(446 ) 
and impressed in the lower; petioles 2 mm. long; flowers in small 
clusters at the ends of the branches, green, glabrous, 3 mm. broad, 
on Leah 2 mm. ee calyx campanulate, 5-lobe , the lobes 
slightly le styles. 
Inagua, on Salt Pond Hill (Wash & Taylor, 962, type); Mou- 
jean Harbor, Little Inagua (Wash & Taylor, 1799). 
Corcuorus oLitorius L. 
Waste and cultivated soilon New Providence; naturalized (Brace, 
127, 202; Britton & Brace, 632). 
Sipa suPina L’Her. 
Waste grounds, New Providence (Britton & Brace, 659). 
SIDA sPINOsA L. 
Waste grounds, common on New Providence. WNaturalized from 
the United States. 
PARITIUM TILIACEUM (L.) Juss. 
Borders of swamp near Old Fort, New Providence, the only 
locality for this species observed on that island (&rzttoxn & Brace, 
710); known also from Andros (Northrop, 564). 
IsNARDIA NATANS (EIl.) Small. 
Frequent in wet sink holes and on borders of marshes, New 
Providence (Ziggers, 2339; Britton & Brace, 200). This appears 
to me as probably distinct from /. repens i ), DC., though the 
two are united by Grisebach in Fl. Br. W. I 
EUGENIA FILIFORMIS Macf. 
In the coppice at Waterloo, New Providence (&ritton & 
Brace, 762). Growing with £. confusa DC., and quite distinct 
from it, the narrowly lanceolate, very long-acuminate leaves being 
characteristic. Apparently identical with Jamaica specimens. 
EuGENIA RHOMBEA (Berg.) Kr. & Urb 
Frequent in scrub lands on Inagua (Nash & Taylor, 886, 948, 
1429). 
Opuntia Nashii sp. nov. 
Tree-like, dull green. Main axis round, 1-4 m. high, 5-12 
cm. in diameter, spiny; branches flat or becoming round below, 
the principal ones continuous, 1 m. 1 or m or 
° ore, 6 cm. wide 
less, crenate, blunt; lateral branches opposite or alternate, oblong 
to linear-oblong, often 3 dm. long, and 8 cm. wide, only about 6 
mm. thick, blunt, crenate; areoles 1-3 cm. apart, slightly elevated ; 
