182 FLORA OF NEW PROVIDENCE AND ANDROS 



Gerardia purpurea L. 4-4.5 dm. m height, mostly simple 

 and strict. Red Bays, April (459). 



Lentibulariace^e 



Utricularia foliosa L. Stafford Creek, Andros, May. "No 

 certain determination possible without flowers : the bladders appear 

 like those of U. foliosa which is common in the West Indies." Dr. 

 Thomas Morong (543, 547). 



Utricularia gibba L. Stafford Creek, Andros, May. No 

 flowers. "Leaves and bladders much resemble those of U. gibba 

 which occur in Florida." Dr. Thomas Morong (548). 



Pinguicula pumila Michx. Rare; on the edge of the swash 

 on the west side of Andros. Red Bays, May (572). 



BlGNONIACE^E 



Tecoma lepidophylla Griseb. Purser Point, Andros, June 

 (660). Same as Wright 1341. 

 Tecoma sp. 



Medium-sized shrub, twigs rusty-lepidote ; leaves digitate, with 

 three or five leaflets, petioles 1-2 cm. long, channeled above, spar- 

 ingly rusty-lepidote, petiolules 2.5 mm. long, central, one-half as 

 long again as the lateral; leaflets 2.5-4.5 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. 

 broad, obovate or oval, retuse or emarginate and mucronate at apex, 

 -obtuse and usually unequal at base, margin crenulate, veins promi- 

 nent below; leaves thick, sparingly lepidote above; scales abundant 

 ■beneath, the larger ones rusty, giving the under surface a slightly 

 brownish tint; flowers not seen; calyx bilabiate, rusty-lepidote, at 

 length deciduous, 7-10 mm. in length, lobes acute; capsule linear, 

 pointed, subcompressed, 6-9 cm. long, rusty-lepidote; valves slightly 

 keeled. 



Collected at Long Ridge Cay, Andros, June 20 (758). 



Tecoma Bahamensis sp. nov. "Beef-bush" 



A tall shrub, twigs light brown, lepidote; leaves opposite, pal- 

 mately compound, with five leaflets, petioles 3-5 cm. in length, 

 flattened and channeled above; leaflets all petiolulate, petiolule 

 of the central leaflet about 1 cm. in length, being slightly longer 

 than those of the lateral leaflets and more than twice as long as those 

 of the basal leaflets, leaflets oblong or oblong-elliptical, sometimes 

 oblanceolate, 2-4 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm - wide, the central leaflet largest, 



