176 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



429. Triumfetta althaeoides Lamarck. 



Triumfella althaoides Lamarck, Encyclopedie Methodique, Botanique, III, 1789, 

 p. 420. 



Near Nueva Gerona, December 16, 1903, A. H. Curtiss, No. 234. 

 General Distribution: Bahamas, West Indies, and continental tropical 

 America. 



In the present unsatisfactory condition of the genus Triumfetta, 

 the determination of species is not easy. The specimen from the Isle 

 of Pines is probably correctly placed under Lamarck's species althceoides, 

 but the writer is not entirely satisfied with this disposition. The 

 leaves are distinctly and acuminately three-lobed, in general outline 

 very similar to those of Acer spicatum. The basal teeth are not 

 conspicuously transformed into glands, the calyx is densely tomentose, 

 the sepals and petals are narrow and about 7-8 mm. long, the stamens 

 are about twenty-five in number, and the body of the fruit, as well as 

 the spines, is pubescent. Although Triumfetta althceoides is regarded as 

 quite variable, the writer is of the opinion that the plant from the 

 Isle of Pines will be found eventually to be distinct from that species, 

 and, possibly, more nearly related to some of the numerous South 

 American species. 



430. Corchorus siliquosus Linnaeus. 

 Corchorus siliquosus Linn^us, Species Plantarum, I, Ed. I, 1753, p. 529. 



On low, recently cleared ground, north of Nueva Gerona, May 7, 

 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 143: Pedernales Point, February 16, 1899, 

 C. F. Millspaugh, No. 1433 {Plantce Utowance. Field Columbian 

 Museum, Botanical Series, II, No. i, 1900, p. 70). General Distri- 

 bution: From Florida and Texas southwards through the West 

 Indies and tropical America to Guiana. 



431. Belotia mexicana (DeCandolle) K. Schumann. 



Crewia mexicana DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, 



I, 1824, p. 510. 

 Belotia grevieefolia A. Richard in Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la 



Isla de Cuba. X, 1845, p. 83-84, and XII, Plate 21. 

 Belotia mexicana K. Schumann, Engler & Prantl, Natiirliche Pflanzenfamilien, 



III, (6), 1890, p. 28. 



Northern part of the island, Blain, No. lys (Millspaugh, Field 

 Columbian Museum, Botanical Series, I, No. 6, 1900, p. 430). General 

 Distribution: Cuba, the Isle of Pines, and Mexico. 



