Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 187 



461. Ouratea elliptica (A. Richard) G. Maza. 



Gomphia elliptica A. Richard, in Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natuial de la 



Isla de Cuba, X, 1845, p. 140. 

 Ouratea elliptica G. Maza, Contribuciones al Catalago de las Periantiadas Cubanas, 



Anales de la Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural XXIII, 1894. p. 45. 

 Camptouratea elliptica Van Tieghem, Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Series VIII, 



Vol. XVI, 1902, pp. 214 and 215. 



Growing on the white sands of the pine-barrens near Los Indios, 

 May 17, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 325. General Distribution: Cuba 

 and the Isle of Pines {see Plate XIV). 



The Los Indios specimen has leaves much shorter than that from 

 Sante Fe, the leaves of the former being not more than twice as long 

 as wide. On neither of the numbers can there be detected, along the 

 revolute edge of the leaves, any sign of the obsolete crenulation 

 mentioned by Sagra ("foliis . . . margine obsolete crenulatis," /. c). 



462. Ouratea sp. 



The specimen? under this number have been labelled Ouratea Curtissii 

 Britton, but Dr. Britton has since referred them to Ouratea elliptica. 

 Near Nueva Gerona, February 28 and April 26, 1904, A. H. Ciirtiss, 

 No. J77; shrub about two feet in height, along bank of an arroyo near 

 Sante Fe, May 25, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 532. General Distri- 

 bution; Known only from the Isle of Pines. 



463. Ouratea agrophylla (Van Tieghem) Urban. 



Gomphia ilicifoUa A. Richard in Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la 



Isla de Cuba, X, 1845, p. 138. Not A. DeCandolle; Grisebach, Catalogus 



Plantaruro Cubensium, 1866, p. 36. 

 Ouratea ilicifoUa G. Maza, Contribuciones al Catalago dc las Periantiadas Cubanas, 



1894, p. 46. Not Baillon. 

 Camptouratea agrophylla Van Tieghem, Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Series 



VIII, Vol. XVI, 1902, p. 214. 

 Ouratea agrophylla Urban, Symbolae Antillanae, V, 1908, p. 426. 



Between Bogarona and Caleta Grande, on the coralline limestone 

 soil. May 22, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, Nos. 4/0 and 5/7. General 

 Distribution: Western Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



To the excellent recent description of this peculiar plant, as given 

 by Urban in the Symbolae Antillanae, V, 1908, p. 426, it should be 

 added that the leaves on vigorous non-fruiting branches tend to 

 have a decidedly obtuse or rounded outline at the apex and that the 



