March, igoo. Planive Utowan^e Millspaugh. 83 



Tabefn^emontana citrifolia Linn. Sp. PI. 210. 



Margins of woods at San Miguel and the Caleta, Cozumel 

 (1493, 1511). Flowers creamy-white. The plant is called " Uoupek,'' 

 "smell of the dog," by the Mayas. 



Thevetia Thevetia (Linn.) comb. nov. 



Cerbera Thevetia Linn. Sp. PI. 209. Frequent on the high 

 mountains above Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas (529). 



Echites Andrewsii Chapm. Fl. So. St. 359. 



E. neriandra Griseb. Open fields center of Grand Cayman (1373). 

 Pubescent climber, leaves ovate-oblong, pale beneath, 6x4 cm., 

 apex mucronate, truncate and sometimes slightly emarginate on the 

 same plant, peduncles 2.5 to 6 cm. long, several-flowered, calyx 

 lobes linear-acuminate (7 mm. long), slightly longer than the cylin- 

 drical portion of the corolla tube, corolla downy, yellow, 3 cm. long, 

 limb spreading 4 cm. Another specimen from the same locality 

 (1366) has smaller leaves (4.3 x 1.8 cm.), more strongly pubescent on 

 both surfaces, ovate-lanceolate, all mucronate, and flowers paler 

 yellow (Prang Y, 3; the previous specimen being Y, 1). 



Echites repens Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 13. 



Infrequent in shady opens near Port Antonio, Jamaica (974). 

 Leaves 8.5x2.2 cm., peduncles 4 cm., pedicels 8 mm., calyx-lobes 

 4 mm., corolla tube, cylindrical portion 1.7 cm., expanded portion 

 2.2 cm., lobes 2 cm., stem glabrous, internodes about 10 cm. 



Echites rosea A. de C. Prod. 8:450. 



Dry hillsides, The Ovens, and Morro Hill, Santiago de Cuba 

 (1102, 1 1 13). Stems slender, tortuous verrucose, leaves elliptical- 

 ovate, 2x1 cm. (except near the base of one individual (1102) where 

 the leaves were very large for the species, being 4.3x2.1 cm.), cor- 

 date at the base, and strongly mucronate at the apex, prominently 

 netted-veined beneath, smooth and coriaceous above, short petioled, 

 peduncles axillary and terminal, about .5 cm. long, pedicels ]/? the 

 length of the peduncle, corolla tube: cylindrical portion 2 cm., ex- 

 panded portion 1.5 cm., lobes about 1.3 cm. long, bright rose-lake 

 (Prang R R V, 1). ' 



Echitis umbellata, Jacq. PI. Carib. 13. 



Fields about Georgetown, Grand Cayman (1243). Leaves large 

 (6.5x4.5 cm.), strongly mucronate, corolla tube 3 cm. long, limb 2 

 cm. broad. 



Nerium Oleander Linn. Sp. PI. 209. 



Pagets and Hamilton, Bermuda (66, 117). Although compara- 

 tively a recent introduction in Bermuda, the plant is now so thor- 

 oughly spread about all the larger islands as to take on the character 

 of a more or less noxious weed. 



ASCLEPIADACE.E. 



Asclepias curassavica Linn. Sp. PI. 215. 



Dry roadsides at Paget's, Bermuda (40), pastures at Caguas, 



