Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 121 



Cakile cubensis Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth, Nova Genera et Species Plan- 



tarum, V, 1821, p. 75. 

 Cakile lanceolata subsp. domingensis O. E. Schultz, in Urban, Symbolae Antillanae, 



III, 1903, pp. 505-506. 



On coral sand along strand at Caleta Grande, South Coast, May 22, 

 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 504. General Distribution: Bermuda, the 

 Bahamas, most of the West Indian islands, and Colombia. 



Family DROSERACE^. 

 276. Drosera capillaris Poiret. 



Drosera capillaris Poiret, Encyclopedic Methodique Dictionnaire de Botanique, 



VI, 1804, p. 299. 

 Drosera brevifolia var. major Hooker, Journal of Botany, I, 1834, p. 194. 



Along moist bank of arroyo east of Los Indios, May 18, 1910, 

 0. E. Jennings, No. 372. General Distribution: Around ponds and 

 similar habitats from South Carolina to Florida and Texas; Cuba; 

 Isle of Pines; British Honduras; Trinidad; and British Guiana. 



Family ROSACEA. 

 Key to the Species Herein Enumerated. 



Leaves oval to obovate or orbicular, smooth; drupe obovoid with a sharply angled 

 stone 277. Chrysobalanus pellocarpus. 



Leaves ovate-oblong, abruptly acuminate, pubescent, especially beneath; fruit 

 oblong, without a sharply ridged stone 278. Hirtella mollicoma. 



277. Chrysobalanus pellocarpus Meyer. Coco-plum. 



Chrysobalanus pellocarpus Meyer, Primitiae Florae Essequeboensis, 1818, p. 193. 

 Chrysobalanus icaco var. pellocarpa DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis 



Regni Vegetabilis, II, 1825, p. 525. 

 Chrysobalanus icaco var. minor A. Richard, in Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y 



Natural de la Isla de Cuba, X, 1845, p. 237. 



Near Nueva Gerona, January 9 (fruit), February 27 (flowers), 

 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 280; along bank of arroyo near Nueva Gerona, 

 May 5, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. g. A shrub about ten feet high 

 and bearing an abundance of fruit, which is sweet, and is prepared 

 with sugar as a conserve in some of the West Indian islands. General 

 Distribution: Low ground from southern Florida through the West 

 Indies to northern South America. 



This is probably the same as the specimen collected by A. H. 

 Lanier in 1831 and described by A. Richard, in Sagra, "Historia 

 Fisica, Politica y Natural de la Isla de Cuba,'.' X, 1845, p. 237, as 



