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BURSERACE.E. 



BURSERA GUMMIFERA Linn. Sp. PI. 471. 



Bursera Simaruba Sarg. Island of Culebras, infrequent, Peder- 

 nales Point, Isle of Pines, Cape Corientes, Cuba, center of Island 

 Cozumel, and Chichen Itza, Yucatan. 



MELIACE.E. 



Melia Azedarach Linn. Sp. PI. 384. 



Cultivated or escaped to fence rows and opens suburbs of San 

 Domingo (788); center of Island, Grand Cayman (1354); and San 

 Miguel, Cozumel (1573). Catano (173) and Guanica (749), Porto Rico. 



Cedrela odorata Linn. Syst. ed. x: 940. 



Plentiful in woodlands throughout the peninsula of Yucatan. 

 Plate xliii. 



MALPIGHIACE.E. 



Tetrapteris Mexicana H. & A. Bot. Beechy. 281. 



In fruit only. San Miguel, Island of Cozumel (1484). 



Stigmaphyllon Sagraeanum A. Juss. Arch. Mus. Par. 3: 379. 



Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas (400). Leaves oblong-lanceolate 

 cordate, apiculate 5-7x1-2 cm., densely and strongly reticulate. 

 Fields near El Caney, Santiago de Cuba (1036), leaves oblong trun- 

 cate, apiculate 4-5x1.5-2.5 cm. Port of Ponce, Porto Rico (662); 

 and Culebras Island (599), leaves ovate sub-cordate, apiculate 4-5 x 

 2.7-3 cm - 



Stigmaphyllon emarginatum (Cav.) A. Juss. loc. cit. 382. 



Banisteria Cav. A small and somewhat depauperate specimen 

 gathered in the environs of San Domingo city (835). 



Stigmaphyllon diversifolium (Kunth.) A. Juss. loc. cit. 381. 



Banisteria Kunth. Santurce, Porto Rico (262), the large, broad 

 ovate leaved form (11.5-14x7-8.5 cm.) similar to Sintenis 3843 from 

 Guanica. Shores of the bay at Santiago de Cuba (1010), the small, 

 narrowly oblong-linear leaved form like Wright's 2154, 2I 55> Cuba, 

 leaves 3.5-4 x .6-1 cm. Isle of Pines at Pedernales Point (1419)5 

 leaves oval 67 x 2.5-3.5 cm. 



POLYGALACE.E. 



Polygala paniculata Linn. Syst. ed. x, 1154. 



Plentiful in dry rocky soils near Bayamon, Porto Rico (316). 

 Simple or greatly branching, strict, racemes slender, many flowered. 



Polygala angustifolia H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 5:405. 



Dry soil near Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas (464), rare, only 

 one specimen seen. 



