210 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



In patches of dazzling white quartzose sand and gravel in the 

 pine-barrens near Los Indios, May 17, 1910, Nos. 321 and J23, 0. E. 

 Jennings; northern part of the island, Blain, No. lyi (Millspaugh). 



520. Tamonea prasina (Swartz) Krasser. 



Melaslonta prasina Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum \^egetabilium Indiae Occi- 



dentalis, 1788, p. 69. 

 Miconia collina DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, 



III, 1828, p. 185. 

 Miconia prasina DeCandolle, op. cit., p. 188. 



Acinodendron prasinum O. Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum, I, 1891, p. 245, 

 Tamonea prasina Krasser, in Engler & Prantl, Natiirliche Pflanzenfamilien, III, 



(7). 1893. P- 142. 



Northern part of the island, Blain, Nos. i, 2, 4, 5, 6, 127 (Mills- 

 paugh) ; a tree about twenty feet in height in forest on river at Los 

 Indios, May 20, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 447; near Nueva Gerona, 

 February and April, 1914, A. H. Curtiss, No. j/j. General Distri- 

 bution: Cuba, the Isle of Pines, Jamaica, Porto Rico, Hispaniola, 

 Tortola, Grenada, Trinidad, Margarita, and the continental American 

 tropics. 



521. Tamonea impetiolaris (Swartz) Cook & Collins. 



Melastoma impetiolaris Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum Vegetabilium Indiae 



Occidentalis, 1788, p. 70. 

 Miconia impetiolaris D. Don, Memoirs of the Wernerian Society of Natural 



History, IV, 1823, p. 316. 

 Miconia Wydleriana DeCandolle, Memoire sur la Famille des Melastomacees, 



1828, p. 77- 

 Tamonea impetiolaris Cook & Collins, Contributions from the United States 



National Herbarium, VIII, 1903, p. 249. 



Near Nueva Gerona, February 17, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. Jj2. 

 General Distribution: Through the West Indies rather generally and 

 in the continental American tropics. 



522. Tamonsa delicatula (A. Richard) Jennings, comb. nov. 



Miconia delicatula A. Richard, in Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la 

 Isla de Cuba, X, 1845, p. 268. 



"Crescit in insula Pinorum" 1831. A. II. Lanier. Type (A. 

 Richard, /. c); a shrub about eight feet in height, on savanna ("Mai 

 Pais" gravel), near Nueva Gerona, May 5, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 5; on savanna near Sante Fe, May 25, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 

 £4S; in pine-barrens at Los Indios, May 18, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 607. General Distribution: The Isle of Pines. 



