112 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Antillanae, I, 1899, p. 227) to C. laurifolia, represent a form having a 

 large leaf with an obtuse base and a strong wide petiole, very much 

 in contrast to the specimens from the Isle of Pines. The latter speci- 

 mens have leaves up to about 7 cm. long and 2.5 cm. wide, acute or 

 even acuminate at the base, while the petiole is comparatively slender. 

 Florida plants referable to Lindau's C. Curtissii are, in fact, very 

 closely related to the specimens from the Tsle of Pines, as to leaf 



characters. 



Family AMARANTACE^. 



Key to the Species Enumerated. 

 Leaves alternate. 



A climbing shrub with herbaceous branches, and spikes of flowers arranged in 



slender panicles; axils not spinose 249. Chamissoa allissima. 



Non-climbing, and with flowers spicate, mostly terminal; axils bispinose. 



250. Aynaranthus spinosus. 

 Leaves opposite. 



Leaves obovate-roundish; flowers in very long slender spikes. 



251. Centrostachys indica. 

 Leaves narrower; flowers not in particularly slender spikes. 



Plant glabrous. 



Leaves narrowlj' oblong-lanceolate, not fleshy 255. Iresine keyensis. 



Leaves sessile, linear, fleshy; sea-shore plant. 



254. Philoxerus vermicularis . 

 Plants more or less pubescent, at least in the inflorescence. 

 Leaves long-stalked, oblanceolate to elliptical. 



253. AUernanthera paronichioides. 

 Leaves woolly, oblong-elliptical, narrowed to a semi-clasping base. 



252. Gomphrena dispersa. 



249. Chamissoa altissima (Jacquin) Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth. 



Achyranihes altissima Jacquin, Enumeratio Plantarum, 1760, p. 17. 



Celosia paniculata Linn^us, Species Plantarum, L Ed. II, 1762, p. 298 (non 



Linnaeus, 1753). 

 Kokera paniculata O. Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum, II, 1891, p. 542. 

 Chamissoa altissima Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth, Nova Genera et Species 



Plantarum, II, 1817, p. 197, t. 125. 



Near Nueva Gerona, January 4, 1904, A. H. Ciirtiss, No. 269; 

 Pedernales Point, February 16, 1899, C. F. MiUspaugh, No. 1420 

 (Field Columb. Mus., Bot. II, 1900, pp. 39-40). General Distri- 

 bution: West Indies, generally, and continental tropical America. 



250. Amaranthus spinosus Linnaeus, 

 Amaranthus spinosus Linn.eus, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 991. 



"An old garden spot at Pedernales Point, Isle of Pines, (1425) 



