162 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



May 14, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 244; in pine-barrens near Los 

 Indies, May 19, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. jg2. General Distribution: 

 Widely distributed from Florida and Texas south through tropical 

 continental America and the West Indies. 



This is a highly polymorphous species with many named varieties. 

 The flowers were white in all the specimens seen in the Isle of Pines. 



385. Croton discolor Willdenow. 

 Croton discolor Willdenow, Species Plantarum, IV, 1805, p. 532. 



Northern part of the island, Blain, No. 133 (Millspaugh). General 

 Distribution: Isle of Pines, Hispaniola, St. Thomas, St. Croix, and 

 Porto Rico. 



Note. Croton domingense Vahl, is reported by A. Richard (Sagra, 

 "Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la Isla de Cuba," XI, 1850, 

 p. 213) on the basis of specimens collected by Lanier. 



386. Adelia Ricinella Linnaeus. 



Adelia Ricinella Linn^us, Systema Naturae, II, Ed. X, 1759, p. 1298. 

 Ricinella pedunculosa Mueller-Aargau, Linnaea, XXXIV, 1865, p. 153. 



A small tree at the base of the ridge at Bibijagua, May 7, 1910, 

 O. E. Jennings, No. 122. General Distribution: Greater Antilles, 

 eastward as far as St. Martin. 



387. Caperonia palustris (Linnaeus) St. Hilaire. 



Croton palustris Linn^us, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 1004. 



Caperonia palustris St. Hilaire, Histoire des Plantes les plus Remarquables du 



Bresil et du Paraguay, etc., 1824, p. 245. 

 Caperonia castaneifolia Grisebach, Flora of the British West Indian Islands, 1859, 



p. 43. Not St. Hilaire. 



Near Nueva Gerona, May i, 1904, 0. E. Jennings, No. 476. Gen- 

 eral Distribution: Cuba, the Isle of Pines, Porto Rico, Hispaniola, 

 Guadeloupe, Martinique, Tobago, and from Mexico to Paraguay; 

 also tropical Africa. 



388. Acalypha chamaedryfolia (Lamarck) Mueller-Aargau. 

 Croton chamcedryfolius Lamarck, Encyclopedia Methodique, Botanique, II, 1786, 



p. 214. 

 Acalypha replans Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum Vegetabilium Indiae Occi- 



dentalis, 1788, p. 99. 

 Acalypha chamce dry folia Mueller-Aargau, in DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis 



Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, XV, (2), 1866, p. 879. 



