March, 1900. Plant.k Utowan.k Millspaugh. 73 



South shores Culebras Island (566), plentiful. Waste grounds 

 near San Domingo city (789). 



Malachra alcejEFOlia Jacq. Coll. 2:350. 



In this species the stem is somewhat oppressed pilose and the 

 acicula are geminate, the petioles- are so strongly geniculate near the 

 leaf that the truncate base lies parallel to the petiole, carpids puber- 

 ulous. M. capitata var ft alceifolia (Jacq.) Griseb. in Fl. Br. W. I. 80 

 M. rolundifolia Schk. 



Old pastures at Caguas (212), and Santurce (275), Porto Rico. 



Urena lobata Linn. Sp. PI. 692. 



Old pastures at Caguas, Porto Rico (237), and south shore of Cule- 

 bras Island (594). Mountain road above Charlotte Amalia, St. 

 Thomas (545); leaves ample 6.5 x 9 cm., broadly ovate or nearly reni- 

 form butwitha truncate base, 3 or abortively 5-lobed, sparsely short- 

 hairyabove, densely tomentose beneath, slit glands 3. Fruit, 1.5 cm. 

 diameter. 



Urena sinuata Linn. he. cit. 



Fields about San Domingo (796) ; lowest leaves unlobed and 

 large serrate, median leaves partially 5-sinuatedobed, upper sinuately 

 3-lobed above the middle, longitudinally slit gland one, at the base of 

 the midrib, fruit nearly 1 cm. diameter. Same locality (847), juvenile. 

 Bodden Bay road, Grand Cayman (1321), all the leaves 5-lobed, split 

 glands 3, leaves 4.5 x 5.5 cm., fruits undeveloped. The number of 

 split glands in this genus appear to be in the ratio -2 of the lobes of 

 the leaf bearing them. 



Pavonia Typhal/ea Cav. Diss. 3:134. 



Moist rich soil near Port Antonio, Jamaica (961, 1139). 



Pavonia spinifex (Linn.) Cav. he. cit. 133. 



Hibiscus Linn. Dry soils in opens near Catano (259), and Guan- 

 ica (688, 695, 703), Porto Rico. 



Malvaviscus Malvaviscus (Linn.) comb. nov. 



Hibiscus M. Linn. Sp. PL 694, M. arboreus Cav. Diss. 3 t. 48. 

 Spot Bay, Grand Cayman (13 13), and scrub land south of Progreso, 

 Yucatan" (1728). "The Creek," Cayman Brae, where it is termed 

 " Mahce," and used as a flagellant for rheumatic patients. 



Malvaviscus concinnus H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 5:286. 



Dry gravelly roadway cut west of Port Antonio, Jamaica (931). 



Malvaviscus Jordan-Mottii sp. nov. 



Tall shrub, 2-3 meters high, glabrous throughout, branches and 

 branchlets red, leaves almost peltoid-cordate, broadly ovate, bluntly 

 pointed, 9.5-10.5 x 8-8.5 cm., irregularly blunt-crenate toothed, major 

 veins 7, strongly reticulate; inflorescence terminal-axillary on the 

 young branchlets pedicels about 2 cm. long, slender; involucel- 

 leaves 10 linear, somewhat longer than the calyx, calyx lobes deltoid, 

 finely scattered hairy, corolla finely ciliate, rosy, about half the length 





