Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 153 



357. Banisteria laurifolia Linnaeus. 



Banisieria laurifolia Linn^us, Species Plantarum, Ed. II, 1762, p. 611. 

 Banisteria cceridea L.a.m.\rck, Encyclopedic Methodique, Botanique, I, 1783, p. 367. 

 Heleropteris carulea Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth, DeCandolle's Prodromus 



Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, I, 1824, p. 591. 

 Heleropteris laurifolia Jussieu, Annalesdes Sciences NatureIles,Ser. II, XIII, 1840, 



p. 276. 



Small bushy tree about 12 feet in height, western base of Caballos 

 Mts., May 9, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 184. General Distribution: 

 West Indies, Mexico, and Central America. 



358. Malphigia horrida Small. 



Malphigia coccigera var. ilicifolia Wright, in Grisebach's Catalogus Plantarum 



Cubensium, 1866, p. 43. 

 Malphigia ilicifolia Wright, in Niedenzu, De Genere Malphigia, 1899, p. 18, 



not M. ilicifolia Miller, 1768. 

 Malphigia horrida Small, North American Flora, XXV, 1910, p. 160. 



On very sterile almost barren iron-gravel soil between Los Indios 

 and the Cafiada Mts., May 18, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 371. Forms 

 low shrubby mats. Flowers pink, one-half to three-quarters of an 

 inch across. Blain. No. 36, reported by Millspaugh as M. coccigera L., 

 is presumably this more recently described species. General Distri- 

 bution: Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



359. Byrsonima crassifolia (Linnaeus) DeCandolle. Cork-wood, 



Malphigia crassifolia Linn.^us, Species Plantarum, Ed. I, 1753, p. 126. 



Malphigia cinerea Poiret, Lamarck's Encyclopedic Methodique, Botanique, 

 Suppl., IV, i8i6, p. 7. 



Byrsonima cinerea DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vege- 

 tabilis, I, 1824, p. 580. 



Byrsonima crassifolia DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni 

 Vegetabilis, I, 1824, p. 579. 



Malphigia cubensis Jussieu, Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Ser. II, XIII, 1840, 

 p. 33,2,- 



Near Nueva Gerona, April and May, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 216. 

 Bushy tree about 15 feet in height, savanna near Nueva Gerona, 

 May 5, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 3; along wet bank of arroyo near 

 Nueva Gerona, May 6, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 63 & 645; on "Mal 

 Pais" gravel in savanna near Santa Fe, May 25, 1910, 0. E. Jennings. 

 No. 647. "Crescit in insula Pinorum" (A. Richard, in Sagra, " His- 

 toria Fisica, Politica y Natural de la Isla de Cuba," X, 1845, p. no, 

 as Byrsonima cinerea); northern part of the island, Blain, No. 136 



