146 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



beads," or "Jequirity," as to make it almost impossible to separate 

 them when mixed. Kunth notes that the seeds of this species are 

 strung on strings for rosaries in the same manner as those of Abrus. 



338. Eriosema crinitum (Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth) G. Don. 



Glycine crinita Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth, Nova Genera et Species Plan- 



tarum, VI, 1823, p. 421, PI. 573. 

 Rhynchosia crinita DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vege- 



tabilis, II, 1825, p. 389. 

 Eriosema crinitum G. Don, General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants, II, 



1832, p. 348. 



Near Nueva Gerona, December 16, 1903, A. H. Curtiss, No. 2jj; 

 savanna near Nueva Gerona, May 5, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 20; 

 open pine woods west of La Canada Mts., May 18, 1910, 0. E. Jen- 

 nings, No. 634; northern part of the island, Blain, No. 47, reported 

 by Millspaugh, Field Columbian Miiseum, Botany, I, 1900, p. 428. 

 General Distribution: Cuba, Isle of Pines, and from Mexico to South 



America. 



339. Phaseolus adenanthus Meyer. 



Phaseolus adenanthus Meyer, Primitiae Florae Essequeboensis, 1818, p. 239. 

 Phaseolus truxillensis Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth, Nova Genera et Species 



Plantarum, VI, 1823, p. 451. 

 Phaseolus cochleatus Bello, Anales de la Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural, 



X, 1881, p. 253. 



Near Nueva Gerona, January 31 and March 20, 1904, A. II. Curtiss, 

 No. JIQ. General Distribution: The Isle of Pines, Jamaica, Guade- 

 loupe, Martinique, St. Vincent, Tobago, and in various localities in 

 tropical continental America and the tropics of the Old World. 



340. Phaseolus lathyroides Linnaeus (?). 



Phaseolus lathyroides Linn^us, Species Plantarum, II, Ed. II, 1763, p. 1018. 

 Phaseolus semierectus 'LiTSiyiMvs, Mantissa Plantarum, I, 1767, p. 100. 



Near Nueva Gerona, February and April, 1904, A. II. Curtiss, 

 No. 357; pastured lands west of Nueva Gerona, May 5, 191 o, 0. E. 

 Jennings, No. 36. Flowers flesh-pink. General Distribution: Tropics 

 of America and Asia, extending in America as far north as the West 

 Indies and Bahamas. 



The specimens seen from the Isle of Pines have small linear-oblong 

 leaves, the largest being 3 mm. wide and about 15-18 mm. long, at 

 the apex mucronulate, obtuse, the edges revolute, and both sides 



