Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 267 



Genera! Distribution: Southern Mexico to Guiana, and Brazil; the 

 Isle of Pines and Cuba. 



680. Hamelia patens Jacquin. 



Hamelia palens Jacquin, Enumeratio Plantarum Quas in Insulis Caribaeis Detexit, 

 1760, p. 16. 



Pedernales Point, February 16, 1899, C. F. Millspaugh, No., 141 2 

 (Millspaugh). General Distribution: Florida, Bahamas, the West 

 Indies, southward to Peru and Brazil. 



681. Hamelia erecta Jacquin. 

 Hamelia erecta Jacquin, Stirpium Americanarum Historia, 1763, p. 71. 



Along the bank of the upper part of the Los Indios River, May 18, 

 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 673. General Distribution: Northern 

 South America and the West Indies. 



This species is by some botanists regarded as a variety of the 

 more widely distributed Hamelia patens Jacquin, the main differential 

 characters between the two species being the more spreading cymes 

 of patens and the erect cymes of erecta. 



682. Guettarda calyptrata A. Richard. 



Guettarda calyptrata A. Richard, in Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de 

 la Isla de Cuba, XI, 1850, p. 21, PI. 46. 



Near Nueva Gerona, May 20, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. §04; north- 

 ern part of the island, Blain, No. 147 (Millspaugh). General Distri- 

 bution: Western Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



683. Antirrhoea tenuiflora Urban. 



Anlirrhoea tenuiflora Urban, Symbolae Antillanae, I, 1900, p. 438. 



Along bank of river at Sante Fe, May 24, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 564. General Distribution: Western Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



The specimens were taken from a shrub about seven feet high, 

 with 4-merous, salver-form, lemon-yellow flowers. 



684. Machaonia trifurcata Urban. 



Machaonia cymosa Grisebach, Flora of the British West Indian Islands, 1861, 

 p. 348, as to Cuban specimens. See Britton, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical 

 Club, XLIII, 1916, p. 453. 



Machaonia trifurcata Urban, Symbolae Antillanae, V, 1908, p. 512. 



Northern part of the island, Blain, No. 44 (Millspaugh). General 

 Distribution: Cuba, the Isle of Pines, and Jamaica. 



