274 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



G. A. Link. General Distribution: The Bahamas and the West 

 Indies, generally; Mexico, Venezuela, and Guiana. 



708. Momordica Charantia Linnaeus. Balsam Apple. 



Momordia Charantia Linn^us, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 1009. 



Near magnesia springs, Sante Fe, May 26, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 577; near Nueva Gerona, June 3, 1912, G. A. Link. General 

 Distribution: Tropics and subtropics of both hemispheres; in America 

 extending north to Florida and the Bahamas. Probably introduced 

 into America from the Old World. 



Family CAMPANULACE^. 



709. Isotoma longiflora (Linnaeus) Presl. 



Lobelia longiflora Linn.^us, Species Plantarum, 1753. P- 930- 



Isotoina longiflora Presl, Prodromus Monographiae Lobeliacearum, Abhandlungen 

 der Koniglich-Bohmische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, 1836, p. 42. 



Along bank of arroyo between Los Indios and the Cafiada Mts., 

 May 18, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 34g. General Distribution: 

 Rather general in the West Indies. 



A rather striking plant with the general aspect of an Evening Prim- 

 rose {(Enothera) but with white flowers with a slender corolla-tube 

 reaching a length of six inches. The flowers were quite strongly 

 sweet-scented when collected. 



Family GOODENIACE.E. 



710. Scsevola Plumierii (Linnaeus) Vahl. 



Lobelia Plumierii Linn^us, Species Plantarum, 1753. P- 929- 



Scavola Lobelia Murray, Linnsei Systema Vegetabilium, Ed. XIII, 1774, p. 178. 



SccEvola Plumierii Vahl, Symbolae Botanicee, II, 1791, p. 36. 



A low plant on the strand at Bibijagua, May 7, 1910, 0. E. Jen- 

 nings, No. iij. General Distribution: Tropical regions of both 

 hemispheres, extending north in America to Florida, the Bahamas, 

 and the Bermudas. 



Family COMPOSIT.E. 



Key to the Species Enumerated. 



None of the perfect flowers bilabiate. 



Stigmatic lines not extending above the middle of the stigmas. 



Stigmas filiform or subulate, hispidulous (Tribe I. Vernoniem) 



Stigmas more or less club-shaped, papillose-puberulent. 



(Tribe II. Eupatoriece) 



