Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 273 



703. Borreria strumpfioides C. Wright. 



Borteria slrumpfioides C. Wright, in Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 

 1866, p. 142. 



On sandy plain near the Siguanea hills, May 21, 1910, 0. E. Jen- 

 nings, No. 457. General Distribution; Western Cuba and the Isle 

 of Pines. 



704. Borreria pygmaea (C. Wright) Spruce & K. Schumann. 



Spermacoce pygmcea C. Wright, in Sauvalle, Flora Cubana, 1868, p. 72. 

 Borreria pygmcea Spruce & K. Schximann, in Martius, Flora Brasiliensis, VI, 

 (6), 1888. p. 58. 



Dry savanna east 01 Nueva Gerona, May 5, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 25. General Distribution: Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



705. Mitracarpum depauperatum Britton & Wilson. 



Mitracarpum depauperatum Britton & Wilson, in Britton, Studies of West Indian 

 Plants, VIII, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, XLIII, 1916, pp. 467, 468. 



"Dry white sand, central districts; type from near Los Indios 

 {Britton & Wilson 141^/')." Britton, /. c. 



Family CUCURBITACE^. 



Leaves subcordate-roundish, angled or slightly lobed; stamens 5. 



706. Fevillea cordifolia. 

 Leaves not roundish or else deeply lobed; stamens mostly 3. 



Anthers straight or not much curved 707. Melothria guadalupensis. 



Anthers contorted or U-shaped 708. Momordica Charantia. 



706. Fevillea cordifolia Linnaeus. 

 Fevillea cordifolia Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 1013. 



Northern part of the island, Blain, No. iig (Millspaugh). General 

 Distribution: Cuba, the Isle of Pines, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Porto 

 Rico, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Trinidad, and the tropics of South 

 America. 



707. Melothiia guadalupensis (Sprengel) Cogniaux. 



Bryonia guadalupensis Sprengel, Systema Vegetabilium, III, 1826, p. 15. 

 Melothria pervaga Grisebach, Flora of the British West Indian Islands, i860, p. 



289. 

 Melothria guadalupensis Cogniaux, in DeCandolle, Monographiae Phanerogama- 



rum. III, 1881, p. 580. 



Along bank of the Majagua River, north of Los Indios, May. 19, 

 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 416; near Nueva Gerona, June 3, 1912, 



