March, 1900. Plants Utowan^e Millspaugh. 93 



species, and was doubtless brought from Jamaica, as it here bears 

 the Jamaican name " Fiddlewood." 



Duranta repens Linn. Sp. PL 637. 



D. Plumicri]diC(\. Hillsides bordering the Bay of Guanica, Porto 

 Rico (757); in fruit only. 



yEgiphila elata Sw. Prod. Veg. Ind. Occ. 31. 



Fields and scrublands near Spot Bay, Grand Cayman (1281). A 

 form with the twigs and inflorescence downy, leaves coriaceous, 

 strongly reticulate-veined, 10-12 x 5-6 cm. 



Petitia Posppigii Schau. de C. Prod. 11:639. 



On the high tableland above "The Creek," Cayman Brae (1 164), 

 where the tree is called "Black Fiddlewood" and is used for ship 

 timbers. Probably not distinct from P. Domingensis Jacq. 



Clerodendron aculeatum (Linn.) Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 500. 



Volkameria Linn., Ovieda (L.) Hitch. Center of Grand Cayman 

 (1380). Various coast situations in Porto Rico; the shrubs on the 

 north shores are open, branchy and free flowering, those from the 

 south shores compact and densely leafy. Culebras Island (591), 

 Port of Ponce (663), and Guanica (739, 752). 



Clerodendron fragrans (Vent.) Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol.659. 



Volkameria Vent. Borders of streams on hillsides near Caguas, 

 Porto Rico (232). High up in mountain woods above Charlotte 

 Amalia, St. Thomas (556), where it has so far escaped from the 

 neighborhood of dwellings as to appear native. Hedges in the en- 

 virons of San Domingo city (772). 



Avicennia nitida Jacq. Enum. PL Carib. 25. 



Growing on the dryer margins of mangrove swamps, where it 

 asserts itself by its dusty white appearance. Shallow bays and 

 lagoons,. Bermuda Islands; swampy shallows near Catafio, Bayamon; 

 south shores of Culebras Island (582), and Ratones Island (657). 

 Port of Ponc, Porto Rico. Shores of the bay of Santiago (1009, 

 1019), southwest point of Cayman Brae, and near Progreso, Yucatan. 



LABIATACE.E. 



Teucrium inflatum Sw. Prod. Veg. Ind. Occ. 88. 



Moist hillside near Port Antonio, Jamaica (994)- Differs from 

 most specimens of the species in its larger leaves (6.5-9.5 x 4.5-5.5 

 cm.) and denser growth. 



Glf.choma hederacea Linn. Sp. PL 578. 



Nepeta Glechoma Bth. A few plants in woodlands and old fallow 

 fields near Hamilton, Bermuda (129). 



Leonotis nepetvefolia (Linn.) R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. 3:409. 



Phlomis Linn. Fields, Walsingham, Bermuda (106). Mr. 

 Reade,* writing in 1885, says of this species : "introduced in a few 



*" Plants of the Bermudas or Somers' Islands." 



