254 VEGETATION 



*Castalia ampla (DC.) Green. In a fresh pond, Arthurs Town, Cat Island (434). 



LAURACE^. 



Ocotea catesbyana (Mich.) Sarg. Low coppice, Mt. Vernon, Nassau (30). 

 Cassytha filiformis L. Parasitic on trees and scrubs, Nassau (112). Also on Man- 

 grove Cay, Andros; Green Cay; Watlings Island; Long Island; Abaco. 



LYTHRACE^E. 

 Ammania latifolia L. On margin of a brackish marsh, Watlings Island (460). 



CaJcile wqualis L'Her. Governors Harbor, Eleuthera (385). 

 Lepidium virginicum L. A weed introduced about Nassau. 



CAPPARIDACE.E. 



*Capparis jamaicensis Jacq. (Wild Orange). Clarence Harbor, Long Island (497, 

 506). On vigorous young shoots the leaves are long and narrow. 



CRASSULACE^E. 



Bryophyllum pinnatum (Lam.) Krug. (Live-forever). New Providence; Tarpum 

 Bay, Eleuthera; Cat Island. 



Chrysobalanus icaco L. (Cocoa plum, Pigeon plum). West road, Nassau (88). 



On the shores of all the islands visited. Fruit pink. 

 Chrysobalanus fellocarpus Meyer (Cocoa plum, Pigeon plum). Common, with the 



above, on all the islands visited. Fruit black. 



MIMOSAOE^:. 



Acacia choriophylla Benth. (Cinnecord). Mangrove Cay, Andros (207). Common 

 on all the islands visited. 



Leuccena glauca (L.) Benth. (Jumby-bean). Nassau (38). Gregory Town, Eleu- 

 thera. A common weed in old fields. 



Lysiloma latisiliqua (L.) Benth. (L. lahamensis Benth.) (Wild Tamarind). Sol- 

 diers road, Nassau (47). Mangrove Cay, Andros; Cat Island; Long Island. 



Lysiloma paucifolia (DC.) A. S. Hitch. (Horseflesh, Sabicu). Not uncommon on 

 New Providence, Andros and Eleuthera. 



Calliandra formosa Benth. Eleuthera, opposite Spanish Wells (321); Gregory 

 Town, Eleuthera. Leaves sensitive. Only a few specimens found. 



Calliandra hcematomma (DC.) Benth. (Brier-tree). Watlings Island (484). Also 

 on Abaco. Abundant in low coppice. 



PithecoloUum hystrix Benth. Killarney pine-barrens, New Providence (182). 



*PithecoloUum mucronatum Britton (sp. nov.f). A scrub about 2 m. high, the 

 young shoots and peduncles sparingly pubescent. Leaves with two pairs of 

 leaflets, the petiole 1 cm. long or less, longer than or equalling the stiff, sharp, 

 puberulent, stipular spines, and mostly longer than the petiolules; leaflets coria- 

 ceous, rather narrowly obovate, 2 cm. long or less, glabrous, bright green and 

 shining above, pale green and dull beneath, the midvein excurrent as a mucro 

 0.5-1 mm. long; peduncles axillary to the upper leaves and much exceeding 

 them, slender, 5 cm. long or less, erect-ascending; inflorescence puberulent; 



f Species thus designated have been described by Dr. M. L. Britton, and are 

 here published for the first time. 



