Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 141 



Cenlrosema virginianum var. angustifoUiim Grisebach, Flora of the British West 



Indian Islands, i860, p. 193. 

 Bradburya cubana Britton. Herbarium name, not published. 



Near Nueva Gerona, February 14, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. J4J. 

 General Distribution: Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



322. Bradburya pubescens (Bentham) Kuntze. 



Cenlrosema pubescens Bentham, Annalen d. K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, 



VVien, II, 1838, p. 119. 

 Bradburya pubescens Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum, I, 1891, p. 164. 



Near Nueva Gerona, December 16, 1903, A. II. Curtiss, No. 232; 

 between Los Indies and La Cafiada Mts., May 18, 1910, 0. E. Jen- 

 nings, No. 6ji. General Distribution: Cuba, the Isle of Pines, the 

 West Indies generally; continental tropical America. 



323. Erythrina Berteroana Urban. 

 Eryihrina Berteroana Urban, Symbola: Antillanac, V, 1908, p. 370. 



Near Nueva Gerona, January 11, 1904, A. II. Curtiss, No. 284; 

 low shrub near Caleta Grande, "South Coast," May 22, 1910, 0. E. 

 Jennings, No. 466. General Distrbution: Cuba, the Isle of Pines, 

 Colombia. 



The Caleta Grande specimen was in fruit. Its pods being 8-14 cm. 

 long, strongly moniliform, about I cm. thick but the constrictions 

 only about 3-5 mm. in diameter, the pod greenish brown in color, 

 tapering below into a stipe about 2 cm. long, abruptly terminated at 

 the apex by a stiff acumination about 2-2.5 cm. long. The seeds are 

 about 8-10 mm. long, by about 5 mm. thick, brick-red, shining. 

 The Curtiss specimen {West Indian Plants, No. 2S4) was distributed 

 under the name of Erythrina carnca Alton. 



324. Erythrina sp. 



Specimen with a few llowers and immature pods, gathered from a 

 leafless tree about 14 feet high, on the top of Caballos Mts., May 13, 

 1 9 10, 0. E. Jennings, No. 232. 



Too incomplete for definite identification. The flowers have an 

 obtusely and shallowly two-lipped caly.x about 8 mm. long, the 

 corolla being red (probably scarlet) with a closely folded standard 

 about 3 cm. long and about 6 mm. wide when in the normal folded 

 position. 



