(314) 
loc. cét., described from foliage collected by Dr. Distan in Jamaica, 
grows in the Cockpit country of that island, as seen by Mr. Harris 
and by me in September, 1906 (#rzttox 608), at which time leaves 
were obtained froma tree about 20 m. high; and also on the Santa 
Cruz mountains, where we observed it in September, 1907, and 
obtained the fruit (@r¢tton rrizr). 
Badiera oblongata sp. no 
A shrub, 1.5 m. high, 0 or r less, with long slender ca dasa 
puberulent branches. Leaves coriaceous, dull, 1.7-3 ¢ 
.8-1.8 cm. wide, oblong or obovate-oblong, somewhat Geechee. 
margined in drying, the midvein rather prominent, the lateral veins 
few and inconspicuous, sparingly pubescent with short appressed 
hairs on both sides when young, becoming glabrous or nearly so 
when old, rather aa above, pale-green beneath, acute at 
the base, obtuse or emarginate at the apex, the pubescent petioles 
suborbicular, green; corolla white, about 2.5 mm. long; c 
unguiculate, any capsule nearly triangular, shallowly ae 
nate, about § mm. long and wide, subacute at the base 
New ProvipENcE: Coppice, north slope of Blue Hills (Septem- 
ber 6, 1904, Brztion & Brace 578, type); Anpros: Border of 
mangrove swamp, Deep Creek (Brace 5178); coppice near Nich- 
oll’s Town (Brace 6876); Cat Istanp: Coppice, Orange Creek 
(Britton & Milispaugh 5753); stony scrubland, The Bight 
(Britton & Millspaugh 5894); Ackutn’s IsLanp: Spring Point 
(Brace 4359) ; Crooxep IsLanp: Near Marine View Hill (Brace 
4696); slopes of Jingo Hill (Brace 4764). 
The species is nearest related to the Cuban plant represented by 
C. Wright rzrs, cited by Professor Chodat in his monograph of 
Polygalaceae under Polygala diversifolia L. (Badiera diverst- 
folia DC.), the Jamaica species. 
In his Monographia Polygalacearum, published in Mém. Soc. 
Phys. Hist. Nat. Genéve 317: 11, Professor Chodat describes the 
Jamaica species as new (Polygala jamaicensis), basing it on a 
specimen collected by Mr. J. H. Hart in the island of Jamaica 
(Bot. Dept. Jam. zo. 6gr). An examination of the cotype con- 
tained in the herbarium of the Department of Public Gardens and 
Plantations of Jamaica shows that this is a widely distributed plant of 
that island, and also shows that it is identical with the plant figured 
by P. Browne, Hist. Jam., Al. 5, f. 3. Professor Chodat, however, 
