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thickish, apex obtuse or retuse, margin entire or slightly undulate, 

 veins prominulous beneath, 4-7 pairs diverging from the midrib at 

 nearly right angles, surface lepidote on both sides, pale green above, 

 white beneath owing to the confluent white scales; inflorescence 

 terminal, sessile, many-flowered cymes; flowers showy, pale pink, 

 pedicels rusty-lepidote, about i cm. in length; calyx rusty, campanu- 

 late, closed in the bud, about 1.5 cm. in length, bilabiate, lower lip 

 subtruncate, upper longer, usually rounded; corolla funnel-shaped, 

 veiny, pink, about four times as long as the calyx, limb spreading, 

 lobes rounded, slightly unequal, margin sometimes undulate, tube 

 pubescent within ; stamens 4, didynamous, less than half the length 

 of the corolla, inserted near the base of the tube, filaments incurved, 

 anther cells linear-oblong, divaricate, straight; pistil about 2.5 cm. 

 in length; ovary lepidote, two-celled; style slender; stigma two- 

 lamellate, lamellae cuneate or obovate; disk pulvinate; capsule 

 elongated, linear, about 8 cm. in length and 7-8 mm. in width, 

 slightly compressed, rusty-lepidote, valves coriaceous, subcarinate, 

 veiny ; seeds oblong, slightly notched below, about as long as the striate 

 hyaline wing (218). 



Collected on New Providence, near Nassau, Jan. 26; in the 

 interior of the island, Feb. 26, and at Nicol's Town, Andros, March 26. 



Note from Kew, 1899: "This matches a plant collected in the 

 Bahamas by Brace no. 643 and Eggers no. 3962 which has been 

 called Tabebuia leucoxyla DC, but according to Bureau T. leucoxyla 

 is identical with T. obtusifolia Bureau, a totally different plant with 

 simple leaves." Also resembles a specimen at Cambridge from the 

 Bahamas 1859 marked T. leucoxyla ? by Gray. 



Plate 15. Tecoma Bahamensis. Portion of plant in flower, X f. 



Tecoma stans (L.) Juss. ''Yellow elder." Common about 

 Nassau, Jan. (8). 



Jacaranda Bahamensis R. Br. "Boxwood," "cancer tree." 

 Deep Creek, June (701). Determined at Kew by Dr. Britton. 



Jacaranda ccerulea Griseb. Nassau, Jan. (213). Same as 

 Eggers 4427. 



ACANTHACEJE 



Thunbergia fragrans Roxb. Probably escaped. Nassau, 

 Jan. (130). 



Blechum Brownei Juss. Nassau, Jan. (49). 



Anth ACANTHUS AcicuLARis (Sw.) Nces. Common in the coppet 



