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3. Elsota virgata (Sw.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 46. 1891. 



Securidaca virgata Sw. Prodr. 104. 1788. 



Securidaca obcordata Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 27 2 : 358. 1854. 



Securidula virgata Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 769. 1864. 



Securidaca erecta Fawc. & Rendle, Fl. Jam. 4: 246. 1920. Not S. erecta Jacq. 1760. 



Much branched scandent shrub; branches strigillose or ascending-hispidulous, subgla- 

 brate; leaves oval, 7-18 mm. long, 5-13 mm. wide, emarginate at the rounded apex, cuneate 

 to cuneate-rounded at base, chartaceous or pergamentaceous, above rather sparsely strigillose, 

 with 1-3 pairs of obscure lateral veins, beneath pale-green or glaucescent, strigillose and with 

 very obscure veins; petioles strigillose or ascending-hispidulous, 1-1.5 mm. long; peduncles 

 5-10 mm. long; racemes loose, the axis 1.5 dm. long or less; bracts deciduous or subpersistent, 

 1.5-2.5 mm. long; pedicels strigillose, 4-7 mm. long; wings rosy, drying whitish, the corolla 

 yellow; sepals orbicular-ovate, obtuse, ciliate, sparsely strigillose, 2.2-3.8 mm. long; wings 

 orbicular or oblate-orbicular, 8.2-9.2 mm. long, 7.5-9.5 mm. wide, emarginate, ciliate except 

 on the very short claw, about 10-nerved; keel glabrous, 7.5-8 mm. long; samara olivaceous, 

 strigillose, 3-4.2 cm. long; fruiting cell plump, strongly reticulate, narrowly margined above, 

 6.5-8 mm. long; wing obliquely obovate or oblong-obovate, at base as broad as or broader 

 than the fruiting cell, 2.5-3.2 cm. long, 5-6 mm. wide at base, 9-13 mm. wide near middle. 



Type locality: Jamaica. 



Distribution: Cuba, Santo Domingo, Porto Rico, and Vieques Island; reported from Jamaica. 

 Illustrations: Plumier, PI. Am. pi. 248, f. 1; Tussac, Fl. Ant. 4: pi. 20; Fawc. & Rendle, Fl. 

 Jam. 4: /. 84, B-C. 



4. Elsota elliptica (Turcz.) Blake. 



' Securidaca elliptica Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 27 2 : 358. 1854. 



Scandent shrub, 10 m. high or less, the branchlets pendent, sparsely or densely short- 

 pubescent with ascending or somewhat spreading curved hairs, subglabrate; leaves oval, 1-2.1 

 cm. long, 7-17 mm. wide, rounded or obtuse, at base cuneate to rounded, above dark-green, 

 rather densely pilosulous or short-pilose with ascending or somewhat spreading curved hairs, 

 with 3-6 pairs of lateral veins, the basal pair largest, and all with the secondaries prominulous- 

 reticulate, beneath pale-green or glaucescent, similarly pubescent or sometimes appressed- 

 pubescent, reticulate; petioles ascending- or spreading-pubescent, 1-1.5 mm. long; peduncles 

 3-14 mm. long; racemes loose, the axis 17 cm. long or less; bracts 2-5 mm. long, deciduous 

 or subpersistent; pedicels 4-7 mm. long; wings purple, the corolla yellow, the crest purple; 

 sepals orbicular-ovate, obtuse or rounded, ciliate, pubescent along midline, 2.6-3.8 mm. long; 

 wings suborbicular or suborbicular-oval, 8-10.5 mm. long, 7.5-8.2 mm. wide, emarginate, 

 short-ciliate about to middle except on the short claw, not cordate, about 9-nerved; upper 

 petals glabrous, flabellate-obovate ; keel ciliate on saccate portion about to middle, 8.S-9 mm. 

 long; samara olivaceous, 3.6-4.6 cm. long, strigillose or spreading-puberulous ; stipe 2 mm. 

 long or nearly obsolete; fruiting cell plump, reticulate with raised sometimes tuberculate veins, 

 narrowly winged its whole length on upper side, 7-9 mm. long, the wing connate at apex with 

 the proper wing of the samara; proper wing -obovate or oblong-obovate, as broad at base as 

 fruiting cell, 2.8-3.7 cm. long, 4-7 mm. wide at base, 10-13 mm. wide near middle. 



Type locality: Cuba. 

 Distribution: Cuba and Isle of Pines. 



5. Elsota diversifolia (L.) Blake. 



Polygala diversifolia L. Sp. PI. 703. 1753. 



Securidaca erecta Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 27. 1760. 



Securidaca acuminata Schlecht. Linnaea 14: 382. 1840. Not 5. acuminata St.-Hil. 1829. 



Securidaca Schlechtendaliana Walp. Rep. 1: 246. 1842. 



Securidaca macroslachya Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 36 1 : 560. 1863. 



Securidula erecta Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 769. 1864. 



Securidula volubilis Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 770, as synonym. 1864. Not Securidaca volubihs L. 



1753. 

 Elsota Schlechtendaliana Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 46. 1891. 

 ?Securidaca myrtifolia Chod. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 3: 546. 1893. 

 Securidaca diversifolia Blake, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 23: 594. 1923. 



Trailing or high-climbing shrub, the stem 2.5 cm. thick below; branches strigillose or 

 ascending-puberulous, subglabrate; leaves from elliptic-oblong or oblong-ovate to broadly 



