116 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Family CARYOPHYLLACE.E. 



Key to Species Herein Enumerated. 



Stem and branches slender, weak; leaves orbicular 261. Drymaria cordata. 



Stem and main branches shorter, usually about 10 cm. long, more rigid; leaves 

 narrowly oblanceolate or lance-linear 262. Drymaria ortegioides. 



261. Drymaria cordata (Linnaeus) Willdenow. 

 West Indian Chickweed. 



Holosleum cordalum Linn/EUS, Species Plantarum, I, Ed. I, 1753, p. 88. 

 Drymaria cordata Willdenow, ex Roemer & Schultes, Systema Vegetabilium, V, 



J819, p. 406. 

 Drymaria ramosissima O. Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum, I, 1891, p. 50. 



Near Nueva Gerona, January 12, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 288. 

 General Distribution: West Indies and throughout the tropics gen- 

 erally. 



262. Drymaria ortegioides Grisebach. 



Drymaria ortegioides Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, p. 21. 

 Near Nueva Gerona, February 19 and March 11, 1904, A. H. 



(Curtiss, No. JP7; near Nueva Gerona, February 19, and March 11, 

 1904, 0. E. Jennings, No. jgy; in open fields at Los Indios, May 19, 

 T904, 0. E. Jennings, No. 427. General Distribution: Western 



vCuba and the Isle of Pines. 



Family NYMPH^ACEiE. 

 Key to the Species Enumerated. 



Flowers white 263. Castalia ampla. 



Flowers yellow 264. Nymphaa advena. 



263. Castalia ampla Salisbury. Water Lily. 



Castalia ampla Salisbury, Paradisus Londinensis, I, 1805, t. 14, 73. 



Nymphaa ampla DeCandolle, Regni Vegetabilis Systema Naturae, II, 1821, p. 54. 



Leuconymphcea ampla O. Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum, I, 1891, p. 11. 



In pond southwest of Nueva Gerona, May 7, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. g6; near Nueva Gerona, December 12, 1903, A. H. Curtiss, No. 223. 

 General Distribution: From Cuba and Texas south through the West 

 Indies and continental tropical America. 



264. Nymphaea advena var. erythraea Miller & Standley. 

 Nymphcea advena var. erythrcea Miller & Standley, Contributions U. S. National 

 Herbarium, XVI, Part III, 1912, p. 91. 



In pools in jungle along Los Indios River, at Los Indios, May 20, 



