: Northrop 402 (K); 

 Britton & Millspaugh 3130 (K); Great Bahama: Eight Mile 

 Rocks, Feb. 1905, Britton & Millspaugh 2369 (G). T. 2. Fig. 56. 



99. P. crucianelloides DC. Stem slender, erect, branched 

 above, angled, slightly puberulous, 1.5-2.5 dm. high, the branches 

 often opposite. Leaves mostly in whorls of 5, rhomboidal, angled, 

 revolute, glabrous, eglandulose, scarcely mucronate, 6-7 mm. long, 



