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aecinen parse sp. 
Sim oS. eae (L.) Torr., of the Atlantic Coast 
States aa ieee confused with it, but more slender than that spe- 
cies and with smaller white flowers. Plant 4 dm. high or less, the 
upper leaves narrowly linear, 1-3 cm. oe about 1 mm. wide, the 
lower spatulate, acute, 4 cm. long or less, 2-5 mm. wide, the basal 
ones spatulate to orbicular; calyx-lobes narrowly linear, less than 
long, tipped by the short style; stigmas narrowly spatulate. 
New Providence, in brackish marshes (Arztton, 58, type; 
Cooper, 53; Curtiss, 200; Coker, 74; Britton & Brace, 575); 
Andros (Northrop, 464) ; Cat Island ( Coker, 432). 
Plumiera Inaguensis sp. nov. 
A glabrous tree, 5 m. high or less. Leaves obovate, rather thin, 
the blade 6-10 cm. long, 4-6 cm. wide, emarginate or rounded at 
the apex, narrowed or cuneate at the base, dark green and ona 
above, bright green and dull beneath, the numerous veins diverging 
the upper surface, elevated beneath; petioles stout, 1-2 cm. long; 
peduncle stout, 4-10 cm. long; cyme compound, 8 cm. broad or 
calyx short-campanulate, slightly 5-lobed, the lobes broad, rounded ; 
corolla white, its tube slender, about 1 cm. long, its 5 lobes narrowly 
obovate, rounded or slightly anne somewhat longer than the 
tube; stamens about one-third the len ngth of the corolla-tube; fol- 
licles linear, terete, 9 cm. long, 8 1 mm. in diameter 
Salt Pond Hill, Inagua (Mesh & Taylor, o6o, — ; abundant 
on Inagua, being represented by nos. rz82 and z¢3o of the same 
collectors. 
BRACEA gen. nov. (APOCYNACEAE) 
hrub, with thick oblanceolate or oblong petioled leaves. 
a 
gradually dilated above, about as long as the 5 Opal, ovate lobes. 
Stamens 5, borne near the base of the corolla-tube; filaments short; 
anthers sagittate, hairy on the back. Follicles long-linear, slightly 
torulose. eeds comose. 
In honor of L. J. K. Brace, a diligent collector of the Bahamian 
ora. 
Bracea Bahamensis sp. nov. 
ut rm. high, with grayish brown branches leafy only near 
the ends, the young twigs pubescent. Leaves firm in texture, 
