428 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



to 4 millimeters long, densely pubescent ; iuflorescence 

 axillary, usually near the ends of the branchlets ; pedun- 

 cles about 3 to 5 millimeters long, equaling the petioles, 

 often terminated by the three short-pedicelled flowers : 

 calyx 4-merous, united above the ovary for about one- 

 third its length ; lobes linear, acute, 2 millimeters long : 

 corolla tubular, 7 millimeters long, retrorsely strigillose- 

 pubescent ; lobes rotund: youug capsule ovoid-globose and 

 (as well as the calyx) densely pubescent ; mature capsule 7 

 millimeters long. — Collected by Robert Combs at Calicita, 

 Cuba, August 24, 1895, no. 527. Although this plant is 

 stated by Mr. Combs to be common on sea banks and coast 

 hills at the above named station, it does not agree with any 

 described species known to the author. The plant is habitally 

 much like R. Camarioca, Wright and R. chamaebuxifolia, 

 Griseb., but differs from the former in foliage and especially 

 in the characters of the calyx, and from the latter by the 

 pubescent leaves, longer petioles, and less divided calyx." — 

 Plate xxxiv. 



Rachicallis rupestris DC. 



Along the barren rocks of the sea-shore, common. Castillo 

 de Jagua, Sept, 16, '95. (566.) 



Ham eli a patens Jacq. 



Not uncommon in upland woods, fertile soil. Cieneguita, 

 May 11, '95. (29.) 



Catesbaea spinosa L. " Catesbea." 



A shrub, 6 to 10 feet high, along river banks in sandy 

 fertile soil. Rio Damuji, Santa Rosalia, Aug. 2, '95. (384.) 



Catesbaea nana Green man, n. sp. 



" A small, glabrous or slightly puberulent shrub, 10 to 30 

 centimeters high, branching rather profusely from the base: 

 branches provided with numerous axillary spines, these about 

 1 centimeter long, slightly exceeding the internodes : leaves 

 elliptic to broadly ovate, 2 to 5 millimeters long, two-thirds 

 as broad, obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base into a 



