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Cissus microcarpa Vahl. (Bull-vine). Nassau. 



Vitis rotundifolia. Mich. Pine-barrens, Blue Hills road, New Providence. 



Parthenocissus guinguefolia (L.) Planch. Seen in a rocky clearing on Mangrove 

 Cay, Andros; and among almost bare rocks on top of a hill at Gregory Town, 

 Eleuthera; also at Current Settlement and Tarpum Bay, Eleuthera. 



TlLIACE^S. 



Corchorus hirsutus L. Near shore, New Providence; in a potato field, Elbow Cay, 

 Abaco (39, 573). 



MALVACEJ3. 



Sida carpinifolia L. Mt. Vernon, and Rock Quarry, Nassau; Current Settlement, 

 Eleuthera (133, 270, 343). 



Sida ciliaris L. Current Settlement, Eleuthera (340). Prostrate on exposed rocks. 



Abutilon crispum (L.) Medic. Clearing in coppice, Current Settlement, Eleuthera 

 (345). 



Gossypium barbadense L. (Cotton). Top of a barren, rocky hill, Rum Cay (456). 



Pavonia spinifex (L.) Cav. Clarence Harbor, Long Island (495). Also seen at 

 Lake Killarney, New Providence. 



Malvaviscus cokeri Britton (sp. nov.f). A scrub, 2 m. high or less, with round 

 glabrous branchlets. Leaves ovate, acuminate, cordate, thin, 7-nerved, entire 

 or slightly repand, the upper surface glabrous but papillose, the under side 

 glabrous except for tufts of hairs in the axils of the principal veins, and a 

 few scattered ones on the veins, the blades 5 or 6 cm. long, 3 or 4 cm. wide, 

 the petioles slender, 1.5-2.5 cm. long; peduncles slender, puberulent, 2 or 3 

 times as long as the petioles; involucrebracts narrowly linear, acuminate, 

 glabrous, 1 cm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, about as long as the calyx; calyx-lobes 

 triangular-ovate, acuminate, about one-half as long as the tube, woolly within; 

 petals about 2 cm. long; stamen-column 3 cm. long or more. Foot of a dry, 

 rocky hill, interior of Watlings Island (483). Bahamas, W. C. Coker, July 12, 

 1903. 



STERCULIACE^;. 

 Helicteres spiralis Northrop. Mt. Vernon, Nassau; Governors Harbor, Eleuthera 



(44, 391). 



Melochia tomentosa L. (Stain-bark). Mt. Vernon, Nassau (121). 

 Melochia pyramidata L. Grants Town, Nassau (289). 

 Waltheria americana L. Current Settlement, Eleuthera (337). 



HYPERICACE^E. 

 Ascyrum hypericoides L. Pine-barrens, New Providence. 



BlXACE^E. 

 Xylosma ilicifolia Northrop. Low coppice, opposite Spanish Wells, George Island 



(324). 

 Xylosma sp. Pine-barrens, Which Point, Abaco (562). 



CANELLACE.E. 



Canella winteriana (L.) Gaertn. (Wild Cinnamon, Bahama Whitewood bark). East 

 road, Nassau; Port Nelson, Rum Cay (124, 447). 



TURNERACEJE. 



Turnera ulmifolia L. Blue Hills road, and East road, New Providence (11, 132, 

 269). A weed near settlements on all of the islands visited. 



