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peduncles slender, thickened a,bove, 8-15 mm. long in fruit; heads about 6 mm. 

 broad, several-flowered; bracts lanceolate, puberulent, obtusish, 2.5-3 mm. 

 long; calyx 2-toothed, pubescent, 1 mm. long, its teeth blunt; corolla purple, 

 its slightly gibbous tube about 3 mm. long, its spreading limb with 5 unequal 

 obtuse lobes; stamens borne near the top of the corolla-tube, the anthers as 

 long as the filaments or longer. 



Scrub-lands, Little Inagua, at Moujean Harbor. Endemic. INAGUA SAGE-BUSH. 



A small-leaved shrub, growing in sand alongside typical L. involucrata on Whale 

 Cay, Berry Islands, appearing very distinct from it, and a similar specimen from 

 Eleuthera, first referred by us to this species, may represent another race or species ; 

 these specimens are barren. 



7. NASHIA Millsp. Field Mus. Hot. 2: 176. 1906. 



Pubescent aromatic shrubs, with rather stout branches, opposite or fascicled 

 leaves and small capitate bracteolate, white or greenish flowers. Calyx short, 

 annular, subtruncate. Corolla tubular-campanulate, its limb nearly equally 

 4-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, nearly equal in length. Ovary 2-celled. 

 Fruit drupaceous, small, the bony nutlets coherent. [Dedicated to George 

 Valentine Nash.] Two or three species of the Bahamas and Cuba, the follow- 

 ing typical. 



1. Nashia inaguensis Millsp. Field Mus. Bot. 2: 177. 1906. 

 Lippia inaguensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 353. 1912. 



A much-branched shrub 2 m. high or less, the bark gray, the branches 

 widely spreading, the young twigs densely short-pubescent, elliptic to obovate 

 or spatulate, 5-10 mm. long, obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base, rugose 

 and sparingly pubescent above, tomentose beneath, the margin entire, revolute, 

 the petioles about 1 mm. long; heads axillary, sessile, few-flowered; bracts 

 ciliate, apiculate, longer than the flowers; corolla white, about 2 mm, long; 

 drupes pyriform, about 4 mm. long; nutlets smooth. 



Scrub-lands, Inagua, near Matthew Town. Endemic. MOUJEAN TEA. 



8. CITHAREXYLUM L. Sp. PI. 625. 1753. 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate leaves and small flowers in terminal or 

 axillary spikes or racemes, the pedicels subtended by minute bracts. Calyx 

 narrowly campanulate, minutely 5-lobed, persistent. Corolla salverform, its 

 limb slightly oblique, 5-lobed. Stamens 4 or 5, adnate to the corolla-tube, the 

 fifth one mostly sterile or rudimentary; filaments filiform. Ovary sessile, 

 incompletely 4-celled; ovules solitary, anatropous; stigma 2-lobed. Drupes 

 berry-like, the fleshy pulp enclosing a bony stone which separates into 2, 2- 

 seeded nutlets. [Greek, fiddle-wood; French, bois fidele.] About 20 species, 

 of tropical America. Type species: Citharexylum spinosum L. 



Flowers subsessile ; nutlets 2-celled. l. C. fruticosum. 



Flowers with pedicels longer than the bracts ; nutlets 1-celled. 2. C. caudatum. 



1. Citharexylum fruticosum L. Syst. ed. 10, 1115. 1759. 



Citharexylum cinereum L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 872. 1763. 

 Citharexylum villosum Jacq. Icon. Ear. 1: 12. 1786. 

 Citharexylum subserratum Sw. Prodr. 91. 1788. 



Citharexylum bahamense Millsp. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 450. 1905. 

 A ^tree, attaining a maximum height of about 10 m., with a trunk up to 

 2 dm. in diameter, the nearly smooth bark light brown, the twigs slender and 



