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270. Nectandra coriacea (Swartz) Grisebach. Laurel. 



Laurus coriacea Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum Vegetabilium Indiae Occi- 



dentalis, 1788, p. 65. 

 Nectandra Willdenowiana Nees, Systema Laurincarum, 1836, p. 321 (non 290). 

 Nectandra sanguinea Grisebach, Flora of the British West Indian Islands, i860, 



p. 281. 



Near Nueva Gerona, June 4, 1904, A. 11. Cnrtiss, No. 526; near 

 Los Indies, along the river, May 18, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 653. 

 General Distribution: Southern Florida, the Bahamas, throughout 

 the West Indies, and in Yucatan. In Jamaica (Fawcett & Rendle, 

 Flora of Jamaica, III, 1914, p. 217) this species is variously called 

 sweetwood, cap-berry sweetwood, small-leaved sweetwood. Mez 

 (Urban's "Symbolae Antillanae," IV, 1905, p. 249) gives, as common 

 names, avispillo and laurel. 



Millspaugh in his " Plantse Insulae Ananasensis" (Field Columb. 

 Mus., Bot., I, 1900, p. 427) reports for the island: Nectandra patens 

 (Swartz) Grisebach, and Nectandra exaltata Grisebach. These 

 reports are founded upon Blain, No. go (Sante Fe, June) and Blain, 

 No. 116. 



Authors writing subsequently have not credited Nectandra patens 

 to localities other than Jamaica, Porto Rico, Haiti, and Martinique 

 (^ee Fawcett & Rendle, and Mez, in the works cited above). 



Family PAPAVERACE^. 

 271. Argemone mexicana var. ochroleuca (Sweet) Lindley. • 

 Prickly Poppy. Mexican Thistle. 



Argemone ochroleuca Sweet, British Flower Garden, III, 1828, PL 242. 

 Arge7none mexicana var. ochroleuca Lindley, Botanical Register, 1830, p. 1343. 



Argemone mexicana var Torrey & Gray, Flora of North America, I, 



1838, p. 61. 



Weed in field on Keenan's estate south of Nueva Gerona, May 9, 

 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. igo; near Nueva Gerona, June 12, 1912, 

 G. A. Link. General Distribution: From the United States south, 

 through the West Indies and Mexico, to the southern part of South 

 America, also escaped in Australia and in Europe. 



Family CAPPARIDACE^. 

 Key to the Species Herein Enumerated. 



Leaves digitately compound with 5-7 leaflets 272. Cleome spinosa. 



Leaves simple. 



