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Field Columbian Museum Botany, Vol. 2. 





Dichromena nervosa Vahl. Enum. 2:241. 



D. ciliata Vahl. Moist banks and ditches at Bayamon, Porto 

 Rico (338), and at Port Antonio, Jamaica (927). 



Dichromena pubera Vahl. loc. cit. 



Moist meadow at Cataiio, Porto Rico (152). 



Dichromena radicans C. & S. Linnaea 6:28. 



Boggy soil, center of the island Grand Cayman (1375), and a 

 similar situation on Cozumel Island (1562). 



Scleria communis Kth. Enum. 2:340. 



S. pratensis Nees. Schcenns latifolius Vahl. Moist place in deep 

 woods, high on mountain back of Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas (506), 

 where it is called "Cut grass." 



PALMACE.E. 



Thrinax argentea (Jacq.) Lodd. in R. & S. Syst. 8:2. 



Pahna Jacq. Fine groves of large, straight-trunked trees at 

 Pedernales Point, Isle of Pines, and Cape Corientes, Cuba ; also on 

 the northeast point of Cozumei (1601). Low and shrubby on the. west 

 shores of Cozumel, and along the beach at Progreso, Yucatan (1718). 



Cocos nucifera Linn. Sp. PI. 1188. 



Largely cultivated near Port Antonio, Jamaica, and on Cayman 

 Brae and Grand Cayman, at which points the trees are very prolific. 

 The tree must have been brought to the Yucatan coast by the Span- 

 iards, as the Maya Indians have no name for it. 



BROMELIACE.E. 



Tillandsia recurvata Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2:410. . 



Plentiful on low, leguminous shrubs, especially upon the 

 branches of Pithecolobium unguis-cati, along the shores of Santiago 

 Bay, Cuba (1016). 



Tillandsia vestita Cham. & Schl. in Linnea 6:52. 



On trees in forests of the center of Cozumel (1557a.), in fruit only, 

 very plentiful. Whole plant, 30 cm.; fruiting rachis 15 cm.; leaves, 

 15 x 1.2 cm. 



Tillandsia polystachya Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2:410. 



On trees Spot Bay, Grand Cayman (1362). Fruiting spike three- 

 branched, 16 cm. long ; plant 52 cm. high ; lower leaves 28 cm., upper 

 16-24 cm.; fruits 1.8-2 cm. 



Tillandsia flexuosa Sw. Prod. Veg. Ind. Occ. 56. 



On trees on margins of the lagoon southwest point of Cayman 

 Brae (1219). Plants about 40 cm. high ; leaves 4 cm. broad at base, 

 about 14 cm. long; lower internodes 3 cm., their bracts 2.8 cm.; up- 

 per internodes 4.8 cm., their bracts 2.2 cm. Stems simple flexuous 

 above the first flowering node; fruits, including pedicel, 2.4 cm., their 

 bracts 1.8 cm. 



