108 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



The writer adopted Urban's treatment of the Antillean wax myrtles. 

 No essential differences are evident between the specimen from the 

 Isle of Pines and a Porto Rican specimen cited by Urban, Sintenis, 

 No. 5959! See Urban, SymholcE Antillance, IV, 1905, p. 193. 



Family BATIDACE^. 

 238. Batis maiitima Linnaeus. 



Batis maritima Linn^us, Systema Naturae, II, Ed. X, 1759, p. 1380, 

 Dondia linearis Millspaugh, Field Columbian Museum, Botanical Series, II, 

 1900, p. 35. See Urban, Symbolae Antillanae, IV, 1905, p. 227. 



Forms almost the entire ground-cover in spots in the mangrove 

 forest along the lower part of the Nuevas River, May 16, 1910, O. E. 

 Jennings, No. 294. General Distribution: Along the seashores of 

 the West Indies and eastern tropical North America as far north as 

 Texas, Florida, and the Bahamas, also California and the Hawaiian 

 Islands. 



Family MORACE^. 



Key to the Species Enumerated. 



Leaves large, peltate, palmately lobed, whitish-tomentose beneath. 



239. Cecropia peltata. 

 Leaves not peltate, blades entire, not tomentose. 

 Leaves subcordate to cordate at base. 



Leaves 10 cm. or more long; fruit pubescent and 1.5 cm. or more in diameter. 



240. Ficus mitrophora. 

 Leaves about 3-6 cm. long; Iruit glabrous and hardly i cm. in diameter. 



241. Ficus populnea var. lentiginosa. 

 Leaves obtuse to narrowed at base. 



Leaves acuminate at the base, about 4-8 cm. long 242. Ficus nitida. 



Leaves obtuse at base, about 6-12 cm. long 243. Ficus aurea. 



239. Cecropia peltata Linnaeus, 



Cecropia peltata Linn^us, Systema Naturae, II, Ed. X, 1759, p. 1286. 

 Ambaiba peltata O. Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum, II, 1891, p. 623. 



In open spot in jungle near Los Indios, May 20, 1910, 0. E. Jen- 

 nings, No. 443. A. Richard (Sagra, "Historia Fisica Politica y 

 Natural de la Isla de Cuba," XI, 1850, p. 222) reports this species 

 for the Isle of Pines on the basis of the Lanier Collection, 1831, Gen- 

 eral throughout the West Indies, and in Venezuela and Guiana. 



