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spines mostly 5 at each areole (2-5), divergent, slender, straight, 
light gray, pungent, pe longer 3-5 cm. long; glochides very small, 
brownish; ovary 3 cm. long, 1.5 cm. thick, somewhat clavate, 
tubercled, the ede: bearing areoles and spines similar to those 
of the joints, but the spines somewhat shorter; flowers 1 
broad when expanded, red; petals broadly oval to obovate, biane, 
about 8 mm. long, much longer than the stamens. 
Inagua (ash & Taylor, 1063). Apparently to be referred to 
the section Cruciformes, asa relative of O. sfzxostssima Mill., the 
type locality of which is Jamaica. 
PLATYCARPA Small, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 432. 
Infresh water marshes and sink holes, New Providence ( Curtiss, 
i44; Britton & Brace, 515). The same as the plant of southern 
Florida. 
HypRocoTyYLe spicaTa Lam 
Among grass, edge of a garden, near Nassau (Lritton & 
Brace, 792). 
Bumelia loranthifolia (Pierre) Britton. 
Bumelia retusa loranthifolia Pierre; Pierre & Urban, Symb. 
Ant. 5: 145. 1904. 
I take this up as specifically distinct from the Jamaican B. retusa 
Sw. It is very abundant on New Providence, the type locality 
(Zggers, 4228; Curtiss, 85; Coker, 20,156; Brace, 715; PBrit- 
ton, 44, 88; Britton & Brace, 283, 290, 315,351, 538), and is 
known also from several of the other islands. Its leaves vary 
greatly in size on individual bushes from 2 cm. to 4 cm. long, and 
from obovate-cuneate to nearly orbicular. Its fruit is jet black, 
shining, oblong to globose, 12 mm. long or less; the pedicels are 
not more than twice as long as the lowers; flowers white, fragrant. 
Bumelia Bahamensis sp. nov. 
A. shrub with slender puberulous twigs, related to &. loranthi- 
folta, Leaves spatulate-oblanceolate, coriaceous, revolute-mar- 
gined, 8 cm. long or less, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide, rounded at the apex, 
narrowly cuneate at the Pe. dull green and plabrous above, densely 
brown-tomentulose beneath, rather strongly pinnately veined, the 
veins ascending at a narrow angle; petioles stout, 5 mm. long or 
furaceous, stout, 8-ro mm. long, three times as long as the calyx. 
Coastal thicket, Delaport, New Providence (Brittoz d& Brace, 
295). 
