Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. Ill 



245. Antigonum leptopus Hooker & Arnott. 



Anligonum leptopus Hooker & Arnott, Capt. Beechey's Voyage, Botanical 

 Appendix, 1840, p. 308, PI. 69. 



Near Nueva Gerona, March and April, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 411; 

 near Nueva Gerona, June 3, 1912, G. A. Link. General Distribution: 

 Native to Mexico, but commonly escaping from cultivation in the 

 Bahamas and West Indies. 



246. Coccolobis uvifera (Linnaeus) Jacquin. Sea Grape. 



Polygonum uvifera Linn^us, Species Plantarum, I, Ed. i, 1753, p. 365. 



Coccoloba leoganensis Jacquin, Enumeratio Plantarum, 1760, p. 19. 



Uvifera leoganensis O. Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum, II, 1891, p. 623. 



Low bushy tree at border of strand at Bibijagua, May 7, 1910, 

 0. E. Jennings, No. 87; no locality given, February-March, 1910, 

 Jared F. Shafer; near Nueva Gerona, May, 1912, G. A. Link. General 

 Distribution: Southern Florida, the Bahamas, Bermuda, and south 

 through Central and South America, always within reach of salt 



water. 



247. Coccolobis retusa Grisebach. 



Coccoloba retusa Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, p. 61. 



Coccoloba leoganensis var. parvifolia Grisebach, I. c. 



Uvifera retusa O. Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum, II, 1891, p. 562. 



Northern part of the island, Blain, No. 183, reported by Mills- 

 paugh, Plantce Instdce Ananasensis, Field Columbian Museum, 

 Botanical Series I, No. 6, 1900, p. 427. General Distribution: West- 

 ern Cuba, Santo Domingo (?), and the Isle of Pines. 



248. Coccolobis laurifolia Jacquin. 



Coccoloba laurifolia Jacquin, Plantarum Rariorum Horti Caesarei SchcEnbrunensis 



Descriptiones, etc. Ill, 1798, p. 9, t. 267. 

 Coccoloba Jloridana Meissner in DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis 



Regni Vegetabilis, XVI, 1857, p. 165. 

 Uvifera laurifolia O. Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum, II, 1891, p. 561. 



South of Sante Fe, May 25, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 656. General 

 Distribution: Florida, Bahamas, most of the West Indian islands, 

 Venezuela. 



The writer has not seen the Blain specimen reported by Millspaugh 

 as C. retusa, but there is a strong possibility that the specimen here 

 referred to {Jennings, No. 656) is the same species. Specimens such 

 as the Porto Rican Sintenis, No. 3945, referred by Lindau (Symbolse 



