RUBIACEAE. 411 



1. Catesbaea spinosa L. Sp. PI. 109. 1753. 



A glabrous shrub, 2-3 cm. high, or a small tree up to 5 m. high, with very- 

 spiny slender branches, the opines opposite, axillary, 1.5-3.5 cm. long. Leaves 

 ovate-elliptic, thin, 0.6-3 cm. long, acute or acutish at both ends, mostly 

 shorter than the spines, skort-petioled; peduncles mostly shorter than the 

 leaves, about as long as the calyx; calyx-teeth subulate; corolla 10-15 cm. 

 long, yellow, nodding, the very slender tube tapering into the throat above the 

 middle, the short lobes ovate, acute; berry globose to ovoid, 1.5-5 cm. long. 



Scrub-lands and coppices, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera and Long Island : 

 — Cuba. Catesby, 2 : pi. 100. Large-floavered Catesbya. Prickly -apple. Spanish 

 Gdava. 



2. Catesbaea parviflora Sw. Prodr. 30. 1788. 



Cates'baea campanulata iSagra; DC. Prodr. 4: 401. 1830. 



Catesbaea parviflora septentrionalis Krug & Urban; UrbaUj Symb. Ant, 



1: 429. 1899. 

 Catesbaea fasciculata Northrop, Mem. Torr. Club 12: 66. 1902. 



A much-branched shrub; 2 m. high or less, the branches long and slender, 

 usually copiously armed with slender spines 5-20 mm. longj rather densely 

 leafy. Leaves coriaceous, obovate to suborbicular or oblanceolate, 3-10 mm. 

 long, rounded at the apex, narrowed at the base into short petioles; flowers 

 sessile or nearly so in the axils; calyx-teeth subulate; corolla about 6 mm. 

 long, its 4 lobes obtuse; berry globose, white, about 2 mm. in diameter. 



White-lands, savannas and coppices, Abaco, Berry Islands, Andros, New Provi- 

 dence, Eleuthera. Little San Salvador, Exuma Chain to Great Ragged Island, Green 

 Cay : — Florida ; Cuba ; Porto Rico ; Jamaica. Small-flowered Catesbya. 



3. Catesbaea foliosa Millsp. Field. Mus. Bot. 2: 312. 1909. 



A stout-branched, spreading shrub, 1-2 m. high, with or without spines, 

 the bark loose and grayish-white; branchlets densely and minutely resinous, 

 setose. Leaves thick, 8-13 mm. long, 2-6 mm. wide, linear- spatulate to 

 obovate, dark green, subsessile, the apex obtuse, rarely mucronulate, the 

 margin revolute, the upper surface appearing as if varnished; flowers pedicel- 

 late; calyx-teeth subulate, obtuse, about 1 mm. long, minutely setulose; berry 

 white, globose, 2-3 mm. in diameter; seeds reddish, ovate, umbonate in the 

 center on both sides. 



White-lands and scrub-lands. Conception Island, Watling's Island, Atwood Cay, 

 Crooked Island, Fortune Island, Acklin's Island, Mariguana, Caicos Islands, Grand 

 Turk, Ambergris Cay and Inagua. Referred to in Field Col. Mus. Bot. 2 : 167 as 

 C. campamilata, and possibly a large-leaved race of the preceding species though ap- 

 pearing distinct. Leafy Catesbya. 



7. HAMEIiIA Jacq. Enum. 2, 16. 1760. 



Shrubs, or small trees, with opposite or verticillate, petioled leaves, nar- 

 row deciduous stipules, and red or yellow flowers secund on the branches of 

 terminal compound cymes. Calyx-tube ovoid to turbinate, its 5 short lobes 

 persistent. Corolla tubular, or narrowly campanulate, constricted at the base, 

 the limb 5-lobed, the lobes short, imbricated. Stamens 5, borne near the base 

 of the corolla; filament short; anthers basifixed, linear, scarcely exserted, or 

 included, the connective appendaged. Ovary 5-celled; style filiform; stigma 

 narrowly fusiform; ovules numerous in each cavity. Berry small, ovoid, 5- 

 lobed, 5-celled. Seeds very small, angled. [In honor of H. L. du Hamel de 

 Monceau, 1700-1782, French botanist.] About 25 species of tropical and sub- 

 tropical America. Type species: Hamelia erecta Jacq. 



