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13), entire to saliently and sharply dentate, greenish above, gray-scurfy beneath (gray 

 on both sides in minor variation 13) ; staminate spikes either short, as in the type, or up 

 to 2 cm. long; fruiting bracts 3 to 4 or rarely 4.5 mm. long, usually 4 to 5 mm. broad, each 

 of the sides with 2 dentate crests or tubercled or rarely smooth, reticulate-veiny or the 

 veins covered by the tubercles; seed 1.2 to 1.5 mm. long. (A. pentandra Jacquin, Sel. 

 Stirp. Am. 244, 1763.) Coast of the South Atlantic and Gulf States and West Indies; 

 also in northern South America. Type locahty, seashores of Cuba. Collections: 

 Indian River, Florida, Curtiss 2357 (Gr, NY, US); shore of Upper Matecumbe Key, 

 Florida, Curtiss 5506 (NY, UC, US) ; Mon Louis Island, near Mobile, Alabama, August 

 15, 1879, Mohr (US) ; Horn Island, Mississippi, Tracy 

 6S95(NY, US) ; Breton Island, Louisiana, Tracy and 

 Lloyd 42 (Gr, US); near Corpus Christi, Texas, 

 Heller 1819 (Gr, US) ; Atwood Cay, Bahamas, Wilson 

 7422 (NY, form approaching subspecies confinis); 

 Grand Turk Island, Bahamas, Millspaugh 8998 

 (NY, similar form); Mariguana, Bahamas, Wilson 

 7536 (NY); Ambergris Key, Caicos Group, Baha- 

 mas, Millspaugh 9276 (NY) ; west of Playa Mariano, 

 Havana, Cuba, van Hermann 902 (NY) ; Playa del 

 Vedado, Havana, Cuba, Baker 1792 (NY); near 

 mouth of Bueyvaca, Province of Matanzas, Cuba, 

 Britton and Wilson 53 (NY) ; Cuba, Wright 3660 (Gr, 

 US, as A. aldamae Grisebach, minor variation 1); 

 Cayo Paredon Grande, Camaguey, Cuba, Shafer 

 2741 (Gr, US) ; Pedro Bluff, Jamaica, Harris 9932 

 (NY, minor variation 13); Morillos de Cabo Rojo, 

 Porto Rico, Britton, Cowell, and Brown 4714 (NY) ; 

 near Guani Cay, Porto Rico, Sintensis 3955 (Gr, 

 NY) ; Pinetree Bay, St. Croix, Rickesecker 327 (Gr, 

 NY, US, form approaching minor variation 13); 

 near Willemstad, Curagao, Britton and Shafer 2926 

 (NY, US, minor variation 13) ; Swan Islands, off the 

 coast of Honduras, A^e/son 65 (Gr). Additional localities are mentioned under minor 

 variations 16 and 18. 



25c. Atriplex pentandra confinis (Standley). — Stems probably spreading at base 

 from an annual or perennial root, the ends erect or ascending; leaves broadly elliptic or 

 approaching rhombic, rounded to the base, obtuse at summit, 1.5 to 3 cm. long, 0.5 to 

 1.5 cm. wide (much smaller in minor variation 21, Obione crispa Moquin), typically low- 

 dentate to entire but varying to acutely dentate in small-leaved forms, densely and 

 closely white-scurfy on both faces; staminate spikes short (0.5 to 1 cm. long); fruiting 

 bracts 2.5 to 3.5 mm. long, 3 to 4 mm. broad, the sides without appendages but with 

 strong reticulations faintly visible through the dense scurf; seed about 1.5 mm. long. (^4.. 

 confinis Standley, N. Am. Fl. 21 :54, 1916.) The Bahamas to northern Venezuela. Type 

 locality. Sombrero Island. Collections: Type collection, 1864, Julien (NY, US) ; Eastern 

 Cay, Turks Islands, Bahamas, Millspaugh 9369 (NY, minor variation 21, Obione crispa 

 Moquin). 



25d. Atriplex pentandra mtjricata (Humboldt and Bonpland). — Stems procumbent 

 or ascending from an annual or perennial but short-lived root; leaves elUptic to spatulate 

 or narrowly obovate, tapering to a mostly slender petiole-Uke base, obtuse and usually 



Atriplex pentandra typica. Tracing of the 

 entire plate accompanying the original descrip- 

 tion (Jacquin, Sel. Stirp. Am. Pict. pi. 235;. 



