( 452) 
as the tube; fruit ellipsoidal; pyrenae plano-convex, 5 x 4 mm., 
5-ridged, the ridges flattened, equidistant; albumen flat at nee com- 
missure. 
Leaves light green beneath, dark above, 8-12 x 2-4 cm., the 
main veins brick red beneath; near P. unxdata Jacq., from which it 
differs especially in the hairy calyx, the hairyness of the midveins 
beneath, the stipules, and the pyrenae. Type from a coppice on the 
Farringdon Road, Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas, Aug. 24, 
1904 (Britton & Brace, 206); same locality (Brétton & Brace, 
208); coppice at Winton (Aritton & Brace, 662); pine ie 
Blue Hill Road (@rztton, 17) ; and Nassau, March 2, 1903 (#. S$ 
Flarle, 43, 52). 
Scolosanthus Bahamensis sp. nov. 
An intricately branched, somewhat resinous shrub, 8 din. high or 
less, with gray-brown bark, the young twigs greenish, densely 
papillose, 4-angled, armed with slender, scattered, pungent, peel 
1 cm. long or less. Leaves opposite or fascicled, 2- 
long, thick, papillose, ovate to elliptic, revolute-margined, oases 
very short-petioled, dark green above, paler beneath; flowers not 
seen; fruits solitary, ablone to globose, white, soft, 2-4 mm. long. 
Occasional in the coppices on New Providence (Britton & 
Brace, from coppice along Village Road, 3767, type; coppice, 
Coker, 138); Fresh Creek, Andros (orthrop, 646). 
In Mem. Torrey Club, 12: 67, Mrs. Northrop has given a de- 
scription of this interesting species, not named there, however. 
ERITHALIS ODORIFERA Jacq. 
Common in coppices on New Providence, and distinct from the 
more abundant ££. fruticosa L., being much taller, the corolla 
twice as large as in that species, the fruit and persistent calyx-limb 
larger (Britton, 147; Coker, 43; Britton & Brace, 234, 580, 
605). 
GaLiuM HISPIDULUM Michx. 
Pine lands, occasional on New Providence (race, 330; Britton 
& Brace, 429); Abaco (Coker, 563); Andros (Northrop, 523, 
reported as Galium hypocarpium Endl., which is Jamaican, in- 
habiting high mountain woods). The Bahama plant is identical 
with that of the southeastern states. 
Iva IMBRICATA Walt. 
Frequent on sandy beaches in the Bahamas. New Providence 
