614 BRITTON: PISONIA 
6.’ Torrubia longifolia (Heimer). 
Pisonia discolor longifolia Heimerl., Bot. Jahrb. 21:627. 1896. 
Pisonia obtusata Chapm. South. Fl. 374. 1860. Not Jacq. 
Leaves thin, the blades obovate to spatulate, 5 cm. long or 
less, or on young shoots longer, 2 to 4 times as long as wide, 
rounded or often emarginate at the apex, the very slender petioles 
8-13 mm. long; fruiting corymbs dense or loose ; fruit very juicy, 
shining, bright red to magenta red, obovoid-cylindric to globose- 
obovoid, often depressed at the top, the anthocarp 5-6 mm. long. 
Type from the Bahamas, where it is very abundant in coastal 
coppices. 
Bauamas: New Providence, Brace 129 and 387 ; Coker 15 and 
41; Britton & Brace 164, 166, 178 and 292, Andros, Northrop 
517; St. George’s Cay, Coker 316; Watling Island, Coker 472. 
Froripa: Key West, Blodgett, “large tree flowering in the 
summer ;” same island, Blodgett, ‘shrub 10-15 feet ;” Indian 
River, Curtiss 2338; Palm Beach, Curtiss 5379 ; Miami, Garber, 
Britton gog; Annette Key, Simpson 342, shoots showing the ob- 
ovate nearly veinless leaves; Bull Key, Small & Carter 657 and 
660. 
Cusa: seashore near Matanzas, Ruge/ grz. 
7° Torrubia Bracei Britton, sp. nov. 
A slender tree, 5 m. high or less, the bark gray. Leaves thin, 
green on both sides ; petioles very slender, 6-8 mm. long ; blades 
narrowly obovate, 5 cm. long or less, rounded at the apex, cune- 
ate-narrowed at the base; fruiting pedicels about 0.5 mm. long; 
fruit very juicy, oblong-obovoid, twice as long as thick, claret-red, 
truncate at the top; anthocarp 7-8 mm. long, 2 mm. thick. 
Coastal coppice, Ft. Montague, New Providence, Bahamas, 
Britton & Brace 168, August 23, 1904. 
This grows in company with the next preceding species and 
with P. odtusata, and is certainly different from either of them. 
8. Torrubia inermis (Jacq.). 
Pisonia inermis Jacq. Select. Am. 275. 1763. 
Pisonia obtusata Sw. F1. Ind. Occ. 3: 1960. 1806. Not Jacd- 
This type is from Cartagena, South America. The species, 48 
I understand it, is widely distributed in northern South America 
and in the West Indies south of the Bahamas. It is said by Hei- 
merl to grow in Florida, but our collections from that State do 
not contain it. 
