204 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



closely related to Calyptranthes nummtdaria Berg, from Santo Domin- 

 go. The leaves are orbicular to orbicular-ovate, truncate to cordate 

 at the base, the apex broadly rounded, the upper surface impressed- 

 punctate, the lower surface densely punctate, leaves gray-green, 

 paler below, coriaceous; younger twigs and peduncles more or less 

 chestnut-brown, punctate, glabrous; peduncles more or less divaricate- 

 branched at apex, one to two times as long as the subtending leaves; 

 calyx-tube punctate-pellucid, about 2 mm. long. Older twigs ashy- 

 gray in color. Known only from the Isle of Pines. 



511. Calyptranthes micrantha Wright. 



Calyptranthes micrantha Wright, in Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 

 1866, p. 85. 



Near Nueva Gerona, May 15, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 4Q0; side of 

 ridge at Bibijagua, May 7, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 638. General 

 Distribution: Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



In recent years the lines of demarcation between the West Indian 

 species of Calyptranthes have been drawn very closely it seems to the 

 writer too closely in some cases so that ordinary variations are in 

 many cases very difficult to place in the species, as they are now 

 described. 



The two specimens catalogued above perhaps represent the same 

 species, the Bibijagua specimen having slightly narrower leaves and 

 more nearly glabrous twigs. 



512. Calyptranthes punctata Grisebach. 



Calyptranthes ptinctata Grisebach, Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts 



and Sciences, VIII, Seiies II, i860, p. 181, 

 Chytraculia punctata Millspaugh, Field Columbian Museum, Botanical Series, I, 



1900, p. 431. 



Reported by Millspaugh, /. c, on the basis of Blain, Nos. 158, 166. 

 General Distribution: Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



513. Eugenia axillaris (Swartz) Willdenow. 



Myrtus axillaris Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum Vegetabilium Indiae Occi- 



dentalis, 1788, p. 78. 

 Eugenia axillaris Willdenow, Species Plantarum, II, 1800, p. 970. 



Medium-sized tree at base of ridge at Bibijagua, May 7, 1910, 

 0. E. Jennings, No. 102. General Distribution: On sandy shores 

 from the Bermudas and southern Florida south through the West 

 Indies. 



