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seems to have had more attention from botanists and several have made 

 extended collections through portions of the state. The Velero III visited 

 Chacagua Bay on March 21, 1939. Francis H. Elmore went ashore and 

 made a small collection of plants, consisting of 27 numbers representing 

 26 species. These together with the 25 numbers, representing 22 species, 

 from Tenacatita Bay, Jalisco are catalogued below. 



CATALOGUE OF COLLECTIONS 



POLYPODIACEAE 



Lygodium venustum Sw. in Schrad., Jour. 1801 2:303. 1803. 

 Tenacatita Bay, May 8, Elmore 1A12^ along dry stream bank. 

 Southern Mexico through Central America to Brazil and the West 

 Indies. 



Bromeliaceae 



TiLLANDSIA FASCICULATA Sw., Prodr. 56. 1788. 



Tenacatita Bay, Jalisco, May 8, Ehnore 1A17, epiphytic on Cono- 

 carpus erectus. 



Widely distributed in tropical America from Florida and the West 

 Indies to Mexico and Central America to Colombia and Guiana. It is 

 a highly polymorphic species and has been divided into many varieties. 



PiPERACEAE 



Piper aff. misantlense CDC. in DC, Prodr. 161 :286. 1869. 



Tenacatita Bay, Jalisco, May 8, Elmore 1A20. 



Vera Cruz and perhaps elsewhere. 



The above collection with pubescent branchlets is doubtfully referred 

 to this species, which is described as having glabrous branchlets. It agrees 

 fairly well with herbarium material labeled P. misantlense. 



Piper tuberculatum Jacq., Icon. PL Rar. 2:2. 1786. 

 Tenacatita Bay, Jalisco, May 8, Elmore 1A22. 

 From Vera Cruz and Nayarit south through tropical America. It is 

 one of the few species of Piper having a wide distribution. 



MORACEAE 



Ficus MEXiCANA Miquel, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 3:300. 1867. 



Tenacatita Bay, Jalisco, May 8, Elmore lAlO, rocky sandy soil of 

 hot dry forest along a dry stream bank of 15 feet elevation. 



In Mexico from southern Sonora south to Oaxaca; reported also to 

 be in Yucatan. 



The trees along the west coast of Mexico which taxonomists have 

 assigned to Miquel's name are among the largest in the genus. They 

 affect the open streamways, as the intermittent arroyos, which though 



