(313) 
years ago by Blodgett and referred by Dr. Chapman in his Flora 
of the Southern States to P. herniardoides (Sw.) Lindl., which, 
according to Weddell, is a form of P. microphylla (L.) Liebm. ; 
it has also been collected on Key West by Simpson (no. 480), and 
is the Adicea herniarioides of Dr. Small’s Flora. 
VILLAMILLA OCTANDRA (L.) Hook. f. 
Climbing on trees about a ruined house, near The Bight, Cat 
Island (Britton & Milispaugh 5934). 
SESUVIUM MICROPHYLLUM Willd. 
In a salina, Grand Turk (Nash & Taylor 3878). Apparently 
the same as the Cuban plant as shown by specimens from Havana 
(Curtiss 569); Matanzas (Britton d& Shafer 22); Santiago 
(Hamilton 36). Certainly distinct from S. Portulacastrum. 
Coronorus pipymus (L.) J. E. Smith. 
Waste places along the streets of the settlement at Rock Sound, 
Eleuthera (Britton & Millspaugh 5558). Hitherto known from 
the Bahamas only on New Providence. 
CISSAMPELOS TOMENTOSA DC. 
Road to Louisa Coppice, near Nicholl’s Town, Andros, very 
local (Brace 6897) ; old fields near Nicholl’s Town (Brace 6776). 
DoLicHOLUS RETICULATUS (Sw.) Millsp. 
Scrub lands between Graham’s Harbor and Cockburn Town, 
Watling’s Island (Britton & Millspaugh 6212); not otherwise 
reported from the Bahamas. 
SPATHELIA VERNICOSA Planch. Lond. Jour. Bot. 5: 581. 1846. 
This very interesting small tree was observed at two places on 
Cat Island, viz., on a rocky plain at Orange Creek (Britton & 
Millspaugh 5782), and in rocky soil on Bone Fish Point northwest 
of the Bight settlement. Col. Prain has kindly verified my deter- 
mination of the species, which was described from flowering speci- 
mens collected by Linden in Cuba. Our specimens are fruiting, 
the 3-winged fruit 1 cm. long, much smaller than that of the 
Jamaican S. simplex L., the generic type; the leaflets are more 
distinctly veined than Planchon’s description of Linden’s specimens 
indicates, otherwise his description covers the Cat Island plants 
accurately. As seen by us S. vernicosa is a slender tree about 5 
m. high, the unbranched stems about 2.5 cm. in diameter dying after 
flowering. The third species of the genus, S. glabrescens Planch. 
