NO. 6 gentry: land plants 17 



SAPINDACEAE 

 DoDONEA viscosA Jacq. 



Buccoo Bay, April 20, Elmore V6; on sandy upper beach. 



Distribution: Widely distributed in arid and semi-arid soils of the 

 tropics and subtropics of the Americas. 



MALVACEAE 



Malvastrum coromandelianum (L.) Garcke 



Rockley Bay, Scarborough, April 19, Elmore Ul; roadside, flowers 

 yellow. 



Distribution : Widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions. 

 SiDA ACUTA Burm. 



Buccoo Bay, April 20, Elmore V18; in moist shaded soil by ditch. 

 Flowers orange colored. 



Distribution : Widely scattered in tropical and subtropical regions. 



PLUMBAGINACEAE 

 Plumbago scandens L. 



Buccoo Bay, April 20, Elmore V26. 



Distribution : Widely distributed in tropical America. 



CONVOLVULACEAE 



Ipomoea polyanthes R. & S. 



Buccoo Bay, April 20, Elmore V25, shaded in moist clay soil in a 

 ditch. 



Distribution: Widely distributed in lowlands of tropical America, 

 type from Martinique, Santo Domingo. 



The yellow flowers and congested umbels normally characterize this 

 species. The present collection is atypical in having but 2 to 4 flowers to 

 the umbel. 

 Operculina dissecta (Jacq.) House 



Buccoo Bay, April 20, Elmore V23; flowers pink with a dark pink 

 center, collected in moist clay soil in a ditch. 



BORAGINACEAE 



CORDIA MACROSTACHYA (Jacq.) R. & S. 



Buccoo Bay, April 20, Elmore V5 ; dry, hot sand of upper beach. 

 Distribution: Southern Mexico to South America and the West 

 Indies. 



