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greater size is a from the record by Professor Urban in his 
‘Flora portoricen 
In Porto Rico, Ps is known as ‘“‘Retama’’ or “‘Retama prieta,”’ 
but the name ‘“‘Hediondilla” is also applied to it there. The 
botanist Bello y Espinosa mistook the plant for Cassia biflora 
Linnaeus, and so recorded it in his ‘‘ Apuntes para la flora de Puerto- 
Rico,” published in 1881. 
While in nature a plant of relatively dry regions, it grows well 
in moist greenhouses, commencing to flower with us in late De- 
cember or early January; it would perhaps live in southern Florida, 
and should be tried there, for, if successfully established, a most 
attractive additional winter feature would be supplied. 
flowering spray was depicted on plate cage of Jacquin’s rare 
and valuable ‘“‘Icones plantarum rariorum,” published in three 
folio volumes toward the end of the eighteenth century, in which 
this and many other rare plants grown in the Schénbrunn garden 
were illustrated. 
N. L. BriTron. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE. Fig. 1—Flowering branch. Fig. 2.—Fruit. 
