208 Britton : The genus Ernodea 



Bahamas : Sand dunes, Clarence Town, Long Island, March 

 16-19, 1907 {Britton & Mills pangh 624g, type); Grand Turk 

 {Nash & Taylor 3801). The Grand Turk specimens differ from 

 the type in having calyx-lobes a little longer and narrower and 

 approach the plant of Great Ragged Island {P. Wilson 7880), E. 

 littoralis. This might be regarded as a race of E. littoralis with 

 short calyx-lobes. 



5. Ernodea Taylori sp. nov. 



Spreading, with long slender branches, glabrous. Leaves nar- 

 rowly linear, stiff, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, 1.5-2 mm. wide, revolute-mar- 

 gined, spinulose-tipped, the stipules triangular-subulate ; flowers not 

 seen ; fruit golden-yellow, oval, 5 mm. long, the calyx-lobes nar- 

 rowly linear, 2 mm. long. 



Bahamas: In white land, Tenados, Inagua, Oct. 14, 1904 

 {Nash & Taylor 1024). 



The foliage resembles that of E. Cokeri, but the calyx is alto- 

 gether different. 



6. Ernodea Nashii sp. nov. 



Prostrate, glabrous throughout, the branches 6 dm. long or 

 more, the branchlets erect or ascending, 0.5-2 dm. high, the twigs 

 very densely clothed with leaves. Leaves linear-oblanceolate, 

 leathery in texture, 2-2.5 cm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, mucronulate ; 

 flowering calyx 4.5 mm. long, its lobes acute, 1.5 mm. long; 

 corolla 1.5 cm. long, its lobes white within, brown without, about 

 one third as long as the tube ; fruit ovoid-oval, 5 mm. long, the 

 persistent acute calyx-lobes 1.5 mm. long. 



Bahamas : Little Inagua, Moujean Harbor {Nash & Taylor 

 II gj, type) ; west end of Little Inagua {P. Wilson 7782). 



