Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 257 



and continental tropical America. A closely related species is the 

 Tahehuia bahamensis of Cuba and the Bahamas. (See Britton, 

 Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, XLII, 1915, p. 379.) 



655. Catalpa punctata Grisebach. 

 Catalpa punttata Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, p. 192. 



A weak shrub about eight feet high, near Caleta Giande, "South 

 Coast," May 22, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 507. General Distribu- 

 tion: Western Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



656. Crescentia Cujete Linnaeus. Calabash. 

 Crescentia Cujete Linn^us, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 626. 



Near Nueva Gerona, January 26, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 311; 

 from tree in Nueva Gerona, May, 1910, 0. E. Jennings (fruit). Gen- 

 eral Distribution: Key West, Florida, Bermuda (introduced), and 

 quite generally over the West Indies and continental tropical America. 



A very peculiar tree with the leaves fascicled along the few branches 

 and the hard-shelled round fruits mainly borne on the stems and 

 larger branches. The wood of the tree is tough and flexible, while 

 the hard shells of the fruits are used for cups, dippers, and receptacles 

 of various kinds. The tree is not often seen excepting around the 

 towns, where it is a common tree along the stone fences, walls, etc., 

 there apparently mostly naturalized from seeds carelessly thrown about 

 when the shells were being cleaned out. 



Family GESNERIACE.^. 



657. Gesneria acuminata Urban. 



Conradia humilis A. Richard, in Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la 



Isla de Cuba, XI, 1850, p. 71, in part. 

 Pentarhaphia humilis Hanstein, Linnaea, XXXIV, 1865, p. 294, in part. 

 Conradia pumila Millspaugh, Field Columbian Museum, Botanical Series, I, 



1900, p. 434. 

 Gesneria acuminata Urban, Symbolae Antillana;, I, 1900, p. 479. 



Northern part of the island, Blain, No. 50 (Millspaugh, /. c); 

 at edge of rocks along water, Los Indios River, May 18, 1910, 0. E. 

 Jennings, No. 363; near magnesia spring at Sante Fe, May 26, 1910, 

 0. E. Jennings, No. ^81. General Distribution: Cuba and the Isle 

 of Pines. 



