198 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Leaves ovate, somewhat glandular, but hardly pubescent. 



494. Parsonsia Grisebachiana. 

 Leaves lance-oblong to ovate, minutely glandular, and also scabrous- 

 pubescent 4Q3. Parsonsia micrantha. 



490. Ammania auriculata var. arenaria f. brasiliensis (St. Hilaire) 



Koehne. 

 Ammania senegalensis var. brasiliensis St. IIilaire, Flora Brasiliensis, III, 1833, 



p. 135. PI. 187. 

 Ammania auriculata var. arenaria i. brasiliensis Koehne, in Engler's Pflanzen- 



reich, IV (216), 1903, p. 46. 



Near Nueva Gerona, December 19, 1903, A. 11. Curtiss, No. 245. 

 General Distribution: From Nebraska to Louisiana and New Mexico 

 and south to Brazil; Cuba, the Isle of Pines; and Africa. 



491. Ammania latifolia Linnaeus. 



Ammania latifolia Linn^us, Species Plantarum, I, Ed. I, 1753, p. 119. 



Isnarda subhastata Ruiz & Pavon, Florae Peruvianae et Chilensis Prodromus, I, 



1798, p. 66, PI. 86, fig. b. 

 Ammannia ramosior Elliott, Sketch of the Botany of South Carolina and Georgia, 



I, 1821, p. 219. 

 Ammania lingulata Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, p. 106. 



Between Bogarona and Caleta Grande, on coralline-limestone soil, 

 May 22, 1910, 0. E. Jemiings, No. 4^2. General Distribution: 

 From the Bahamas and the northern shores of the Gulf of Mexico 

 south through the West Indies and continental tropical America. 



492. Parsonsia Melanium Linnaeus. 



Lyihrum Melanium Linn^us, Systema Naturae, Ed. X, 1759, p. 1045. 



Cuphea Melanium. R. Brown, in Steudel, Nomenclator Botanicus, Ed. I, 1821, 



F- 245- 

 Melanium alliaceum Sprengel, Systema Vegetabilium, II, 1825, p. 454. 

 Cuphea pseudomelanium Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, 



p 186. 



Dry savanna, south of Sante Fe, May 25, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 546; Blain, Nos. ^5, ^6 (according to Millspaugh). (Flowers 

 white.) General Distribution: Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, and the Isle 

 of Pines. 



493. Parsonsia micrantha Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth. 



Cuphea micrantha Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth, Nova Genera et Species 



Plantaium, VI, 1823, p. 196. 

 Melanium hiftum Sprengel, Systema Vegetabilium, II, 1825, p. 451. 



