136 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



the island the Granadillo occurs in large numbers in thickets or as 

 scattered plants. The plants grow to a height of from six or eight 

 up to perhaps fifteen feet, with a rounded crown of stiff bushy branches. 

 The wood is hard, heavy, and takes a beautiful polish, the light 

 yellowish sapwood contrasting strikingly with the seal-brown heart- 

 wood. 



307. ^schynomene sensitiva Swartz. 



jEschynomene sensitiva Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum Vegetabilium Indiae 



Occidentalis, 1788, p. 107. 

 jEschynomene fisttdosa Bello, Anales de la Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural, 



X, 1881, p. 259. 



Near Nueva Gerona, January 19, 1904, A. H. Curliss, No. 300. 

 General Distribution: Widely distributed through the West Indies 

 and continental tropical America, also in the tropics of Africa. 



308. .ffischynomene tenuis Grisebach. 

 ^schynomene tenuis Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, p. 72. 



Near Nueva Gerona, December 18, 1903, A. H. Curtiss, No. 241; 

 in pasture on dry savanna land near Nueva Gerona, May 5, 1910, 

 0. E. Jennings, No. ig; same locality, May 14, 191 o, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 248; near Nueva Gerona, June 10, 191 2, G. A. Link; near Los 

 Indios, November 4, 1912, G. A. Link; northern part of the island, 

 Blain, No. 24 (Millspaugh). General Distribution: Western Cuba 

 and the Isle of Pines. 



309. Zornia diphylla (Linnaeus) Persoon. 



Hedysarum diphyllum Linn^us, Species Plantarum, II, Ed. I, 1753, p. 747. 



Zornia diphylla Persoon, Synopsis Plantarum, II, 1807, p. 318. 



Zornia reticulata J. E. Smith, Rees's New Encyclopedia, XXXIX, 1818, no. 2. 



Near Nueva Gerona, February, 1904, A. JI. Curtiss, No. 340; 

 field near Nueva Gerona, May 6, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 635; 

 northern part of the island, Blain No. ini (Millspaugh). General 

 Distribution: Widely distributed throughout the tropics of both 

 hemispheres, occurring on most of the West Indian islands. In the 

 Isle of Pines found mainly in pastured lands, repeatedly burned over, 

 the plants coming up year after year from a woody partly subterranean 



base. 



310. Meibomia supina (Swartz) Britton. 



Hedysarum supinum Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum Vegetabilium Indiae 

 Occidentalis, 1788, p. 106. 



