Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines, 173 



418. Melicocca bijuga Linnaeus. Genip Tree. 

 Melicocca bijuga Linn^us, Species Plantarum, I, Ed. II, 1762, p. 495. 



Near Nueva Gerona, April 15 and June i, 1904, .4. H. Curtiss, 

 No. 444. General Distribution: Widely distributed in the West 

 Indies and in the American tropics from Nicaragua southwards. 

 Sometimes used as a shade tree. 



419. Cupania americana Linnaeus. 



Ciipania americana Linn^us, Species Plantarum, I, Ed. I, 1753, p. 200. 

 Cupania tomentosa Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum Vegetabilium Indiae Occi- 

 dentalis, 1788, p. 61. 



Near Nueva Genona, February 14, 1904, A. II. Curtiss, No. jji. 

 General Distribution: Cuba, the Isle of Pines, Haiti, Porto Rico, 

 Martinique, Trinidad, and Venezuela. 



420. Cupania macrophylla A. Richard. Guara Colorado. 



Cupania macrophylla A. Richard, in Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural 

 de la Isla de Cuba, X, 1845, p. 120. 



Reported from Cuba and from the Isle of Pines by Achille Richard, 

 /. c. General Distribution: Mexico, Cuba, and the Isle of Pines. 



421. Matayba apetala forma oppositifolia (A. Richard) Radlkofer. 



Cupania oppositifolia A. Richard, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la Isla 



de Cuba, X, 1845, P- 121, PI. 32. 

 Matayba apetala forma oppositifolia Radlkofer, in Urban, Symbolae Antillanae, I, 



1899. P- 354. 



River-bank at Los Indios, May 19, 1910, 0. E. Jemiings, No. 406; 

 near Nueva Gerona, February 7 and April 5, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, 

 No. j2g. General Distribution: Cuba, the Isle of Pines, Porto Rico, 

 and Honduras. 



A characteristic tree of the river-banks near Los Indios, growing 

 to a height of about forty feet, and the trunk reaching a diameter 

 of six inches or more. 



Family D0D0N.F:ACE^. 



Key to the Species Enumerated. 



Leaves mostly obovate-lanceolate ; wings of fruit ot nearly uniform width. 



422. Dodoncea viscosa. 

 Leaves mostly spatulate-lanceolate; wings of fruit broader at apex. 



423. Dodoncea jamaicensis. 



