Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 163 



Ricinocarpus chamcedryfolius O. Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum, II, 1891, 

 p. 617. 



Near Nueva Gerona, May 6, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 481. In 

 pine-barrens between Los Indies and the Canada Mts., May 18, 

 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 376; on strand at Caleta Grande, South 

 Coast, May 22, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 501. General Distribution: 

 Cuba, the Isle of Pines, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, 

 St. Croix, and Guadeloupe. 



389. Pera oppositifolia Grisebach. 



Pera oppositifolia Grisebach, Nachrichten Kgl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, 

 Gottingen, 1865, p. 167. 



Northern part of the island, Blain, No. 55 (Millspaugh). General 



Distribution: Western Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



390. Jatropha gossypifolia var. elegatis (Klotzsch) Mueller- Aargau. 



Adenoropium elegans Pohl, Plantarum Brasiliae Icones et Descriptiones Hactenus 



Ineditae, I, 1827, p. 15. 

 Adenoropium gossypifolium Pohl, op. cit., p. 16. 

 Jatropha elegans Klotzsch, in Seemann, Voyage of the Herald, Botany, 1845- 



1851, p. 102. 

 Jatropha gossypifolia Linn^us, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 1006, var. elegans 



Mueller-Aargau, in DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni 



Vegetabilis, XV, (2), 1866, p. 1087. 



Near Nueva Gerona, April 2, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 434. General 

 Distribution: From the Bahamas and southern Mexico south through 

 the West Indies and continental tropical America to Paraguay. 



391. Jatropha glaucovirens Pax & Hofifmann. 

 Jatropha glaucovirens Pax & K. Hoffmann, in Engler, Pflanzenreich, IV, 1910, 



p. 147. 



Near Nueva Gerona, April 22, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 458 {type 

 collection); upper edge of rocky strand along front of ridge at Bibijagua, 

 May 7, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 88; swamp, one mile north of Nueva 

 Gerona, May 8, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 147; near the Majagua 

 River, north of Los Indios, May 19, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, Nos. 661 

 and 680. General Distribution: Isle of Pines. 



This is a sparsely branched shrub about two to four feet high, 

 growing quite commonly in the sandy pine woods, rocky slopes, or 

 even in swampy woods, in nearly every part of the island visited. 



