March, 1900. Plant. k Utowant: Millspaugh. 75 



suburbs of Charlotte Ama'lia, St. Thomas (369). Flowers yellow, v 

 leaves trilobate or abortively approaching trilobation, 10 x 8 cm., the 

 central lobe prolonged into a slender lanceolate apex, concluding 

 with a long awn-like point, all the larger veins -beneath glandular 

 dotted, and each parenchymal island formed by the anastomosis of 

 the veinlets centrally occupied by a small black punctation; branch- 

 lets and petals also nigro-punctate ; all parts of plant absolutely 

 glabrous. 



Center of Island Grand Cayman, scattered about in old fields, 

 pastures and open woodlands (1367). Leaves small, broader than 

 long, 5 x 6.5 cm., trilobed at the upper third, lobes deltoid, blunt 

 and aristate, even the smallest leaves (1.5 x 1 cm.) homomorphous; 

 stems, branches, branchlets and petioles long pilose; black punctate 

 throughout, punctations turgid upon the upper surface of the leaves, 

 forming a mass of shining hemispheres. 



Roadsides and fields about Progreso, Yucatan, and the dry, 

 rocky scrubland south of the lagoon (1690, 1734). Leaves cordate, 

 6x6 cm., or hederaceously 3-lobed, 5x6 cm., lobes deltoid, point- 

 letted, nigro-punctations as in the first form. Whole plant short- 

 pilose. 



BOMBACACE.E. 



Pachira fastuosa (Sesse.) Decne. Fl. Serres. 23:48. 



Roadside near El Caney, Santiago de Cuba (1025). Probably 

 cultivated, tree nude at this season except for a few bright, rose-col- 

 ored flowers. 



STERCULIACEiE. 



Melochia tomentosa Linn. Syst. ed. x:ii40. 



M. frittescens Jacq. Dry fields south shore of Culebras Island 

 (572, 609, 616, 645), and about the bay of Guanica (765), Porto Rico. 

 Old fields near Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas (472), where it is called 

 " Broom-weed," and the bay of Santiago de Cuba (1020, 1023). Arid 

 stony scrublands south of Progreso, Yucatan (1689), The Creek, 

 Cayman Brae (1184); leaves ovate-lanceolate, softly tomentose above 

 and beneath, 4 x 1.7 cm., obtuse serrate, sharply serrate, doubly ser- 

 rate, crenate and recurrent-serrate on the same branch. A similar 

 plant from Spot Bay (1288) and from Bodden Bay road (1326), Grand 

 Cayman. 



Melochia pyramidata Linn. Sp. PI. 674. 



Fencerows and fields suburbs of San Domingo (787, 838); leaves 

 sharply crenate-serrate, ovate-lanceolate, 4. 5 x 2 cm., veins prominent 

 below, light yellow. Morro Hill, Santiago de Cuba (1087) ; a form 

 with small ovate leaves below, 1.3 x 1.5 cm., and the usual form 

 above, 2.5 x 1.6 cm. Bodden Bay road. Grand Cayman (1345) a 

 form with long slender virgate branches, and narrowly-lanceolate 

 sharp serrate leaves, 5 x 1.5 cm. 



Melochia nodiflora Sw. Prod. Veg. Ind. Occ. 37. 

 Grassy roadsides near San Domingo City (848). 



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