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Russelia juncea Zucc. in Flora 15 (1832): 99. 



Hedgerow at Catano, Porto Rico (183), probably planted, at least 

 escaped. 



Monniera dianthera (Sw.) comb. nov. 



Lindernia Sw. Prod. Veg. Ind. Occ. 92 (1788). Herpestis chamce- 

 dryoides Rth. Gathered with the next (1525) at the Caleta, Cozu- 

 mel; rare. 



Monniera Monniera (L.) Britton Pterid. & Sperm. N. A. 292. 



Gratiola L. , Herpestis H. B. K. Moist places near the shore at 

 Catano, Porto Rico (177), and near the Caleta, Island of Cozumel 



(1525). 



Capraria biflora Linn. Sp. PI. 628. 



Dry fields about Hamilton, Bermuda (120), roadsides about 

 Caguas (217) and Guanica (710), Porto Rico, and Charlotte Amalia, 

 ^ St. Thomas (421); fruits short pedicelled, leaves average 4 x 1.6 cm., 



sharply and evenly serrate, stem strongly pilose in the channels. 

 Sides of Morro Hill, Santiago de Cuba (1076); fruit pedicels the 

 length of the strongly ciliate calyx, sepals linear, one-third longer 

 than the capsule, whole plant pilose, leaves sharply gross-serrate, 

 3 x 1.3 cm. About the Caleta, Cozumel, in forest and scrubland 

 (1513, 1535); densely foliate, leaves 3 x 1.3 cm., sharply serrate 

 above the middle, whole plant finely pubescent, pedicels filiform, 

 nearly three times the length of the fruit. Interior of Yucatan at 

 Chichen Itza (1625); whole plant canescent, leaves few and scatter- 

 ing, 3.5 x 1.5 cm., irregularly serrate, fruits very short pedicelled. 

 Roadsides and open lands about Progreso (1732); plants low, densely 

 large-foliate (6.5 x 3.2 cm.), canescent, pedicels nearly twice the 

 length of the capsules, filiform. 



Capraria semiserrata Berterii (A. de C.) Bth. in de C. Prod. 10:429. 



Dry fields center of Grand Cayman (1364). Shrubby, stem whit- 

 ish, branches scattered-pilose above the middle; leaves smooth above 

 and beneath, narrowly lanceolate (averaging 4 cm. x 6 mm.), sessile 

 or nearly so, narrowing to a sharp cusp, margins entire ciliate, pedi- 

 cels filiform, thrice the length of the fruits, ciliate, 1-4 from each leaf 

 axil, sepals linear, at last shorter than the carpels, bracts as long as 

 the flowering pedicels, carpels scrobiculate. 



Scoparia dulcis Linn. Sp. PI. 116. 



Dry fields in the suburbs of San Domingo (807). 



Veronica arvensis Linn. Sp. PI. 13. 



Dry fields and meadows about Hamilton, Bermuda (137). 



Gerardia cereifera sp. nov. 



Annual, glabrous, leaves linear, 2.5-3.8 x. 25 cm., entire, sub- 

 opposite on the branches, scabrous above with white wax-like scabrae, 

 which become massed at the free margin of the leaf, racemes few- 

 flowered open, pedicels very short, about half the length of the calyx 

 tube, calyx thin, prominently veined, the teeth deltoid, blunt, corolla 

 about four times the length of the calyx, softly, densely and finely 



