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Passiflora suberosa Linn. Sp. PI. 958. 



Cape Corientes, Cuba (1453). Leaves coriaceous, broadly ovate 

 in outline, 4.5-6x5-6 cm., trilobate, pointleted-acute at the apex, 

 petioles glabrous, .6 cm., glands subsessile opposite, close to the 

 blade. 



Passiflora lineariloba J. Hook Trans. Linn. Soc. 20:222. 



Suburbs of San Domingo city (831, 854). Leaves mostly linear 

 lobed, the lateral lobes divergent, all hairy, petiolar glands at the 

 upper third, alternate, flowers larger than the last. 



Passiflora foetida Linn. Sp. PI. 959. 



P. ciliata Dryand. Shores of the bay (1003), and on Morro Hill 

 (1065), Santiago de Cuba. 



CACTACE.E.* 



Opuntia Tuna (Linn) Mill. Diet. ed. viii:3. 



Cactus Linn. South shore of Culebras Island (648). East shore 

 of Cozumel Island; and two low spreading clumps near the center 

 of the north end Perez Island, Alacran Shoals (1757)- 



RHIZOPHORACE.E. 



Rhizophora Mangle Linn. Sp. PI. 443. 



I^orming " islands " and "swamp groves" throughout the re- 

 gions visited except the Bermudas and Alacran Shoals. All along 

 the inner bay shores and forming swamps at Catano, Porto Rico (363), 

 where it seldom attains a growth of over ten feet in height. South- 

 west point Cayman Brae (1211). 



COMBRETACE.E. 



Buceras Catappa (Linn.) Hitch. PI. Baham. 85. 



Terminalia L. The most striking tree of the streets of George- 

 town, Grand Cayman (1316), where it is planted for shade and inci- 

 dentally for its fruit, called the "Almond," to which it bears some 

 likeness in both shape and taste. Also noted near San Miguel, Cozu- 

 mel. 



Conocarpus erectus Linn. Sp. PI. 147. 



In this species the leaves vary from broadly lanceolate to ellip- 

 tical lanceolate, from glabrous to sericeous, and are not onlv biglandu- 

 lar at the base, but also uniglandular at the juncture of each main 

 vein to the midrib; this character is evident also in all the forms 

 and varieties. The peduncles of the flower heads may be from one 

 to four times the diameter of the head or sessile. Stamens usuallv 

 5, oftener less than more. The whole plant is erect and varies 

 from a small shrub to a fair-sized tree. South shores Culebras 

 Island, Porto Rico (596, 649). Shores of the bay of Santiago, Cuba, 



* Although many cacti were observed, especially on the smith shore of Culebras Island, at 

 Santiago He ' 1 1. on the Cayman Islands. th<> Island of Cozumel, and in the arid scrubland south 

 of Frowns 1. the above was the only species found in bloom. 



