154 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



(Millspaugh) as B. ciibensis. General Distribution: Through the 

 West Indies and Mexico to northern South America. See Plate VI. 



360. Byrsonima Wrightiana Urban & Niedenzu. 



Byrsonima chrysophylla var. lancifolia Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cuben- 



sium, 1866, p. 42. Not B. lancifolia Jussieu, 1843. 

 Byrsonima Wrightiana Urban & Niedenzu, De Genere Byrsonima, II, 1901, p. 19. 



A spreading shrub forming a flattened mat about two feet wide, 

 in pine-barrens near Los Indios, May 17, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 

 328; same data, No. J2Q, forming low shrubby mats about eighteen 

 inches high, on white sandy soil. General Distribution: Cuba and 

 the Isle of Pines. (This is the first collection reported for the Isle of 

 Pines.) 



The leaves of the first-mentioned specimen are narrowly ovate, 

 the largest being 6 cm. long by 2 cm. wide, while the largest of the 

 leaves on the other specimen measure only about 3 cm. long by 6 mm, 

 wide. Otherwise the two collections agree very closely. 



361, Byrsonima verbascifolia (Linnaeus) DeCandolle. 



Malphigia verbascifolia Linn^us, Species Plantarum, Ed. I, 1753, p. 426. 

 Byrsonima verbascifolia DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni 

 Vegetabilis, I, 1824, p. 579. 



Open savanna among palmetto-growth, near Nueva Gerona, May 

 5, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 12; savanna, annually burned over, near 

 Nueva Gerona, May 5, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 26; Blain, Nos. 

 IJ4, 141, and iy2, reported by Millspaugh for the northern part of 

 the island. General Distribution: Isle of Pines, Trinidad, northern 

 South America. 



The specific name verbascifolia is especially well chosen. The 

 plants grow scattered about the open savanna with large mullein- 

 like leaves arising in groups of one to several, rosette-like, from the 

 apex of a short, gnarled, woody stem, which is often prostrate or at 

 least ascending but a few inches above the ground. At a short distance 

 the resemblance to rosettes of Verbascum Thapsiis is particularly 

 striking. 



362. Byrsonima coccolobaefolia Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth. 



Byrsonima coccolobcefolia Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth, Nova Genera et 



Species Plantarum, V, 1822, p. 148. 

 Malphigia coccolobafolia Sprengel, Systema Vegetabilium, II, 1825, p. 384. 



