268 PITTONIA. 
86. MawiLLaARIA Ponpil. From a few inches to a foot 
high, simple or with a few oval or cylindrically elongated 
branches; growing parts tomentose: radial spines 20—30, 
white, slender ; central 4 or 5, the longest more than an inch 
in length, rigid and strongly hooked, dark brown above the 
middle: flowers nearly two inches long, bright scarlet. 
Near M. Goodridgii, and differing from it in its large size 
and brilliantly colored large flowers. The fruit is unknown. - 
The plants were in flower in February. The species comes 
from the southwestern part of the island. 
87. ENcELIA CONSPERSA, Benth., Bot. Sulph: 26. At the 
southwest end. . 
88. NEMOPHILA AURITA, Lindl., Bot. Reg. t. 1601. 
89. HELIOTROPIUM Curassayicum, Linn., Sp. Pl. 130. 
90. Lycrum CEDROSENSE. Low, stoutish, very much 
branched, rigidly spinescent, the young branchlets and the 
foliage minutely glandular-pubescent: leaves fleshy, cuneate- 
oblong to round-obovate, 3—8 lines long, short-petioled : 
flowers solitary, on slender pedicels two lines long or more : 
fruiting calyx obpyramidal, a sharp angle running from base 
of tube to the apex of each of the 5 broad-triangular teeth : 
corolla 4 or 5 lines long, narrowly funnelform, with 5 rounded 
and spreading lobes: stamens little exserted: berry small, 
. bright red. 
Southwest side of the island ; with both flowers and ripe 
fruit in February. 
91. PHYSALIS PEDUNCULATA. Annual, erect-spreading, the 
flexuous and angular branches a footlong: herbage viscid- 
glaudular-pubescent: leaves ovate or rhombic, acute, entire 
or with few teeth, an inch long, on slender petioles of equal 
length : corolla greenish yellow, 4 inch broad: anthers linear- 
oblong, yellow: fruiting calyx 3 inch long, with sharp angles 
