Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 93 



1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 2Q2. General Distribution: From V'irginia 

 to Florida and Texas, West Indies, and continental tropical America. 

 Very little of the Spanish Moss was seen in the Isle of Pines. 



200. Tillandsia sublaxa Baker. 



Tillandsia sublaxa Baker, Journal of Botany, 1887, p. 307; Handbook of the 

 Bromeliaceae, 1889, p. 188. 



On trees on top of Caballos Mts., May 13, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 2J4. General Distribution: Jamaica, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, 

 Isle of Pines. 



Family COMMELINACE^. 

 201. Commelina hamipila Wright. 



Commelina hamipila Wright, in Sauvalle, Flora Cubana, Anales del Academia de 

 Ciencias Medicas, Fisicas y Naturales de la Habana, V, 1868, no. 157. 



Near Nueva Gerona, March 13, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 407; 

 in swampy place near Bibijagua, May 7, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. q8; 

 in grassy place near the Majagua River north of Los Indios, May 19, 

 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 410. General Distribution; Cuba and the 

 Isle of Pines. 



Family SMILACE^. 

 Key to the Species Enumerated. 



Petioles articulated at the apex; leaves usually spiny-toothed on the nerves beneath. 



202. Stnilax havanensis. 

 Petioles articulated at the middle or below; leaves not spiny. 



203. Stnilax domingensis. 



202. Smilax havanensis variety ovata (Duhamel) A. DeCandolle. 



Smilax havensis Jacquin, Enumeratio Plantarum quas in Insulis Caribaeis Detexit, 



1760, p. 33. 

 Smilax ovata Duhamel, Traite des Arbres et Arbustes que se cultivent en France 



en Pleine Terre, I, Ed. II, 1801, p. 242. 

 Smilax havanensis var. ovata A. DeCandolle, Monographiae Phanerogamarum, 



I, 1878, p. 122. 



Northern part of the island, Blain, No. jg, g^, Millspaugh. 

 General Distribution: Florida, Cuba, the Isle of Pines, and Santo 

 Domingo. 



203. Smilax domingensis Willdenow. 



Smilax domingensis Willdenow, Species Plantarum, IV, (2), 1806, p. 783. 

 Smilax Berteri Sprengel, Systema Vegetabilium, II, 1825, p. 102. 

 Smilax pseudo-china A. Richard, in Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de 

 la Isla de Cuba, XI, 1850, p. 271. Not Linnaeus. 



