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BernarpiaA BernarpiaA (L.) Britton; Coker in Shattuck, Ba- 
hama Islands, 257. 1905. 
Fortune Island (Brace, 458); Tarpum Bay, Eleuthera ( Cozer, 
405)- 
Securineca AcipoTHAMNUS (Griseb.) Muell. Arg. 
Mangrove Cay ( Coker, 225); coppice near Southwest Landing, 
New Providence (Britton & Brace, 475; Britton, 3332) ; common 
in scrub-lands on Great Exuma (Britton & Millspaugh, 2958). 
Inex CassineE L. 
Swampy palmetto lands, Barnett’s Point, Great Bahama (£rit- 
ton & Millspaugh, 2683). 
AYENIA PUSILLA L. 
In red land, Haynes’ Road, Great Exuma (&retton & Mills- 
paugh, 3027); Cat Island (A/ztchcock). Rare in the Bahamas. 
Hibiscus bahamensis sp. nov. 
A shrub, the sori calyx, peduncles and ae | and finely 
stellate- pena Leaves ovate in outline, palmately veined, 
10 cm. long or sue firm in texture, cordate ae at the base, 
3-lobed or 5-lobed with the middle lobe much the longest and 
acuminate, the lateral lobes acute or obtuse, irregularly dentate; 
upper leaves varying to lanceolate, and merely dentate; petioles as 
long as the rae or shorter ; peduncles stout, solitary in the axils, 
longer than g petioles, jointed n ear the middle; bractlets 
oe acuminate, very unequal, the longer about 1.5 cm. 
long; calyx 2-2.5 ¢ m. long, densely stellate-pubescent, Z paaee 
lobes strongly veined, acuminate; petals brownish, . long, 
densely pubescent without, oblanceolate, obtusish; eae oval, 
2.5 cm. long, 2 cm. thick, ‘densely si silky. 
California Road, Abaco (Brace, 2042, type); Nicol’s Town, 
Andros (Northrop, 397); Tarpum Bay, Eleuthera (Coker, goz). 
Related to the Cuban A. eryptocarpus Rich., and referred to that 
species by Mrs. Northrop. 
SIDA HEDERAEFOLIA Cav 
Roadside, Eight Mile Rocks, Great Bahama (Britton & Mills- 
paugh, 2495). 
PASSIFLORA LUNATA Willd. 
Pigeon Cay, Abaco (Brace, 1664); Great Cistern, Abaco 
(Brace, 1762); New Providence (Brace, 487). 
PASSIFLORA PECTINATA Griseb. 
A long vine trailing in sandy soil or climbing on shrubs, the 
