614 Brixton: Pisonia 



6. Torrubia longifolia (Heimerl). 



Pisonia discolor longifolia Heimerl, Bot. Jahrb. 21:627. 1896. 



Pisonia obtusata Chapm. South. Fl. 374. i860. Not Jacq. 



Leaves thin, the blades obovate to spatulate, 5 cm. long or 

 less, or on young shoots longer, 2 to 4 times as long as wide, 

 rounded or often emarginate at the apex, the very slender petioles 

 8-1 3 mm. long ; fruiting corymbs dense or loose ; fruit very juicy, 

 shining, bright red to magenta red, obovoid-cylindric to globose- 

 obovoid, often depressed at the top, the anthocarp 5-6 mm. long. 



Type from the Bahamas, where it is very abundant in coastal 

 coppices. 



Bahamas : New Providence, Brace 129 and 387 ; Coker 15 and 

 41 ; Britton & Brace 164, 166, 178 and 292 ; Andros, Northrop 

 317 ; St. George's Cay, Coker 316 ; Watling Island, Coker 472. 



Florida : Key West, Blodgett, " large tree flowering in the 

 summer;" same island, Blodgett, "shrub 10-15 feet;" Indian 

 River, Curtiss 2338 ; Palm Beach, Curtiss 5379 ; Miami, Garber, 

 Britton 404 ; Annette Key, Simpson 342, shoots showing the ob- 

 ovate nearly veinless leaves ; Bull Key, Small & Carter 637 and 

 660. 



Cuba : seashore near Matanzas, Rugel 411. 



7. Torrubia Bracei Britton, sp. nov. 



A slender tree, 5 m. high or less, the bark gray. Leaves thin, 

 green on both sides ; petioles very slender, 6-8 mm. long ; blades 

 narrowly obovate, 5 cm. long or less, rounded at the apex, cune- 

 ate-narrowed at the base; fruiting pedicels about 0.5 mm. long ; 

 fruit very juicy, oblong-obovoid, twice as long as thick, claret-red, 

 truncate at the top ; anthocarp 7-8 mm. long, 2 mm. thick. 



Coastal coppice, Ft. Montague, New Providence, Bahamas, 

 Britton & Brace 168, August 23, 1904. 



This grows in company with the next preceding species and 

 w ith P. obtusata, and is certainly different from either of them. 



8. Torrubia inermis (Jacq.). 



Pisonia inermis Jacq. Select. Am. 275. 1763. 



Pisonia obtusata Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 3 : i960. 1806. Not Jacq. 



This type is from Cartagena, South America. The species, as 

 I understand it, is widely distributed in northern South America 

 and in the West Indies south of the Bahamas. It is said by Hei- 

 merl to grow in Florida, but our collections from that State do 

 not contain it. 



