164 FLORA OF NEW PROVIDENCE AND ANDROS 



Southwest Beach, N.P., Jan.; Red Bays, April (87, 457). No. 672, 

 a form with leaves not appressed, was collected at Big Cabbage 

 Creek on the west side of Andros in June. Same as Wright 2016. 



Euphorbia cassythoides Boiss. Rare, Deep Creek, June 

 (702). Determined at Kew, 1897. 



Euphorbia heterophylla L. Common in the pines. New- 

 Providence, Jan. (96). 



Euphorbia heterophylla graminifolia Engelm. Same lo- 

 cality (92). 



Euphorbia nutans Lag. Common. Nassau, Jan.; Nicol's 

 Town, March (229, 380). Our specimens agree with Professor 

 Hitchcock's in having the upper internodes slender, especially in 

 229, and no dark spots on the leaves. (See Hitchcock's Report, 

 Plants of the Bahamas, Jamaica and Grand Cayman.) 



Euphorbia serpens Kunth. Nassau, Jan. (277). Same as 

 specimen of Rugel, No. 148 marked E. serpens var. ? Much branched, 

 delicate, with slender wiry stems, enlarged nodes, leaves 3-4 mm. in 

 length. 



Euphorbia pulcherrima (Graham) Boiss. "Poinsettia." Nas- 

 sau, common in cultivation. 



Euphorbia antiquorum L. Nassau, cultivated. 



Hura crepitans L. "Sand-box tree." Nassau, cultivated. 



Anacardiace^e 



Metopium Metopium (L.) Small. "Poison-wood." Com- 

 mon in the coppet on both islands. Nassau, Jan.; Conch Sound, 

 May (70, 552). Same as Wright 2287, Curtiss 448. 



MORINGACE^E 



Moringa Moringa (L.) Small. "Horse-radish tree." Nassau, 

 cultivated (310). 



Celastrace^e 



El.eodendrum xylocarpum DC. Nassau, Jan. (71). In 

 fruit only. Determined by Mr. M. L. Fernald, Cambridge. 



Maytenus buxifolius (Rich.) Griseb. Fresh Creek, June. 

 Differs from Wright 2215 and all other specimens examined in having 



