Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 179 



435. Sida angustifolia Lamarck. 

 Sida angtislifolia Lamarck, Encyclopedic Methodique, Botanique, I, 1783, p. 4. 



Near Nueva Gerona, May 6, 1904, A. H. Ctirtiss, No. 482. This 

 has been considered by Urban to be merely a variety of Sida spinosa 

 Linnaeus (Urban, Symbolcs Antillance, IV, 1910, p. 389). It probably 

 has about the same distribution as the latter, extending northward, 

 however, to Texas and Arizona. 



436. Sida acuta Burmann. 



Sida acuta Burmann, Flora Indica, 1768, p. 147. 



Sida carpinifolia Linn^us, fil., Supplementum Plantarum, 1781, p. 307. 

 Sida Balbisiana DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, 

 I, 1824, p. 460. 



Near Nueva Gerona, March 25, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 430; 

 forming mats on the grounds at the back of the Nueva Gerona Hotel, 

 May 7, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 12/'; G. A. Link, Nueva Gerona, 

 May 31, 1912. General Distribution: Widely distributed in the 

 tropics, extending north in America to the Bermudas, Florida, and 

 Alabama. 



The flowers are yellow, and in the vicinity of Nueva Gerona, at 



least, the bases of the branches are quite decumbent, mats thus being 



formed. 



437. Sida cordifolia Linnaeus. 



Sida cordifolia Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 684. 



Sida conferta Link, Enumeratio Plantarum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis, II, 



1822, p. 207. 

 Sida portoricensis Sprexgel, Sj'stema Vegetabilium, III, 1826, p. in. (Ex 



Garcke.) 



Northern part of the island, Blain, No. 102 (Millspaugh) ; near 



Nueva Gerona, December 25, 1903, A. H. Curtiss, No. 253; on savanna, 



south of Sante Fe, May 25, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 616. General 



Distribution: In sand, usually near the coast, southern Florida, the 



West Indies, continental tropical America, and the tropics of the 



Old World. 



438. Sida hederaefolia Cavanilles. 



Sida hedercBfolia Cavanilles, Monadelphiae Classis Dissertationes Decern, I, 1785, 

 p. 8, PL IX, fig. 3. 



Near Nueva Gerona, February 27, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 372; 

 northern part of the island, Blain, No. 41 (Millspaugh). General 

 Distribution: The Bahamas, Cuba, the Isle of Pines, Porto Rico, and 

 Hispaniola. 



