Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 175 



In swampy forest at west base of Mt. Colombo, May 14, 1910, 

 0. E. Jennings, No. 261. General Distribution: From Florida south- 

 wards through the West Indies and South America to Ecuador. 



426. Cissus sicyoides Linnaeus. 



Cissus sicyoides 'Ln^iiJEVS, Systema Naturae, II, Ed. X, 1759, p. 897. 



Vitis sicyoides Morales, Monografia de las Ampelideas de Cuba, in Poey, Reper- 



torio Fisico-Natural de la Isla de Cuba, I, 1866, p. 206. 

 Vitis vitiginea var. repens O. Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum, I, 1891, p. 138. 



A low vine with light yellow flowers, in swampy forest at base of 

 Mt. Colombo, May 14, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 26Q; a woody vine 

 climbing to about ten feet over low shrubs at Caleta Grande, May 22, 

 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 463. General Distribution: From Florida 

 and the Bahamas south through tropical America. 



427. Cissus intermedia A. Richard. 



Cissus intermedia A. Richard in Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la 

 Isla de Cuba, X, 1845, p. 128. 



Near Nueva Gerona, April 8, 1904, A. H. Ciirtiss, No. 438. General 

 Distribution: Bahamas, Cuba, the Isle of Pines, Haiti, and Porto 

 Rico. 



Family EL/EOCARPACE^. 



428. Muntingia Calabura Linnsus. 



Muntingia Calabura Linn^us, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 509. 



Near Nueva Gerona, December 8, 1903 (flowers), and January 8, 

 1904 (fruit), A. H. Ciirtiss, No. 21 j; in rather open scrubby forest 

 near Nueva Gerona, May 9, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 182; near 

 Nueva Gerona, June 12, 1912, G. A. Link. General Distribution: 

 Haiti (Grisebach, "Flora of the British West Indian Islands," 1864, 

 p. 98), the Isle of Pines, Mexico to Brazil. 



The globose fruit, red and about i cm. in diameter is palatable 

 and is said to be eaten by the Spanish inhabitants. 



Family TILIACE^. 

 Key to the Species Enumerated. 

 Shrubs, or herbs of shrubby aspect. 



Leaves usually more or less 3-lobed; fruit small, dry, globose, and armed with 



prickles 429. Triumfetta alihceoides. 



Leaves not lobed; fruit an elongated capsule without prickles. 



430. Corchorus siliquosus. 

 Trees; leaves not lobed; fruit an obovoid capsule, somewhat obcordate in outline. 



431. Belotia mexicana. 



