Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 175 



In swampy forest at west base of Mt. Colombo, May 14, 1910, 

 0. E. Jennings, No. 261. General Distribution: From Florida south- 

 wards through the West Indies and South America to Ecuador. 



426. Cissus sicyoides Linnaeus. 



Cissus sicyoides Linn^us, Systema Naturae, II, Ed. X, 1759, p. 897. 



Vitis sicyoides Morales, Monografia de las Ampelideas de Cuba, in Poey, Reper- 



torio Fisico-Natural de la Isla de Cuba, I, 1866, p. 206. 

 Vitis vitiginea var. repens O. Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum, I, 1891, p. 138. 



A low vine with light yellow flowers, in swampy forest at base of 

 Mt. Colombo, May 14, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 26Q; a woody vine 

 climbing to about ten feet over low shrubs at Caleta Grande, May 22, 

 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 463. General Distribution: From Florida 

 and the Bahamas south through tropical America. 



427. Cissus intermedia A. Richard. 



Cissus intermedia A. Richard in Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la 

 Isla de Cuba, X, 1845, p. 128. 



Near Nueva Gerona, April 8, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 438. General 



Distribution: Bahamas, Cuba, the Isle of Pines, Haiti, and Porto 



Rico. 



Family EL^OCARPACE^. 



428. Muntingia Calabura Linnaeus. 

 Muntingia Calabura Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 509. 



Near Nueva Gerona, December 8, 1903 (flowers), and January 8, 

 1904 (fruit), A. H. Curtiss, No. 21$; in rather open scrubby forest 

 near Nueva Gerona, May 9, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 182; near 

 Nueva Gerona, June 12, 1912, G. A. Link. General Distribution: 

 Haiti (Grisebach, "Flora of the British West Indian Islands," 1864, 

 p. 98), the Isle of Pines, Mexico to Brazil. 



The globose fruit, red and about i cm. in diameter is palatable 

 and is said to be eaten by the Spanish inhabitants. 



Family TILIACEiE. 



Key to the Species Enumerated. 



Shrubs, or herbs of shrubby aspect. 



Leaves usually more or less 3-lobed; fruit small, dry, globose, and armed with 



prickles 429. Triumfetta althceoides. 



Leaves not lobed; fruit an elongated capsule without prickles. 



430. Corchorus siliquosus. 

 Trees; leaves not lobed; fruit an obovoid capsule, somewhat obcordate in outline. 



431. Belotia mexicana. 



