216 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Leaves glaucous beneath 539- Xolisma vaccinioides. 



Leaves not glaucous beneath 538- Xolisma myrlilloides. 



536. Kalmiella aggregata Small. 

 (Plate XVII, Figures A-D.) 



Kalmiella aggregata Small, North American Floia, XXIX (I), 1914, p. 54-SS- 



On the white quartzose sand, pine-barrens north of Los Indios, 

 May 17, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 324 (Type); same date and locality, 

 No. 625. General Distribution: Known only from the type-locality. 

 The plants grew scattered about in the pine-barrens, the growth 

 always open and scraggly, the branches few and more or less erect, 

 the leaves small and closely bunched towards the ends of the branches. 

 The flowers occur densely bunched at the apex of the branches, the 

 corolla being light pink and up to 20 mm. broad, glandular-pubescent, 

 as is also practically the whole upper part of the plant. The lance- 

 olate, acute sepals are about 4 mm. long, copiously soft-ciliate with 

 gland-tipped and naked hairs, the peduncles and calyx more or less 

 deeply reddish-purple in color. The filaments are pubescent near 

 the base, this not being a good distinguishing character between 

 K. aggregata and the closely related Kalmiella ericoides of western 

 Cuba (Small, /. c, in the key to species of Kalmiella, noting for K. 

 aggregata: "Filaments glabrous"). 



537. Pieris cubensis (Grisebach) Small. 



Andromeda cubensis Grisebach. Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, p. 51. 

 Pieris cubensis Small, North American Flora, XXIX, Part I, 1914, p. 63. 



Along arroyo east of Los Indios, May 18, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 302. General Distribution: Pinar del Rio, Cuba, and the Isle 

 of Pines. This is the first report for the Isle of Pines. 



538. Xolisma myrtilloides (Grisebach) Small. 



Lyonia myttilloides Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, pp. 50-51. 

 Including also varieties parvifolia Grisebach and ovatifolia Grisebach, op. cit., 



P- SI- 

 Xolisma myrtilloides Small, North American Flora, XXIX, Part I, 1914, p. 67. 



On white quartz sand in the pine barrens north of Los Indios, May 



17, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, Nos. 30Q and 3oga. The first-named 



number is a small-leaved variety, perhaps Grisebach's var. parvifolia. 



General Distribution: Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



