220 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Sideroxylon mastichodendron Jacquin, Collectanea, II, 1788, p. 253, PI. 17, fig. 5. 

 Sideroxylon pallidum Sprengel, Systema Vegetabilium, I, 1825, p. 666. 



"Crescit ... in insula Pinorum." 1831, A. H. Lanier (A. 

 Richard, in Sagra, " Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la Isla de 

 Cuba," XI, 1850, p. 84). General Distribution: Florida, the Bahamas, 

 and many of the West Indian Islands. 



Family EBENACE^. 

 Key to the Species Enumerated. 



Fruit 6-seeded; ovary hairy 549. Maha caribaa. 



Fruit with more than 6 seeds; ovary not hairy 550. Diospyros laurifolia. 



549. Maba caribaea (DeCandolle) Hiern. 



Macreightia caribcea DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegeta- 



bilis, VIII, 1844, p. 221. 

 Maba caribcea Hiern, Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, XII. 



1873. p. 125. 



Northern part of the island, Blain, Nos. 128, 180 (Millspaugh). 

 General Distribution: Cuba and the Isle of Pines; Hispaniola. 



550. Diospyros laurifolia A. Richard. 



Diospyros laurifolia A. Richard, in Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la 



Isla de Cuba, XI, 1850, p. 86 and XII, PI. 55. 



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

 Distribution: Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



Family SYMPLOCACE^. 



Key to the Species Enumerated. 



Stamens more or less distinctly separate from each other. 



551. Symplocos salicifolia. 

 Stamens connate into a long tube 552. Symplocos marlinicense. 



551. Symplocos salicifolia Grisebach. 



Symplocos salicifolia Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, p. 168. 

 Northern part of the island, Blain, No. ij/ (Millspaugh); near 

 Nueva Gerona, February 23, 1904. A. H. Curtiss, No. jd^. General 

 Distribution: Western Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



552. Symplocos martinicensis Jacquin. 



Symplocos martinicensis Jacquin, Enumeratio Plantarum Quas in Insulis Caribaeis 

 Detexit, 1760, p. 24. 



