166 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



The fruit of this tree is of about the size of a small orange, finally 

 becoming dry and bursting apart with much force. The seeds rattle 

 about in the dry fruit, hence the name "Sand-box Tree." The trees 

 are fairly large, with a spreading crown, so that they are of consider- 

 able value as shade trees, and are so used in some of the West Indian 



islands. 



398. Sebastiana corniculata (Vahl) Pax. 



Sebastiana corniculata Mueller-Aargau, in DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis 

 Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, XV, (2), 1866, p. 1168. 



Variety tragioides (Martius) Pax. 

 Cnemidostachys tragioides Martius, Nova Genera et Species Plantarum, 1,1 1824, 



p. 70. 

 Microstachys Vahlii A. Richard, in Sagra, Historia Fisica Politica y Natural de la 



Isla de Cuba, XI, 1850, p. 202. 

 Microstachys corniculata Grisebach, Flora of the British West Indian Islands, 



1864, p. 49. 

 Sebastiana corniculata var. tragioides Pax, in Engler, Piianzenreich, IV, (147, IV), 



1912, p. 98. 



Near Nueva Gerona, January i and May 8, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, 

 No. 266; side of arroyo, pine-barrens, Los Indios, May 17, 1910, 

 0. E. Jennings, No. 330; in low place along the Majagua River near 

 Los Indios, May, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 405a. General Distri- 

 bution: Cuba, the Isle of Pines, Haiti, Columbia, Guiana, and Brazil. 



Millspaugh reports Blain, No. iii to be Sebastiana corniculata {Cf. 

 Field Columbian Museum, Bot. Ser., I, 1900, p. 429). 



399. Gymnanthes lucida Swartz. Poisonwood. 



Gymnanthes lucida Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum Vegetabilium Indiae Occi- 



dentalis, 1788, p. 96. 

 Exccecaria lucida Swartz, Flora Indiae Occidentalis, II, 1800, p. 1122. 

 Sebastiana lucida Mueller-Aargau, in DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis 



Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, XV, (2), 1866, p. 1181. 



Near Nueva Gerona, May 31, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. SiS. Gen- 

 eral Distribution: Southern Florida, the Bahamas, and West Indian 

 islands as far east as Guadeloupe. 



400. Chamaesyce brasiliensis (Lamarck) Small. 



Euphorbia brasiliensis Lamarck, Encyclopedie Methodique, Botanique, II, 1786, 



P- 423- 

 ChamcBsyce brasiliensis Small, Flora of the Southeastern U. S., 1903, p. 712. 



Near Nueva Gerona, December 19, 1903, A. H. Curtiss, No. 244; 



