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yellow quite eclipses white and other colors. As in our other southern 

 dogbanes the clear yellow of the corollas is in striking contrast with 

 the dark green or deep green foliage. 



This little allaraanda grows very abundantly throughout the 

 pinelands of the Everglade Keys and in the adjacent Everglades. 

 It blooms throughout the year, but more copiously during the 

 spring and summer. 



Considering the abundance of this plant within its geographic 

 range on the Florida mainland it seems strange that specimens were 

 not collected there many years ago. The earliest specimens we 

 have seen were collected on Pine Key* of the Florida reef, evidently 

 before the middle of the last century, by J. L. Blodgett. During 

 the forties of the nineteenth century Blodgett, who resided on Key 

 West, made collections of the plants of the lower Florida Keys. 

 These represent the first relatively complete collection of the flora 

 of those islands and the only one that amounted to much until 

 the writer and his associates took up the exploration of the Florida 

 Keys a few years ago. In 1903, after a lapse of fully fifty years, 

 this plant was discovered on the Florida mainland by the writer, 

 and he subsequently rediscovered it on Big Pine Key. 



The specimen from which the accompanying illustration was made 

 was collected by the writer in pinewoods on the reservation of 

 Charles Deering at Cutler, Florida, May, 1918. 



John K. Small. 



Explanation of Plate. Fig. 1. — Flowering stem. Fig. 2. — Base of stem. 

 Fig. 3. — Fruit. 



* Both Big Pine Key and Little Pine Key were involved in the early collections 

 from the Florida reef. However, Pine Key was usually used to designate Big 

 Pine Key. 



