Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 217 



539. Xolisma vaccinioides Small. 



Xolisma vaccinioides Small, North American Flora, XXIX, Part I, 1914, p. 68. 



Nueva Gerona, March, 1904, A. 11. Curtiss. (Type in Herbarium 

 N. Y. Botanical Garden, Small, /. c). General Distribution: Known 

 only from the type locality. 



Family THEOPHRASTACE^. 



Leaves about 2.5-5 cm. long by 5-10 mm. wide; twigs scurfy scaly. 



540. Jacquinia aculeala. 

 Leaves about 2-3 cm. long by 3-4 mm. wide; twigs puberulent. 



541. Jacquinia Curlissii. 



540. Jacquinia aculeata (Linnaeus) Mez. Espuella de Caballero 



(Cuba). 



Medeola aculeala Linn^us, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 339. 



Jacquinia ruscifolia Jacquin, Enumeratio Plantarum Quas in Insulis Caribaeis 



Detexit, 1760, p. 15. 

 Jacquinia aculeata Mez, Urban, Symbolae Antillanae, II, 1901, pp. 445-446. 



On lower slope of Casas Mt., May 12, 1910, 0. E. Jennmgs, No. 221. 

 General Distribution: Western Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



541. Jacquinia Curtissii Britton. 



Jacquinia Curtissii Britton, Torreya, V, 1905, p. 44. 



Near Nueva Gerona, April 24, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 46 j. Gen- 

 eral Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Family PRIMULACE/E. 

 542. Centunculus pentandrus Robert Brown. 



Anagallis piimila Swartz, Flora Indiae Occidentalis, I, I797. P- 345- 



Centunculus pentandrus Robert Brown, Prodromus Florae Novae-Hollandiae et 



Insulae Van Diemen, 1810, p. 427. 

 Micropyxis pumila Duby, in DeCandoUe, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni 



Vegetabilis, VIII,' 1844, p. 72. 



Near Nueva Gerona, December 15, 1903, A. H. Curtiss, No. 230. 

 General Distribution: Cuba, the Isle of Pines, Jamaica; and, on the 

 mainland, in Florida and from Mexico to South America; also in the 

 tropics of the Old World. 



