NO. 6 GENTRY : LAND PLANTS 7 



Fort Nassau, Schottegat Bay, Willemstad, April 23, Elmore W12; 

 flowers yellow, on exposed coralline rock at 10 feet elevation. 



Distribution: West Indies and perhaps elsewhere; the type from 

 Jamaica. 



EUPHORBIACEAE 

 Croton rhamnifolius HBK. 



Fort Nassau, Schottegat Bay, Willemstad, April 23, Elmore W5. 



Distribution : Widely distributed in the coastal littoral of the Carib- 

 bean region. 



Shrub with white flowers on sandy coralline. 

 Jatropha gossypiifolia L. 



Fort Nassau, Schottegat Bay, Willemstad, April 23, Elmore W14; 

 in crevices of uplifted coral reef. 



Distribution : Widely distributed in tropical America ; western Africa. 



A hardy subsucculent shrub with palmately lobed serrate leaves and 

 red flowers. 



CONVOLVULACEAE 



Ipomoea RUBRA (Vahl) Millsp. 



Fort Nassau, Schottegat Bay, Willemstad, April 23, Elmore Wl; 

 on uplifted coral reef, flowers purple. 



Distribution : Central and South America, West Indies, also in Africa. 



Twining vine with slender stems, entire cordate glabrous leaves, 

 minutely aristate sepals, and purple corollas. 



BORAGINACEAE 



Heliotropium angiospermum Murr. 



Fort Nassau, Schottegat Bay, Willemstad, April 23, Elmore W3; 

 coralline sand from uplifted reef, flowers white. 



Distribution: Widely distributed in tierra caliente of the American 

 tropics and subtropics. 



RUBIACEAE 

 Erithalis fructicosa L. 



Fort Nassau, Schottegat Bay, Willemstad, April 23, Elmore WIS. 



Distribution : West Indies. 



Shrub with white flowers collected in shaded, hot, sandy, coralline soil. 



