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PELEXIA SETACEA Lindl. 
Maidenhead Coppice, New Providence (2. G. Britton, 32017) ; 
coppice, Pinder’s Point, Great Bahama (Britton & Milispaugh, 
2520). 
VANILLA PHAEANTHA Reichb. f. 
Coppice, Barnett’s Point, Great Bahama (Britton & Mills- 
paugh, 2631); coppice, California Road, Abaco (Brace, 2047). 
EPIDENDRUM PRIMULINUM Batem. 
California Road, Abaco (Brace, 2059). Determined by R. A. 
Rolfe. 
PEPEROMIA OBTUSIFOLIA (L.) A. Dietr. 
Coppice, Eight Mile Bay, Abaco (Brace, 1876). The only 
species of the family yet known from the Bahamas. 
Ficus aurea Nutt. Sylva, 2: 4. Al. 43. 1846. 
Ficus sapotifolia Kunth & Bouché, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 17. 
1846. 
In Symb. Ant. 3: 460, Dr. Warburg, in his monograph of the 
West Indian figs, has brought these supposedly different species 
close together, but regards them as distinct, principally on the 
character of leaf-form, /. aurea being there described as with 
ovate obtusish leaves, 7. sapotifolia with elliptic to oblong acute 
leaves. Our seriesof specimens does not bear out these differences 
and I regard the two supposed species as one; the leaves vary to 
obovate. The tree iscommon in the Bahamas. Some of Nuttall’s 
type material of Ficus aurea, collected by Dr. Blodgett on Key 
West, Florida, has elliptic leaves acutish at both ends, just as 
figured by Nuttall. Dr. Warburg gives the date of Nuttall’s name 
as 1854, but it is really 1846. 
CoccoLoBIS UVIFERA L. 
A form of this widely distributed tree, with fruits less than half 
the size of the common one, is abundant on Inagua, its perfectly 
ripe *‘ grapes” often less than 1 cm. in diameter (Vash & Taylor, 
1226, 1055). 
Coccolobis bahamensis sp. nov. 
abrous shrub, 4 m. high or less. Leaves thin-coriaceous, 
elliptic to ovate or obovate-elliptic, obtuse to acutish at the apex, 
oe somewhat narrowed, or subcordate at the inequilateral base, 
4-7 ¢ ong, § cm. wide or less, the primary veins 6-8 on each 
