254 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Bacopa Monniera Wettstein, in Engler & Prantl, Natiirliche Pflanzenfamilien, 



IV (3b), 1891, p. 77. 

 Monniera Monniera Britton, Memoirs Torrey Botanical Club, V, 1894, p. 292. 



Between Bogarona and Caleta Grande, "South Coast," May 22, 

 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 474. General Distribution: On banks 

 and shores, Maryland to Florida and Texas, the Bahamas, Bermudas, 

 West Indies, and the tropics and subtropics generally. 



647. Buchnera elongata Swartz, 



Buchnera elongata Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum Vegetabilium Indiae Occi- 

 dentalis, 1788, p. 92; Grisebach, Flora of the British West Indian Islands, 1861, 

 p. 428. 



Near Nueva Gerona, March 5, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 386; dry 

 savanna east of Nueva Gerona, May 6, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 55; 

 same locality, May 14, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 247. General 

 Distribution: In pine-lands and savannas from South Carolina to 

 Florida and Texas, the Bahamas, and in the West Indies reported 

 from Cuba, the Isle of Pines, Jamaica, Porto Rico, and Hispaniola; 

 also South America. 



648. Gerardia* sp. 



Near Caleta Grande, "South Coast," on soil derived from coralline 

 limestone, May 22, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 4gj. 



649. Gerardia* pinetorum Britton & Wilson. (Plate XXVII.) 



Gerardia pinetorum Britton & Wilson, in Britton, Studies of West Indian Plants, 

 VIII, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, XLIII, 1916, p. 466. 



Acaulescent plants with perennial erect rhizomes reaching a maxi- 

 mum of I cm. in length; roots tuberous-thickened; leaves forming a 

 rosette, hirsute, oblong, at the apex obtuse or rounded, 1-1.5 cm. 

 long, 5-8 mm. wide, whitish hirsute or subglabrous, whitish glandular, 

 subcrenate, somewhat narrowed at the base, the petiole 1-1.5 cm. 

 long; spikes terminal, about 7-8 cm. high, sparsely whitish pubescent, 

 whitish glandular, few-flowered, the bracts lance-subulate, 4-5 mm. 

 long, ciliate, the bracteoles similar, about 1.5 mm. long; calyx cleft 

 deeply, 2.5 mm. long, minutely ciliate and glandular; tube of the 

 corolla about 5 mm. long, about i mm. in diameter, cylindrical, the 

 lobes obovate, obtuse, the posterior ones about 7 mm. long, 4 mm. 

 wide, not connate, the anterior one 8 mm. long and 6 mm. wide, 

 the lateral ones about 8 mm. long and 5 mm. wide, the whole corolla 

 * Gerardia tuberosa Linnaeus, the type of the genus, is one of the Acanthaceae. 

 See p. 259. 



