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less, firm in texture, acute at both ends, or the apex tear faintly 
4-g-veined on each side of the mid-vein, which is rather prominent 
on the under side and impressed on the upper; peacles slender, 
1—1.5cm. long; cymes (?) axillary, few—several]- gaan their Be 
duncles much choter than the petioles; pedicels 1.5-3 
calyx oblong-campanulate in flower, 4 mm. long, its ae triangu- 
pr eat 1.5 mm. long; corolla-tube greenish-yellow, 9-13 
m. long, narrowly obconic, its lobes lanceolate, aearuate: pur- 
Bien: 4-5 mm. long, white-lanose within; stamens inserted high 
up on the tube of the corolla just below the lobes, the free part of 
the filament scarcely longer than the anther; berry blue-black, shin- 
ing, obovoid, about 12 mm. long, 5-6 mm. thick; fruiting calyx 
broadly obconic, loosely enclosing the narrowed base of the berry. 
Heretofore referred to C. pallidum Lam., the type locality of 
which is Jamaica, but clearly distinct from that species; abundant 
in coppice and scrub land. Abaco (Brace, 7521, 1567, 1770) ; 
Great Bahama (Britton & Millspaugh, 26037); Great Sturrup 
Cay, Berry Islands (@ritton & Milispaugh, 2267, type); New 
Providence (Brace, g6; Cooper, 60; Curtis, 121; Britton & 
Brace, 767; E. G. Britton, 3289); Andros (iVorthrop, 432). 
GERARDIA SPICIFLORA Engelm. Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist. 5: 227. 
1845. 
This plant is frequent on saline soil on New Providence, and has 
been recorded from the Bahamas as G. maritima Raf., from which 
it differs in becoming twice as tall, more slender and usually less 
fleshy ; its calyx-teeth are triangular and acute, rather than blunt as in 
G. maritima and the tube of the corolla is more slender; its seeds 
are one third smaller than those of G. maritima and their reticu- 
lations smaller. It ranges from the Bahamas to Cuba and through 
the Gulf States to Texas, its type locality (margins of brackish 
ponds, Galveston Island). 
Banamas: Abaco (Coker, 565); New Providence ( Coker, 300, 
Britton & Brace, 522); Andros (iVorthrop, 757, specimen im- 
perfect). 
Cuspa: Batabano (Shafer, 7¢2). 
Fioripa: (Chapman); Pine Island ( Zracy, 7607); Sanibel 
(ffitchcock, 245); near Appalachicola (Bulimore Herb., 24636) ; 
shore of Indian River (Curtiss, 5767); St. Mark’s (Rugec) ; 
Titusville (Mash, 2299). 
Mississippr: Breton Island (Lloyd & Tracy, 88). 
Texas: (Drummond). 
