188 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



base is then often quite strongly cordate, thus presenting quite a 

 contrast to the leaves of the fruiting branches on the same plant. 

 The shrubs, as the writer found them on the Isle of Pines, have a 

 maximum of about seven feet in height. They are rather straggling 

 in habit, and the flowers are a bright yellow or golden-yellow. The 

 leaves are lustrous on the upper surface but dull below. 



464. Ouratea cubensis Urban. 



Gomphia acuminata A. Richard in Sagra, Histoiia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la 



Isla de Cuba, X, i84.'5, p. 139. Not P. DeCandolIe. 

 Gomphia nilida Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, p. 36. Not 



Vahl. 

 Ouratea nitida Maza, Contribuciones al Catalago de las Periantiadas Cubanas, 



1894, p. 46. Not Engler. 

 Ouratea cubensis Urban, Symbolae Antillanse, I, 1899, p. 362. 



In thicket on swampy ground along the river south of Nueva Gerona, 

 May 12, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 214; near base of Mt. Colombo, 

 in wet jungle. May 12, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 2yo. General 

 Distribution: Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



Family THEACE^. 



{TERNSTRCEMIA CEM.) 



Key to the Species Enumerated. 



Anthers roundish, not grown fast to the filament; fruit a capsule. 



465. Hamocharis Curtyana. 

 Anthers linear, grown fast to the filament; fruit not capsule-like. 



466. Ternstrcemia obovalis. 



465. Haemocharis Curtyana (A. Richard) Millspaugh. 



Laplacea Curtyana A. Richard, Essai d'une Flore de I'lle de Cuba, in Sagra, 

 Histoire Physique, Politique et Naturelle de I'lsle de Cuba, I, 1845, p. 225. 



Hamocharis Curtyana Millspaugh, Field Columbian Museum, Botanical Series, 

 I, 1900, p. 430. 



Northern part of the island, Blain, No. 22 (Millspaugh). General 

 Distribution: Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



466. Ternstroemia obovalis A. Richard. 



Ternstroemia obovalis A. Richard, in Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natuial de 

 la Isla de la Cuba, X, 1845, p. 89-90, also XII, PI. 25. 



Near Nueva Gerona, March 22 and May 29, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, 

 No. 42g; bank of dry arroyo in savanna east of Nueva Gerona, May 



