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Grand Turk (Wash & Taylor, 3834, type; 3837, 784r). O. 
Dillenié has stouter shorter dark-yellow or yellow-brown spines. 
O. Tuna has much shorter nearly terete spines. 
Limonium bahamense (Griseb.). 
Statice bahamensis Griseb. Fl. B. W. Ind. 389. 1861. 
Grand Turk (Mash & Taylor, 3882). Abundant in a salina. 
Originally collected by Hjalmarson in Turk’s Islands, perhaps at 
the identical locality. Our specimens are much larger than his, 
reaching 3 dm. in height. 
LUCUMA SERPENTARIA H. B. K. 
Coppice near Nassau, New Providence (2ritton & Brace, 8374) ; 
Deep Creek, Andros (Vorthrop, 703). 
Limnanthemum aureum sp. nov. 
ootstock 1 cm. thick, 3-4 cm. long. Stolons rather slender, 
purple-dotted, 2-3 dm. long, or ee bearing a petioled floating 
eaf and anu I es slende) pediec d yeaa at its summit but 
sepals oblong-lanceolate, acutish, 5-6 mm. long; corolla-segments 
about § mm. long, golden-yellow, their margins fimbriate; capsule 
ce elke as long as the sepals; style subulate, persistent, 2-3 
ong; seeds compressed- -globose, ad ae smooth, 1 mm. 
bead aaa about one half as thick as wi 
In a slightly brackish pond near Ccceoun, Great Exuma 
(Britton @ Millspaugh, 2974). Apparently nearest Z. Graya- 
num Griseb., of Cuba, which has larger flowers and leaves, sepals 
longer than the capsule, and tuberculate seeds. 
PLUMIERA BAHAMENSIS Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 387. 
The species is based on Ayggers 37978, from Acklin Island. It 
is represented in the Kew Herbarium by Brace g72, from Fortune 
Island; this specimen shows the follicle to be 10 cm. long, 1.2 
cm. wide, short-tipped. 
Metastelma inaguensis Vail, sp. nov. 
A glabrous ene ae Stems slender, terete; leaves oppo- 
site, 2-4 cm. long, 5-8 m wide, or on older stems fascicled at 
the ends of short modified Dies blades varying from obovate, 
