234 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



594. Jacquemontia tamnifolia (Linnaeus) Grisebach. 



Ipomoea tamnifolia "Linnmus, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 162. 

 Thyella tamnifolia Rafinesque, Flora Telluriana, IV, 1836, p. 84. 

 Jacquemontia tenuifolia Grisebach, Flora of the British West Indian Islands, 

 1861, p. 474. 



Near Los Indies, November 4, 1912, G. A. Link. General Distri- 

 bution: From South Carolina to Arkansas and south through the 

 West Indies and tropical continental America. 



595. Jacquemontia verticillata (Linnaeus) Urban. 



Ipomoea verticillata Linn^us, Systema Naturae, II, Ed. X, 1759, p. 924. 

 Convolvulus verticillatus Linn.eus, Species Plantarum, I, Ed. II, 1762, p. 220. 

 Convolvulus micranthus Roemer & Schultes, Systema Vegetabilium, IV, 1819, 



p. 276. 

 Jacquemontia verticillata Urban, Symbolse Antillanse, III, 1902, p. 339. 

 (See Urban, I. c, for various other synonyms.) 



Near Nueva Gerona, January 5, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 273. 

 General Distribution: The Bahamas, Cuba, the Isle of Pines, Jamaica, 

 Hispaniola, St. Vincent, and Trinidad. 



Family HYDROPHYLLACE^. 



596. Nama nigricaulis (Wright) Kuntze. 



Hydrolea nigricaulis Wright, in Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 



1866, pp. 207-208. 

 Nama nigricaulis O. Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum. 1891, p. 435. 



Near Nueva Gerona, December 12, 1903, A. H. Curtiss, No. 222. 

 General Distribution: Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



Family BORRAGINACE^. 



Key to the Species Enumerated. 

 Woody plants with leaves reaching 10 cm. or more in length. 



Leaves obovate-oblong to elliptic, about one-half as wide as long, apex rounded, 



obtuse to very abruptly repand-acuminate 597- Cordia Collococca. 



Leaves less than half as wide as long. 



Flowers about 20 mm. long 599- Cordia gerasacanthoides. 



Flowers less than 10 mm. long 601. Tournefortia hicolor. 



Herbaceous or woody plants with leaves less than 10 cm. long. 



Leaves somewhat fleshy, densely silky-tomentose, linear-spatulate, 3-8 cm. 



long 600. Tournefortia gnaphalodes. 



Leaves not as above. 



Shrub with ovate leaves and flowers in dense globose heads. 



598. Cordia globosa. 



