(451) 
or emarginate on the same branchlet, smooth and shining above 
puberulent and reticulate-veined beneath ; inflorescence of axillary 
racemes, the flowers sessile or nearly so, the bracts minute, acumi- 
nate; calyx glabrous, long-campanulate, the border either truncate, 
slightly denticulate or variously lobed in the same raceme, about half 
the length of the corolla; corolla glabrous exteriorly, hairy in the 
tube and throat, the lobes small, orbicular, constricted at the base; 
pyrenae 4 x 6 mm., dark slate color, crateriform, the apex erose. 
Leaves 7-10 cm. x 2-4 cm.; racemes 6-9 cm. long; flowers 1 
cm. long. 
Type from a coppice on Farringdon Road (Lritton & Brace, 
233); coastal coppice at South West Bay, New Providence (Britéon 
& Brace, 499). 
Lycium spathulifolium sp. nov. 
A glabrous shrub, 1.3 m. high or less, with long slender one 
branches, some of the twigs tipped by spines 2-4 mm. long, t 
bark gray. Leaves 2-4 toge ether at the nodal cushions, or soli- 
few, solitary; peduncle filiform, 5 mm. long, gradually thickened 
above; calyx campanulate, 2-2.5 mm. long, somewhat scurfy, its 
teeth broadly ovate, obtuse, whitish-lanate; corolla funnelform, 
aie its tube +53 mm. long, its 4 oblong obtusish lobes two thirds 
s long as the t 
In coppice, Used Savannah, Inagua (Wash & Taylor, 1322). 
PHYSALIS BarBADENSsIS Jacq. 
Waste ground, Ft. Charlotte, New Providence (@ritton & Brace, 
777)- 
RUELLIA TUBEROSA L. 
Wet ground, Lake Cunningham (Britton & Brace, 633). Not 
reported from the Bahamas by Lindau in his monograph of West 
Indian Acanthaceae (Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 191). 
Psychotria Bahamensis Millsp., sp. nov. 
Shrubby, glabrous. Leaves thin, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 
broadest at or above ‘the middle, narrowed to a point at the apex 
and to the petiole, slightly pilose beneath, especially along the mid- 
rib; stipules large, or rbicular, dimidiate-sheathing, apiculate; in- 
flore escence paniculate, 4-chotomous, exceeded by the leaves; 
pedicels blepharose at the axils; calyx shallow-cupuliform, hairy- 
fringed above, with 5 short, deltoid, hairy teeth; corolla-tube gla- 
brous without, bearded in a ring at the insertions of the filaments 
within, lobes 5, elliptic, acute, “strongly deflexed, nearly as long 
