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narrow and thin. We have specimens as follows: Abaco (Brace, 
1575); Little Galiot Cay (Britton & Milispaugh, 2845); Cave 
Cay (Brition & Millspaugh, 2833); Great Guana Cay (Britton 
& Méillspaugh, 2921, corolla yellowish within, 8 mm. broad) ; 
Inagua (Wash & Taylor, 1172, 1378); it occurs also on Fortune 
Island (Zggers, 38537), and this specimen has been included by 
rof. Urban in /. jamazcensts. 
Ipomora LITTORALIS (L.) Boiss. 
Running in sand, shore of Great Guana Cay, Exuma Chain 
(Britton & Millspaugh, 2918). Corolla pure white. 
Heliotropium diffusum sp. nov. 
Perennial by slender deep root. Stem slender, 4 cm. high or 
less, the branches diffusely spreading, very slender, longer than the 
stem, § cm. long or less, appressed-strigose; leaves linear, 3-4 mm 
long, about 1 mm. wide, sessile, acute, appressed-strigose; flowers 
white, minute, enclosed in the tufts of upper leaves; sepals lanceo- 
late to ovate-lanceolate, acute, about 2 mm. ri very hairy; ovary 
deeply 4-lobed ; ae 4-lobed, depressed, about 1 mm. wide, and 
about one half a high as wide, the very shen style capped by a 
broad ai ceed stigma. 
Moujean Harbor, Little Inagua, October 20, 1904 (Nash & 
Taylor, 1221). 
HxLioTRoPiuM NANUM Northrop. 
Originally described from specimens collected at Red Bays, An- 
dros, this interesting little species occurs abundantly in the sandy 
‘white land” at the Race Course, west of Nassau (Britton & 
Brace, 277), also in similar soil on Little Harbor Cay, Berry 
Islands (Britton & Millspaugh, 2238). 
Heliotropium Schiied sp. nov. 
A low shrub, 5~20 cm. high, intricately much-branched, very 
densely appressed- ee all over with nearly white hairs. 
Leaves opposite, ascending or appressed, lanceolate or oblong- 
ee ca 
long, its 5 ovate acute lobes about 1 mm. long, spreading; stam 
nearly sessile on the corolla-tube below the middle; style es 
short, stout; stigma 4-lobe 
Canfield Bay to Cabbage Pond, Inagua (Wash & Taylor, 1293, 
type); white lands, Tenados, Inagua (ask & Taylor, 1033). 
