110 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



bearing the name of "Spanish Laurel." There is a fine row of these 

 trees to be seen along the side of the plaza in the old town of Sante Fe. 



243. Ficus aurea Nuttall. 

 Ficus aurea Nuttall, Sylva, II, 1854, p. 4. 



Growing as a parasite on a deciduous tree, probably Bombax emar- 

 ginata, near the old marble quarry, at the eastern base of the Caballos 

 Mts., May 9, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 152. (Plate XII.) Near 

 Nueva Gerona, May 10, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 655- General 

 Distribution: Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, Isle of Pines, Grand Cayman, 

 Haiti, and Jamaica (Fawcett and Rendle, Flora of Jamaica, III, 

 1914, p. 49). 



Note. The Bread-fruit, Artocarpus incisa Forster, has been col- 

 lected in the Isle of Pines {Jared F. Shafer, March, igio), but is 

 probably not naturalized there. 



Family POLYGON ACE^. 



Key to the Species in the Isle of Pines. 



A smooth herb, 0.5-1.5 m. high, with slender-pointed lanceolate leaves. 



244. Polygonum glabrum. 

 A climber, shrubby below, the peduncle ending in a branched tendril. 



245. Antigonum leptopus. 

 Shrubs or trees. 



Leaves large, roundish to reniform 246. Coccolobis uvifera. 



Leaves oval to elliptic or somewhat oval-orbicular. 



Leaf-apex obtuse to retuse, the base narrowed to the petiole; fruiting 



pedicels not over 1.5 mm. long 247. Coccolobis retusa. 



Leaf-apex acute to obtuse, the base usually obtuse; fruiting pedicels 2.5-4 

 mm. long 248. Coccolobis laurifolia. 



244. Polygonum glabrum Willdenow. 



Polygonum glabrum Willdenow, Species Plantarum, II, 1799, p. 447- 



Polygonum truncatum A. Richard, in Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de 

 la Isla de Cuba, XI, 1850, p. 182. 



Polygonum porloricense Bertero, MS., ex Endlicher, Genera Plantarum, Supple- 

 ment IV, part 2, 1847, p. 47. 



Polygonum densiflorum var. imberbe Meissner, DeCandolIe, Prodromus Systematis 

 Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis XIV, i, 1856, p. 121. 



Northern part of the island, Blain, No. log. Reported by Mills- 

 paugh'(Field Columbian Museum, Publication 48, Botanical Series, I, 

 1900, p. 427). General Distribution: From Missouri to the Gulf 

 States, and in the tropics generally. 



