Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 151 



marble mountains and hills in the northern part of the island, but 

 since taken out for its valuable timber. However, A. Richard in 

 Sagra (" Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la Isla de Cuba," X, 

 1845, p. 126) says with regard to the distribution of the species: 

 "Crescit in locis elevatis insulae Cubse, nee non insulse Pinorum." 



353. Trichilia hiita Linnaeus. 



Trichilia hirta Linn^us, Systema Naturae, II, Ed. X, 1759, p. 1020. 

 Trichilia spondioides Jacquin, Enumeratio Plantarum, 1760, p. 20. 



Near Nueva Gerona, January 27, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. j/5, 

 tree, 30 feet high, at base of Bibijagua ridge. May 7, 1910, 0. E. 

 Jennings, No. 116 (in fruit); lower western slope of Casas Mts., May 

 12, 1 910, in flower, 0. E. Jennings, No. 220; A. H. Lanier, in 183 1 

 (A. Richard, in Sagra, "Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la Isla 

 de Cuba," X, 1845, p. 123). General Distribution: Greater Antilles, 

 St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. Jan, Grenada, Mexico, and Colombia. 



354. Trichilia havanensis Jacquin. 



Trichilia havanensis Jacquin, Selectarium Stirpium Americanarum Historia, 1763, 



p. 129, PI. 175. 

 Trichilia glabra Linn^us, Systema Naturae, Ed. XIII, 1768, p. 214. 



Reported for the Isle of Pines by Achille Richard, in Sagra, "His- 

 toria Fisica, Politica y Natural de la Isla de Cuba," X, 1845, p. 124, 

 based upon specimens collected on the island, in 1831, by A. H. Lanier. 

 General Distribution: Cuba, the Isle of Pines, and Central America, 



355. Swietenia Mahagoni Jacquin. Mahogany. 

 Swietenia Mahagoni Jacquin, Enumeratio Plantarum, 1760, p. 20. 



Mahogany, ranging from the Florida Keys and Bahamas south- 

 wards through the West Indies, and from Mexico to Peru, is reported 

 ("The Gem of the Caribbean," I. A. Wright, 1909, p. 10) as among 

 the various valuable hardwoods on the coralline limestone along the 

 South Coast. No specimens, however, appear to have been preserved 

 by any botanical collector. 



Family MALPHIGIACE^. 



Key to the Species Enumerated. 



Small tree with paniculate flowers; the leaves acute or acuminate, and, when 



mature, glabrous, or nearly so, and shining above 357. Banisteria laurifolia. 



Flowers racemose or in axillary, short-peduncled cymes; leaves more or less densely 

 pubescent, or else not much acuminate. 



