[Vol. 2 

 48 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



SALVIA SEROTINA L. (S. micrantha Vahl) 



Frequent on the coastal plain and on the plateau: Porto Rico; Hispaniola; 

 Bahamas. 



HYPTIS PECTINATA (L.) Poit. 



Cultivated ground on the coastal plain: Porto Rico; Hispaniola; Bahamas; 

 Curacao. 



SOLANUM NIGRUM L. (S. americanum Mill.) 



Cultivated ground, Sardinera: Porto Rico; Hispaniola; Bahamas; Curacao. 



SOLANUM VERBASCIFOLIUM L. 



Occasional at the bases of cliffs and on the coastal plain: Porto Rico; 

 Hispaniola; Bahamas. 



BRAMIA MONNIERIA (L.) Drake. (Herpestis Monniera HBK.) 

 Border of a pool, Sardinera: Porto Rico; Hispaniola; Bahamas. 



CAPRARIA BIFLORA L. 



Common on the coastal plain and on the plateau: Porto Rico; Hispaniola; 

 Bahamas ; Curacao. 



SCOPARIA DULCIS L. 



In moist soil on the coastal plain: Porto Rico; Hispaniola; Bahamas. 



TABEBUIA HETEROPHYLLA (DC.) Britton. (Raputia (?) heterophylla 

 DC; Tabebuia triphylla DC, not Bignonia triphylla L.) 

 Frequent on the coastal plain and on the plateau. Leaves 1-foliolate to 



5-foliolate: Porto Rico. 



TABEBUIA LUCIDA Britton, sp. nov. 



A tree up to 5 m. high. Leaves 3-5-foliolate; petioles slender, lepidote, 6 cm. 

 long or less; petiolules of the larger, upper leaflets slender, lepidote, 8-20 mm. 

 long; lower leaflets sessile or nearly so; leaflets thin-coriaceous, narrowly oblong 

 or oblong-oblanceolate, 5-10 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, shining, reticulate- veined and 

 lepidote on both sides, rather abruptly acute or obtusish at the apex, narrowed or 

 obtuse at the base; flowers clustered; pedicels lepidote; calyx about 14 mm. long, 

 2-lipped; corolla pink, glabrous, about 5 cm. long, its cylindric tube 5-6 mm. 

 long, its narrowly campanulate throat about 3 cm. long, its limb about 1.5 cm. 

 long, the lobes nearly entire. 



Limestone cliffs, Sardinera, Mona Island, Porto Rico (Britton, Cowell and Hess, 

 1686). 



SESAMUM ORIENTALE L. 



Cultivated ground, coastal plain. Native of the East Indies. 



BLECHUM BROWNEI Juss. 



Shaded rocks, Sardinera: Porto Rico; Hispaniola; Bahamas. 



JUSTICIA PERIPLOCIFOLIA Jacq. 



Occasional on the coastal plain, a narrow-leaved race: Porto Rico; His- 

 paniola. 



JUSTICIA PECTORALIS Jacq. 



Border of pool, Sardinera: Porto Rico; Hispaniola. 



PLANTAGO MAJOR L. 



Cultivated ground, coastal plain. Not collected. Native of the Old World. 



EXOSTEMA CARIBAEUM (Jacq.) R. & S. 



Frequent on the coastal plain and on the plateau: Porto Rico; Hispaniola; 

 Bahamas. 



RANDIA ACULEATA L. 



Common on the coastal plain and on the plateau: Porto Rico; Hispaniola; 

 Bahamas ; Curacao. 



