( 141) 
not regard the northern and southern forms of the species as dis- 
tinct. As seen by me on New Providence the calyx and pedicels 
are red or scarlet (Britton & Brace, 479). J agree with Mr. 
Rehder in considering the Cuban and South Florida plant the same, 
having collected it in both regions; our Cuban specimens are from 
the vicinity of Matanzas (Rugel, 657; Britton & Wilson, 63), 
and Batabano (Shafer, 228). 
Myroxylon bahamense sp. nov. 
An intricately branched shrub or small tree 4 m. high or less, the 
trunk and larger limbs densely armed with branched spines 5 cm. 
long or less. Wood yellowish-white, very hard and dense; twigs 
armed with subulate spines 1.5 cm. long or less; leaves ovate or 
oblong to oblanceolate, coriaceous, 6-7 long, scarcely shin- 
ing above, dull and pal reen beneath than above, entire or with 
1 to 4 blunt teeth, the apex acute, the base rounded or narrowed, 
the petiole about 1 mm. long; fruit obovoid-oblong, obtuse, 6 mm. 
long, 3 mm. in diameter. 
Great Bauama: Scrub lands, Eight Mile Rocks (Britton & 
Millspaugh, 2430, type); same locality (Brace, 3697, 3772, 
3736). Asaco: (Coker, 562); Marsh Harbor (Brace, — 
Cherokee Sound (Brace, 1972). New PRovIDENCE: ( 
Britton, 3405). 
Myroxylon ilicifolium (Northrop) (Xylosma tlicifolia North- 
rop, Mem. Torrey Club 12: 51, fd. 72), differs in having larger 
leaves distinctly shining above, the teeth and apex pungently 
pointed, and the fruit globose; it is abundant in coppices on 
New Providence and occurs also on Andros, but is not yet known 
from either the northern or the southern Bahamas. 
aoa lucayana sp. nov. 
Related to O. Dilleniiand O. Tuna and growing with them. 
olive-green, slightly lustrous, more or less crenate, about 1.5 cm 
thick, knobbed at the areoles; areoles distant, nearly 1 cm. broad, 
white-velvety; glochides numerous, yellow, 6 mm. long or less, 
mostly borne at the upper margins of the areoles; spines 3-8 a 
less; flowers yellow, 7-8 cm. broad; stamens about half as long 
as the petals; ovary narrowly pyriform, 4-5 cm - long, its upper 
areoles bearing 1-3 su ubulate pale-yellow spines 2.5 cm. long or less 
hich are sometimes persistent on the fruit; berry pyriform, 5-6 
cm. long, 2-3 cm. in diameter. 
