170 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



line limestone near Caleta Grande, May 22, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 468; A. H. Lanier, in 1831 (Achille Richard, in Sagra, " Historia 

 Fisica, Politica y Natural de la Isla de Cuba," X, 1845, p. 157). Gen- 

 eral Distribution: Cuba, the Isle of Pines, Jamaica, San Domingo, 

 and Yucatan. 



Not seen in the northern part of the island. At Siguanea a fine 

 row of these trees had been left when the mangrove fringe was cleared 

 away, just back of the bathing beach. The trees were highly orna- 

 mental, with dense heads of lustrcus foliage and a whitish smooth 

 bark. They were about thirty feet high, the trunks with a diameter 

 of about sixteen inches. Along the south coast near Caleta Grande 

 the species was also quite abundant, particularly along the bluffs near 

 the sea. The tree from which specimens were taken was about forty 

 feet high and with a trunk about twelve inches in diameter. 



Family CYRILLACE^. 



Key to the Species Enumerated. 

 Leaves manifestly petioled; flowers not over 3 mm. long. .410. Cyrtlla racemiflora. 

 Leaves narrowed to a sessile base; outer sepals showy, rose-tinted, and up to 15 

 mm. long 411. Costcea cubensis. 



410. Cyrilla racemiflora Linnaeus. 



Cyrilla racemiflora Linnaeus, Mantissa Plantarum, I, 1767, p. 50. 



Cyrilla racemifera Vandelli, Florae Lusitanicae et Brasiliensis Specimen, No. 88, 



1788. 

 Ilea cyrilla Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum Vegetabilium Indiae Occidentalis, 



1788, p. 50. 

 Cyrilla anlillana Michaux, Flora Boreali-Americana, I, 1803, p. 158. 



Near Nueva Gerona, May 9, 1904, A. H. Ciirtiss, No. 4Q0; tree, 

 on the bank of the river at Los Indios, May 20, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 4j6. General Distribution: Along the coastal plain from North 

 Carolina to Florida and Texas, West Indies, Guiana, and northern 

 Brazil. 



411. Costaea cubensis A. Richard. 



Costcea cubensis A. Richard, in Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la 

 Isla de Cuba, H, 1850, p. 76, PI. 53. 



In pine-barrens east of Los Indios, May 17, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 326. General Distribution: Cuba and the Isle of Pines, this 

 being the first report for the latter island. 



A low shrub with few branches, these ranging from more or less 



