Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 193 



General Distribution: Cuba, the Isle of Pines, Jamaica, and from 

 Panama to Guiana and Brazil. 



The various species of Casearia, particularly C. sylvestris, form, as 

 to numbers, quite a prominent part of the forest on the lower slopes 

 and around the bases of the limestone ridges in the northern part 

 of the island. 



Flacourtia inermis Roxburgh, Hortus Bengalensis, 1814, p. 73, 

 is represented by Blain, No. 121, reported by Millspaugh {Field 

 Columbian Museum, Bot. Series, I, 1900, p. 431) and Blain's note is. 

 added: "An introduced tree. ^Blain." 



Family TURNERACE.^. 



Key to thk Species Enumerated. 



Peduncles slender, axillary, not united with the petiole; stem usually with stellate 

 pubescence (Piroqueta). 



Leaves sharply serrate, lance-ovate; hairs viscid 478. Piroqueta viscosa. 



Leaves obscurely denticulate-serrate, lance-linear; hairs not viscid. 



477. Piroqueta cisloides. 

 Peduncles short and apparently arising from the apex of the petiole; usually little 

 or no stellate pubescence (Turnera). 

 Annuals, low, the lower branches spreading and often procumbent; leaves 



with no glands 479. Turnera Pumilea. 



Shrubby, branches tending towards erect; two glands on petiole immediately 

 below base of blade 480. Turnera ulmifolia. 



477. Piroqueta cistoides (I-innaeus) Meyer. 



Turnera cistoides 'Lin'nmvs, Species Plantarum, I, Ed. II, 1762, p. 387. 



Piroqueta cistoides Meyer, ex Steudel, Nomenclator Botanicus, II, Ed. II, 1841^ 



P- 344- 

 Piroqueta longifoUa Bello, Anales Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural, I,. 



1881, p. 275. 

 Piroqueta villosa CooK & Collins, Contributions U. S. National Herbarium, VIII, 



1903, p. 220. 



Near Nueva Gerona, May 12, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 4q6; in 



pine-barrens, near Majagua River, north of Los Indios, May 19, 



1 9 10, 0. E. Jennings, No. 404. Flowers golden-yellow. General 



Distribution: Throughout the West Indies and American continental 



tropics. 



478. Piroqueta viscosa Grisebach. 



Piroqueta viscosa Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, p. 114. 



Pine-barrens at Los Indios, May 19, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. jpj. 



Included also in the printed list of plants collected in the Isle of 



