120 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Herbaceous plant, woody at base; leaves linear-lanceolate. 



273. Cleome procumbens. 

 Shrub or tree, 3-15 m. high; leaves elliptic or oblong-elliptic. 



274. Capparis jamaicensis. 



272. Cleome spinosa Jacquin. 



Cleome spinosa Jacquin, Enumeratio Plantarum Quas in Insulis Caribseis Detexit, 



1760, p. 26. 

 Cleome pungens Willdenow, Enumeratio Plantarum Horti Botanici Berolinensis, 



II, 1809, p. 689. 



Outskirts of Nueva Gerona, May 6, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 642. 

 General Distribution: Widely distributed in the West Indies and 

 tropical and subtropical continental America. 



273. Cleome procumbens Jacquin. 



Cleome procumbens Jacquin, Selectarium Stirpium Americanarum Historia, 1788, 



p. 189, PI. 120. 



Northern part of the island, Blain, No. 4Q. Reported by Mills- 

 paugh in "Plantse Insulse Ananasensis" (Field Columb. Mus., Bot, I, 

 1900, p. 427). General Distribution: Cuba, Isle of Pines, and Haiti. 



274. Capparis jamaicensis Jacquin. 



Capparis jamaicensis Jacquin, Enumeratio Plantarum Quas in Insulis Caribaeis 



Detexit, 1760, p. 23. 

 Capparis Breynia Swartz, Observationes Botanicse, 1791. P- 210 (non Jacquin). 

 Capparis nitida Sesse & MogiNO, Flora Mexicana, Ed. II, 1894, p. 129 (not Ruiz 



& Pavon). 



Tree about 7 m. high, in mangrove swamp along east bank of lower 

 Nuevas River, May 16, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 2QI. General 

 Distribution: From southern Florida and the Bahamas south through 

 the West Indies. Called in Jamaica "Black Willow" or "Zebra 

 Wood," and in Porto Rico said to go by the name of "Burro" or 

 "Palo de burro prieto." 



The flowers of the specimens collected had four purple petals. 

 The filaments were purple and the stamens yellow. 



Family CRUCIFER.^. 

 275. Cakile lanceolata (Willdenow) O. E. Schultz. 

 Raphanus lanceolatus Willdenow, Species Plantarum, III, 1801, p. 562. 

 Cakile domingensis TussAC, Flora Antillarum, I, 1808, p. 119. 



Cakile cequalis L'Heritier, in DeCandolle, Regni Vegetabilis Systema Naturale, 

 II, 1821, p. 430. 



