36 BRITTON: STUDIES OF WEsT INDIAN PLANTS 
broad, the lobes rounded; stamens 5; anthers linear, 2 mm. long; 
ovary 6-celle 
Rocky hill, savanna near Camaguey (Britton & Cowell 13241). 
59. NOTES ON VARIOUS SPECIES 
Evolvulus siliceus Britton & Wilson, nom. nov. 
Evolvulus arenicola Britton & Wilson, Bull. Torrey Club 43: 466. 
1916. Not E. arenicola Johnston, 1905. 
PERSICARIA HIRSUTA (Walt.) Small 
Marsh near Ferry River, Jamaica (Britton 394). Hitherto 
unrecorded from Jamaica. 
PHENAX SONNERATII (Poir.) Wedd. : 
Gravelly soil, Jamaica (Alex. E. Wright 193). Hitherto un- 
recorded from Jamaica. 
PHYLLANTHUS NUMMULARIAEFOLIUS Poir. 
Shady places, Hope Grounds, Jamaica (Harris 12123, 12157, 
12208). Hitherto unrecorded from Jamaica. 
VERONICA ToURNEFORTIE Gmelin 
Waste and shaded grounds, near Mandeville (Crawford 683) 
and near Cinchona, Jamaica (Harris 12417). 
Jacguinta Keyensis Mez. 
- ‘Northern coast of Camaguey and Matanzas provinces, Cuba 
(Shafer 689, 2503, 2712; Britton & Wilson 14043); Little Goat 
Island, Jamaica (Britton 1852); Albion Mountain, Jamaica 
(Harris 11678, 12199). Heretofore recorded from the Bahamas 
and Florida. 
CYRILLA BREVIFOLIA N. E. Brown 
Mountains of northern Oriente, Cuba (Shafer 4060, 4054, 
4109, 4140, 4181, 8032). Apparently identical with the plant 
of Mt. Roraima, British Guiana (Trans. Linn. Soc. LL, Gt 22. 
pl. 1, f. 7-16). 
