March, 1900. Plantve Utowan.-e Millspaugh. 103 



Spermacoce ltevis Lam. Illustr. 1:273. 



Our specimens from Port Antonio, Jamaica (948, 991), agree per- 

 fectly with H. H. & G. W. Smith's from Mustique Island, Lesser Gren- 

 adines, British West Indies. 



Spermacoce tenuior Linn. Sp. PI. 102. 



Islets of Hamilton Bay, Bermuda (20, 21). The usual form of 

 the species from dry soil along railroad near Bayamon, Porto Rico 

 (340). Environs of Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas (437), and San / 

 Domingo city (866); roadside at Spot Bay, Grand Cayman (1302); 

 and San Miguel, Cozumel (1478); also in open woods at the Caleta, 

 Cozumel (1531). In the Bermudan specimens the leaves are small, 

 ovate-lanceolate, pointed, 1.5-2.5X.8-1 cm., and the plants low and 

 spreading; in all the others the leaves are linear-lanceolate, 2.5-4 x 

 .6-. 8 cm., and the stems erect, except in No. 1478 the leaves are 

 ovate-lanceolate, 3x1.3-1.5 cm. 



Spermacoce verticillata Linn. Sp. PI. 102. 



Dry soils near Port Antonio, Jamaica (958), larger and more fully 

 erect than another specimen from the neighborhood of San Miguel. 

 Cozumel (1500). Leaves of the former 3X.7 cm., of the latter i.yx 

 .4 cm., heads 1 cm. diam., and in the latter .8 cm. 



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CUCURBITACE^. 



Melothria pervaga (Macf.) Griseb. Fl. Br. W. I. 289. 



Landersia Macf. Climbing over low weeds at Caguas, Porto 

 Rico (206). 



Momordica Charantia Linn. Sp. PI. 1009. 



Climbing over low shrubs at Catafio (142), south shores Culebras 

 Island (593), and at Guanica (693), Porto Rico. Fences and shrub- y 

 bery in the environs of St. Thomas (433). Leaves 4-5.5 cm. scat- 

 tered short-strigose above and on the larger veins beneath, fruit 

 soft-tubercled, peduncular bract 1 cm. from the axil. Suburbs of San 

 Domingo (871), characters of the last except: Leaves 3.5-4 cm. and 

 peduncular bract 2 mm. from the axil. Base of Morro Hill, Santi- 

 ago de Cuba (1097), leaves glabrous 7-10 cm., peduncular bract 3 mm. 

 from axil. Bodden Bay road, Grand Cayman (1329), characters as 

 in the St. Thomas specimens. 



Luff A cvlindrica (Linn.) Roera. Syn. Pepon. 63. 



Banks and low shrubbery at Caguas, Porto Rico (209). 



Cucumis Anguria Linn. loc. cit. 



Climbing over low herbs on rocky hillside south shore of Cule- 

 bras Island (641). 



Cucumis Melo Linn. Sp. PI. ion. 



In a washed-out stream bed far from habitations or cultivated 

 lands on the south shores of Culebras Island (584). Apparently 

 native though probably an escape. 



