114 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



254. Philoxerus vermicularis (Linnaeus) Beauvois. 



Gomphrena vermicularis Linn^us, Species Plantarum, I, ed. i, 1753, p. 224. 

 Illecebrum vermiculatum Linn^us, Species Plantarum, I, Ed. II, 1762, p. 300. 

 Iresine vermicularis Moquin, in DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis 



Regni Vegetabilis, XIII, (II), 1849, p. 340. 

 Lithophila vermiculare Uline, Field Columbian Museum, Botanical Series, II, 1900, 



P- 39- 



Sandy beach at Bibijagua, May 7, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. y6; 

 northern part of the island, Blain, No. y6 (Millspaugh, Field Columb. 

 Mus., Bot. I, 1900, p. 427). General Distribution: Along sea-shores, 

 Florida to Texas, Bahamas, West Indies, and in tropical continental 

 America, Western Africa. 



255. Iresine keyensis Millspaugh. 



Iresine keyensis Millspaugh, Field Columbian Museum, Botanical Series, II, 

 1906, pp. 148-149. 



On strand at Caleta Grande, South Coast, May 22, 1910, 0. E. 



Jennings, No. 4q6. General Distribution: Bahama Islands and the 



Isle of Pines. 



Family NYCTAGINACE^. 



Herbs with widely branched panicles; petioles mostly at least half as long as leaf- 

 blade 256. Bcerhaavia paniculata. 



Trees, with compact cymes; petioles quite short 257. Pisonia rotundata. 



256. Bcerhaavia paniculata L. C. Richard. 



Bcerhaavia paniculata L. C. Richard, Actes de la Societe d'Histoire Naturelle de 



Paris, I, 1792, p. 105. 

 Bcerhaavia diffusa Swartz, Observationes Botanicae Quibus Plantae Indiae Occi- 



dentalis, etc. 1791, p. 10. Not Linnaeus. 



"In old garden spot at Pedernales Point, Isle of Pines (1134) " 

 Millspaugh; near Nueva Gerona, February 19, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, 

 No. S59- General Distribution: Tropical continental America and 

 the West Indies. Probably a number of reported localities in this 

 range belong to other species. 



• . 257. Pisonia rotundata Grisebach. 

 Pisonia rotundata Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, p. 283. 



Near Nueva Gerona, April 28, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 470; northern 

 part of the island, Blain, No. 8. (Millspaugh). General Distribution: 

 Western Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



