Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 171 



stiffly ascending to erect and bearing at the apex a rather close tuft 

 of leaves. The plants were growing in a soil largely composed of 

 white quartzose gravel. The showy terminal racemes suggest that 

 the plant might be of some value as an ornamental shrub. 



Family AQUIFOLIACE.^. 



{ILICA CE^.) 

 412. Ilex montana Grisebach. 



Ilex montana Grisebach, Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 

 New Series, VIII, 1861, p. 171. 



Northern part of the island, Blain, No. 152 (Millspaugh). General 

 Distribution: Cuba, the Isle of Pines, and perhaps other West 

 Indian Islands. See recently described species and varieties in Urban's 

 Symbolce Antillance. 



Family CELASTRACEiE. 

 413. Maytenus buxifolia Grisebach. 



Monteverdia buxifolia A. Richard, in Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural 



de la Isla de Cuba, X, 1845, p. 142, PI. 36. 

 Celastrus parvifolius A. Richard, op. cit., p. 143. 



Maytenus buxifolia Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, p. 53. 

 Maytenus cochlearifolius Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, p. 53. 

 Celastrus Richardi G. Maza, Diccionario Botanico, 1889, p. 25. 



Along Casas River, about three miles south of Nueva Gerona, 

 May 12, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 211. General Distribution: 

 Bahamas, Cuba, the Isle of Pines, Haiti, and Santo Domingo. 



Family HIPPOCRATEACEyE. 

 414. Salacia Blainii Millspaugh. 

 Salacia Blainii Millspaugh, Field Columbian Museum, Botanical Series, I, 1900, 

 p. 430. 



Northern part of the island, Blain, No. 176. Type (Millspaugh, 

 /. c). Known only from the type-locality. 



Family STAPHYLEACE^. 

 415. Huertea cubensis Grisebach. 

 Huertea cubensis Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, pp. 66, 67. 

 Northern part of the island, Blain, Nos. 115, 169 (Millspaugh). 

 General Distribution: Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



