186 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



459. Curatella americana Linnaeus. Sandpaper Tree. 

 Curatella americana Linn^us, Systema Naturae, Ed. X, p. 1079. 



"Crescit in insula de Finos, locis inundatis." (A. Richard, in 

 Sagra, "Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la Isla de Cuba," X, 

 1845, p. 10); near Nueva Gerona, February 11, 1904, A. H. Ctirtiss, 

 No. 3jy; Dr. Jared F. Shafer, February-March, 1910; a bushy tree 

 about 15 feet in height, on " Mai Pais" gravel, on savanna near Nueva 

 Gerona, May 5, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 4. General Distribution: 

 Widely distributed in the interior of tropical America from Colombia 

 and Guiana to Brazil; the Isle of Pines. (See Plate XIII.) 



The leaves of this tree are very rough and are used in some localities 

 for polishing wood, etc. The leaves are also rich in tannic acid and 

 are locally used for tanning purposes. In South America Gilg notes 

 (Engler & Prantl, "Die Natiirliche Pfianzenfamilien," III (Abt. VI), 

 1895, p. 114) that it is especially common in the "catinga" formation. 



Family OCHNACE^. 



Key to the Species Enumerated. 



Low herbs with leaves less than 2 cm. long; stipules conspicuously laciniate-f ringed. 



460. Sanvagesia Brownei. 

 Shrubs with larger coriaceous leaves; stipules soon deciduous. 

 Leaves not senate. 



Leaves oblong-elliptic, obtuse at each end 461. Ouratea elliptica. 



Leaves, at least the upper ones, lance-ovate, subacute at the apex. 



462. Ouratea sp. 

 Leaves more or less serrate. 



Leaves large, up to 12 or 15 cm. long, about half as wide, abruptly acumi- 

 nate, sharply serrate above the middle 464. Ouratea cubensis. 



Leaves smaller, about 2.5-4 cm., wide and 5-8 cm. long, the crinkled margin 

 undulately serrate and with spine-tipped teeth, holly-like. 



463. Ouratea agrophylla. 



460. Sauvagesia Brownei Planchon. 



Sauvagesia Brownei Planchon, MS. in Herb. Hooker: Troisieme Voyage de J. 

 Linden, Botanique par J. Linden et J. E. Planchon, L 1863, p. 64. (Reprinted 

 in Urban: Symbolae Antillanae, V, 1908, p. 430-431.) 



Near Nueva Gerona, April 28, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 46Q; growing 

 in thin sandy soil on pine roots, in barrens east of Los Indios, May 

 18, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. j66; as a weed in field at Nueva Gerona, 

 May 6, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. dj/. General Distribution: Cuba, 

 the Isle of Pines, and Jamaica. 



