Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 213 



527. Pachyanthus ovatus Cogniaux. 

 Pachyanthus ovatus Cogniaxjx, in Urban, Sj^mbolae Antillanae, V, 1908, p. 449. 



A tree about twelve feet in height, growing in the pine-barrens near 

 Los Indies, May 17, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 334. General Distri- 

 bution: In Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba, and in the Isle of Pines. 



528. Clidemia hirta (Linnaeus) D. Don. 



Melastoma hirta Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 390. 



Clidemia hirta D. Don, Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, IV, 



1823, p. 309; Grisebach, Flora of the British West Indian Islands, i860, p. 246. 

 Clidemia crenata DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, 



III. 1828, p. 157. 



Near Nueva Gerona, February 13, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 342 

 {in pari); swampy margin of pond about two miles east of Nueva 

 Gerona, May 6, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 42. General Distribution: 

 General throughout the West Indies and continental tropical America. 



A rather common low shrub around margins of ponds and along 

 moist banks of arroyos. 



529. Clidemia strigillosa (Swartz) DeCandolle. 



Melastoma strigillosa Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum Vegetabilium Indiae 



Occidentalis, 1788, p. 71. 

 Staphidium spicatum Naudin, in Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Series III, 



XVII, 1852, p. 316 (in part). 

 Clidemia spicata var. strigillosa Grisebach, Flora of the British West Indian 



Islands, i860, p. 247. 



Near Nueva Gerona, February 13, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 342 

 (as to Carnegie Museum specimen, in part); moist bank of arroyo 

 between Los Indies and the Canada Mts., May 18, 1910, 0. E. Jen- 

 nings, No. 37S- General Distribution: Cuba, the Isle of Pines, 

 Jamaica, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, Guiana, and Peru. 



Note. Clidemia spicata (Aublet) DeCandolle, as reported by 

 Millspaugh, Blain, Nos. 6g, 125, has not been examined. The more 

 recent reports as to the distribution of the species would seem "to 

 leave some doubt as to its occurrence on the Isle of Pines, and from 

 an examination of the current descriptions of the species the writer 

 believes that Blain's specimens may be C. strigillosa. 



530. Ossaea macrandra (Wright) Millspaugh. 



Sagraa macrandra Wright, in Sauvalle, Flora Cubana, 1873, p. 46. 

 OsscBa macrandra Millspaugh, Field Columbian Museum, Botany, Series I, 1900, 

 p. 432. 



