Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 181 



Near Nueva Gerona, December 24, 1903, A. H. Curtiss, No. 232; 

 in open place in river-bank forest at Los Indios, May 21, 1910, 0. E. 

 Jennings, No. 4^2. General Distribution: Widely distributed in 

 the West Indies; Panama, Colombia, Venezuela; and the tropics of 

 the Old World. As noted in the field, the flowers are pink with a 

 purplish center. 



445. Pavonia spicata Cavanilles. 



Malache scabra Vogel, in Trew, Plantae Selectae ab Ehret Pictae. 1772, p. 50. PI. 90. 

 Pavonia spicata Cavanilles, Monodelphiae Classis Dissertationes Decern, III, 1787, 



p. 136, PI. 46, fig. I. 

 Althcea racemosa Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum Vegetabilium Indiae Occi- 



dentalis, 1788, p. 102. 

 Pavonia racemosa Swartz, Flora Indiae Occidentalis, II, 1800, p. 1215. 

 Malache spicata O. Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum, I, 1891, p. 70. 



In swamp one mile north of Nueva Gerona, May 8, 1910, 0. E. 



Jennings, No. 135; northern part of the island, Blain, No. 87 



(Millspaugh). General Distribution: Occurring widely in the West 



Indies; Panama, Colombia, Venezuela; and the tropics around the 



Indian Ocean. 



446. Pavonia intermixta A. Richard. 



Pavonia intermixta A. Richard, in Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la 

 Isia de Cuba, X, 1845, pp. 45-46. 



Near Nueva Gerona, January 14, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 290. 

 General Distribution: Western Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



447. Hibiscus tiliaceus Linnaeus. La Majagua. 



Hibiscus tiliaceus Linn^us, Species Plantarum, 1753. p. 694. 



Parilium tiliaceum Jussieu, in St. Hilaire, Flora Brasiliae Meridionalis, I, 1825, 



p. 256. 



In abandoned field at Bibijagua, May 7, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 103; "Pedernales Point, Isle of Pines." (Millspaugh); fair-sized 

 tree on river bank in forest at Los Indios, May 20, 1910, 0. E. Jen- 

 nings, No. 43S; Los Indios, G. A^. Link, November 4, 191 2. General 

 Distribution: In sandy soil, southern Florida, Bermuda, the Bahamas, 

 the West Indies, and in tropical regions generally. 



The bast of this plant furnishes a valuable fiber, used in many 

 places in the tropics for making ropes, and haying also other uses, 

 mainly domestic. The fiber becomes stronger after long maceration 

 in water, and, as the plant grows very readily from cuttings or from 



