Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 185 



nings, No. 444. General Distribution: From the Florida Keys 

 through the Bahamas and the West Indies, and through continental 

 tropical America; also in the tropics of the Old World. 



This occasionally occurs as a weed in the pasture-lands with Melochia 

 hirsuln, which, in a general way, it quite closely resembles. 



457. Guazuma Guazuma Cockerell. 



Guazuma tomentosa Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth, Nova Genera et Species 



Plantarum, V, 1821, p. 320. 

 Guazuma ulmifolia var. tomentosa C. Schumacher in Martius, Flora Brasiliensis, 



XII (3). 1886, p. 81. 

 Guazuma Guazuma Cockerell, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, XIX, 1892, 



p. 95 (in part). 



Near Nueva Gerona, January 4 and March 3, 1904, A. II. Curtiss, 

 No. 270; on lower slope on the inland side of the ridge at Bibijagua, 

 May 7, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. iig; in flower, a tree about 30 feet 

 in height; reported for the Isle of Pines on the basis of specimens 

 collected by Lanier in 1831. (A. Richard, in Sagra, " Historia Fisica, 

 Politica y Natural de la Isla de Cuba," X, 1845, pp. 74, 75). General 

 Distribution: Bahamas and generally throughout the West Indies and 

 tropical continental America. 



Family DILLENIACE^. 



Two inner sepals becoming enlarged, crustaceous, or woody, and shining, enclosing 

 the fruit; clambering shrubs; flowers yellow 458. Davilla rugosa. 



Sepals all about the same size, not enlarging nor hardening nor enclosing fruit; 

 flowers white; tortuous shrub to low tree 459. Curatella americana. 



458. Davilla rugosa Poiret. 



Davilla rugosa Poiret, Encyclopedic Methodique, Supplementa in Dictionnaire 

 de Botanique, II, 1811, p. 457. 



Near Nueva Gerona, February 11, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. jjg; 

 Dr. Jared F. Shafer, February-March, 1910; swampy margin of pond 

 east of Nueva Gerona, May 6, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 45; a clamber- 

 ing shrub along Majaguay River, near Los Indios, May 19, 1910, 

 0. E. Jennings, No. 413; bank of arroyo near Sante Fe, May 25, 1910, 

 0. E. Jennings, No. 5J7. General Distribution: Cuba, the Isle of 

 Pines, Jamaica, St. Thomas, Colombia, Guiana, and Brazil. 



