Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 199 



Ciiphea hirta DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilium, 



III, 1828, p. 83. 

 Cuphea rapunculoides Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, p. 105. 



Near Nueva Gerona, April 21, 1904, and May 25, 1904, A. H. 

 Curtiss, Nos. 455 and 513. General Distribution: Cuba, the Isle of 

 Pines, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, and from Honduras and Guatemala 

 to Brazil. 



Curtiss's No. 45$ consists of very diminutive specimens, some of 

 them not over 2.5 cm. high; these being, probably, merely starved 

 forms. 



494. Parsonsia Grisebachiana (Koehne) comb. nov. 



Cuphea Grisebachiana Koehne, Flora Brasiliensis, XIII, (II), 1877, p. 225. 

 Cuphea hyssopifolia Grisebach (in part), Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, 



p. 105, not of Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth. 

 Parsonsia Grisebachiana. (Herbarium name, as distributed in Curtiss' West Indian 



Plants, and unpublished.) 



Near Nueva Gerona, April 3, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 433. Gen- 

 eral Distribution: Western Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



495. Parsonsia pseudosilene (Grisebach) comb. nov. 



Cuphea pseudosilene Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, p. 105. 

 Parsonsia pseudosilene. (Herbarium name, as distributed in Curtiss' West Indian 

 Plants, and unpublished.) 



On white sand in the pine-barrens near Los Indios, May 17, 1910, 

 0. E. Jennings, No. 337; on sour-looking spots on the white sand of 

 the pine-barrens, May 18, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 384 (flowers 

 purplish); near Los Indios, November 4, 1912, G. A. Link. General 

 Distribution: The Isle of Pines and Cuba. 



496. Parsonsia Swartziana (Sprengel) comb. nov. 

 Cuphea Swartziana Sprengel, Systema Vegetabilium, II, 1825, p. 455. 

 Cuphea cordifolia Koehne, Engler, Botanische Jahrbucher, II, 1881, p. 140. 

 Parsonsia cordifolia. (Herbarium name, as distributed in Curtiss' West Indian 

 Plants, and unpublished.) 



Near Nueva Gerona, April 21, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 426. Gen- 

 eral Distribution: Western Cuba and the Isle of Pine5. In a recent 

 letter to the writer Dr. Britton refers Curtiss' 710. 426 to P. 

 Swartziana. 



Family RHIZOPHORACE^. 



497. Rhizophora Mangle Linnaeus. Mangrove. Mangle. 

 Rhizophora Mangle 'LiNNJEVS, Species Plantarum, I, Ed. I, 1753, p. 443. 



